Some SharePoint Requests ...

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 ... :-)

2 Comments

  • I completely agree with you on this! My hope is that these issues get addressed in v3. I suspect with the moving of WebParts to the core ASp.NET 2.0 plumbing WSS will be rearchitected and have some interesting features currently missing! I'm also hoping MS changes the way VS.NET can author to included non-isolated. I'd also like to see the ability to use the AD/AM directory ina FORMS based authentication scenario with WSS. Of course a native RSS/Atom option for all content would also be high on my shopping list for a WSS 2.1 feature! And I too get frustrated with the lack of alert capability on content posted to the main page. They should have included a 'whats new' WebPart which I once saw MikeFit demo in a web cast but it was never posted to www.gotdotnet.com as he mentioned it would be.. etc etc

  • I totally agree! I would love to be able to set up one alert for each of our team's sites.



    I'd also like to be able to (as an administrator) add alerts for other users.

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