Play before you download
Last week I did an in-depth view of the new Team Room template that Microsoft put out. Jason posted an entry that there was a new one today called the Team Work Site which I promptly downloaded. As I was setting it up on my Application Template Playground, I noticed it was surprising similar to the Team Room template. In fact, its the same. Seems they’ve rebranded it the Team Work Site, but otherwise it’s exactly the same as the Team Room template. Very odd and I have no clue what the brain spark for the renaming would be (right hand, meet left hand syndrome?)
Anywho, I’ve updated the playground page (a place you can try out the templates online without having to install them yourself) and included the 3 new ones. Check out The Team Room, Document Library, and Discussion Database site templates (yes, the last two are site templates, not list templates just in case you installed it and couldn’t find it).
As before, there’s a guest account that anyone can use (please don't abuse it or I’ll have to come to your house and stain your carpets) to contribute to any of the sites. From any of the sites you can sign-in with the following information:
User name: sharepoint.bilsimser.com\spguest (sometimes just spguest works too)
Password: SharePoint1
This will give you contributor access to any of the sites so you can add/edit any content on them. Also to note, there’s a small little “feature” on the home page (in the bottom right) of each of these three sites called Related Sites. I guess the idea is that all three site templates (or four or whatever, I’m so confused now) are meant to work together so I’ve hooked them up to each other and you can bounce back and forth between them if you’re so inclined (without having to flip back up to the main site then drill down again). Note that I haven’t gone in and fixed any of the InfoPath templates as it’s just too much work but if you’re having problems using the templates on your own site, just fire me off an email and I’ll see if I can help.
Another post with BlogJet. Gotta love it for my Gonzo blogging style, but I keep launching my browser and going to the site to post. It’s only after I get the text box loaded up I think, “Oh yeah, I should use BlogJet” and then do. I’ll get used to it.