Win-an-eBook Wednesdays is a small three day contest that we hold every week. The Prize? An O’reilly eBook for your choice! Furthermore, if you win, you also get the chance to ask the community whatever question you want and be the judge for next week’s contest!
The only thing you have to do to enter is answer the following question: What is your proudest accomplishment involving SharePoint and why?
This week’s judge is Stephanie Cole, winner of last week’s contest (She got a free Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference eBook)
Stephanie’s Comments:
Answers for this could range from setting up an environment/site for a worthy cause, figuring out a really elegant solution to a code problem, making progress learning SharePoint as a beginner, writing a book, whitepaper or popular blog post, persuading Management to adopt it at one’s company, passing a certification exam, helping a team member get started… the possibilities are endless and could apply to any aspect of SharePoint life.
You have until Friday 19th (10pm GMT) to answer this question!
PS: And guess what, answering this discussion also gives you points for being “top member” and winning the SPDocKit contest!
I think I am most proud of the solution I created to allow a purchasing department to go paperless. The purchase orders were handled using an MRP system built on jBase, which you’re lucky to find much current information on how to deal with it in a modern language like C#. I used Reporting Services to generate PDF copies of the purchase orders. I then pulled in PDF copies of AutoCAD and Solidworks drawings to attach to the PO for the machine shop to reference. If you need to do some PDF work, I HIGHLY recommend iTextSharp (.NET port of a popular open source PDF library.) The solution then handled emailing the PDF to the machine shop or to an email-to-fax gateway.
This project was a game changer at that company. The jBase system was notorious for being difficult for anyone but the veteran personnel to use. All purchase orders were being printed then faxed to machine shops. File cabinets catalogued all of those printed purchase orders. Going paperless on that lone process saved all of that space and introduced an easier way to search through those POs. It was the first SharePoint project at that company and also helped drive adoption because it created a few champions.
