i’m trying to set up a sharepoint site for a technical research project – using a set of folders for each group of users containing lists of ideas for new tasks, project plans for existing tasks, descriptions of tasks, results, published findings – and for everybody to access a discussion area, a literature area and an area for meetings output (all these in MS-Office applications, PPT, WORD, EXCEL)
What I would like is a tool that can be used by anybody in the project to generate an automated report of the project status, where the user can select content from a list of the contents described above)…wd be great if they could click a tick list of content and then have an automatically generated report summarising the content they asked for…
this could be done if all the documents used hyperlinks, but think this would be painful to implement for everyone… anyone done aything like this in sharepoint before and if so how?…if not, why not and any suggestions on how you might go about it?
thanks
turns out i’m using the cloud based sp2013, so not sure if book will be as relevant as 1st thought, but think my current knowledge level (close to zero) will almost certainly be enhanced from reading it…
thanks again for your help – very grateful etc – l have to say i love this SP community user group site as have always found people on here to be extremely helpful + forthcoming with good suggestions…
k.r. Dave
Glad my recommendation was Helpful, Dave. Even though we went from SP2007 to SP2013, I still found Dux’s book helpful!
thanks robin, your tip looks like a good call – thanks very much – am very pleased about it etc – i’ve checked the info out and found a copy of the dux raymond sy o reilly book “sharepoint for project management”. looking through the contents it seems to focus on the issues i’m interested in and i found a used copy going for a £4 (roughly $6-7) – i like the o-reilly books anyway as they seem to explain stuff very well without having to read bulky pages of anecdotes etc
the version of sharepoint i’m using is not exactly known yet – after 3 months waiting for it, the software is going to be set up for me sometime today (i hope)
many thanks again, best regards to you, Dave
David, what version of SharePoint are you using, first of all?
I’m thinking that Dux Raymond Sy’s Project Management in SP 2010 book covers something similar.
