Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Don't get me wrong: I like SharePoint a lot, but there are some small details that could be improved (in my humble opinion).

• Adaptive User Interface
  By default there is a link to all operations for a specific Webpart, even if you don't have rights to perform that operation. For example, if you have a Document Library in which only Site Administrators can upload documents, you can choose the “Add new document“ link, select a file, and press “Save and close“. It's only after you've clicked the “Save and close“ link, that you get a prompt to login with another user or an error message. So there's no visual indication that your current account doesn't have enough rights, you're notified after you've filled out the complete form. In my opinion it would be nice if those links weren't available if you don't have the appropriate rights.
• Alerts for a complete site
  Sometimes I want to add an alert for all the Webparts that are on a SharePoint site (e.g. Discussions and Announcements). There's no option to create an alert for more than one Webpart at a time, you have to add an alert for each Webpart individually. As a developer I thought: “Ok, no big deal, I'll create a small tool that does this for me!“. So I checked the Alerts web service, but there's no method to create alerts!

I guess I'm not the only one who has noticed these things, so maybe in the next version ... :-)