Hello,
on Thursday we are facing discussions, what will be the future of Sharepoint development in the company I work. Our department of the company has 200 people – not all would need Sharepoint though. Â (For the note we have Sharepoint Online (2013).
There are basically two ways:
- Use only the tools provided in web and in sharepoint designer. No code editing, no javascript, no programming. And rely fully on what was built. Everything we can not do with this approach would be moved to programmers department to do it somewhere else in their way.
- For the beginning write and use javascript modifications: for content query, for lists, for design purposes maybe. In the future consider starting to modify aspx code, hire a programmer and modify the Sharepoint to specific needs.
What is your view at this topic? Dont you consider “clicking” possibilities too low? For what purposes do you use Sharepoint in your company? What skills do people have to work with Sharepoint?
The pool would be nice here.
Hello Jan
Nice discussion topic – be lovely to hear some feedback from others. I work for Collaboris and we are an ISV selling a product (called DocRead for SharePoint) that integrates with SharePoint. Due to this, I do a lot of demonstrations and speak to a lot of customers in the course of a week, which gives some insight into how they use SharePoint. Tbh many of them don’t have in house development teams and are struggling to get to grips with it. Many utilise the services of consulting companies to initially set-up SharePoint but are then left to customise it with little or no training. As you can imagine, this is an uphill struggle for a lot of them. I think this is why communities (such as this) are very invaluable so that Power Users can get advice from others.
