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Part I: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007
Explorer View is not available.
Multiple File Upload is not available.
Web Discussions may not function correctly in early versions of Firefox but does work with
limited support in later versions. In the case of Firefox, you will need to hand-code the HTML
within the discussion. See Chapter 11 for a solution.
Date Picker Control. Used to select a date to insert into a text field. You must manually enter
the date.
Slide Library is not available.
Excel Web Access. You will be unable to sort or filter Pivot tables.
Open in Excel is not available.
Open Snapshot is not available.
Sorting and filtering in Excel Services is not available.
Rich Text is available but is read only. If you try to edit the text you will lose all the formatting.
A workaround is available and is discussed in Chapter 1 1 .
Generally speaking, any web browser that does not support ActiveX will result in a degrading of
SharePoint features.
Changing Minds with SharePoint
You might be wondering why I have added this section, but one of the issues I have
come across is getting people to change the way they think about information and
documents in general. Everyone is used to owning documents and information, and
sometimes they are reluctant to share this information. You may be unaware of many of
the legal guidelines required in today’s business world with regard to information and
see the use of records management and information management policies as an
additional burden. Often people tend to resist the use of software such as SharePoint
because of the initial burden it places on an already busy business work environment.
Individuals are creatures of habit, and it can be difficult to change how someone saves
a file if for the past two decades they have saved it into My Documents on the PC.
Users need to be convinced of the benefits of change and this, again, can be difficult.
It can also be difficult to actually get different business divisions to share information.
Again, it is viewed as the personal property of the area concerned. It can be hard to get
different areas to adopt, for example, the same Word templates when dealing with
customers. Every area wants its own identity within a corporate identity.
Just as with any major computer - related project, it s important that you provide your input to the
SharePoint development teams. At the end of the day, software is supposed to help you, not the other
way around. If it makes it harder for you to do your job, then something somewhere has failed and
usually it s down to people.
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