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| Name: | Teresa |
| City/Country: | Austin, USA |
| Question: | Does Sharepoint 2010 act as an EDMS repository if you use a SQL database for thousands of documents? Or is SharePoint only connecting you to a third party EDMS that you have to purchase? (We have a third party EDMS that we do NOT want to use). We are wondering if we can use SharePoint as our repository (with our underlying SQL database). |
| Date: | 3 November 2010 |
| Answer: | Yes, SharePoint is an EDMS and you don't have to connect it to a third party EDMS systems. In SharePoint all the content - documents etc. is stored within it's own SQL Server database. So there is no need for any other system to store and retrieve documents.
SharePoint 2010 has all the capabilities as EDMS system and also it's very flexible when it comes to extensibility. You can easily develop or purchase different solutions to extend existing SharePoint functionality if out of the box features is not enough for your requirements.
An example could be scanning documents and automatically put them to SharePoint document repository. This functionality is not a part of default feature set, but I have personally seen several SharePoint applications on the market that do this functionality.
Regarding thousands of documents - SharePoint 2010 seems to be better in terms of performance than SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) and also when it comes to the document storage it's the question of SQL Server performance and how much space do you have on your SQL Server side.
If you want to you could still display and index your external SQL database data through SharePoint too. Using Business Data Connectivity services which is a part of SharePoint features. |
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| Name: | Gwen |
| City/Country: | Perth, Australia |
| Question: | Do the site templates for Document Center, Basic Search Center, and Records Center come as a standard with SharePoint Foundation 2010. These templates are accessible from SPF, but I got an error when trying to create a Document Center? |
| Date: | 8 September 2010 |
| Answer: | The site templates you have mentioned - Document Center, Basic Search Center, and Records Center - are the part of SharePoint 2010 Server Standard and SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites Standard.
For more details you can have a look at the following post: SharePoint 2010 Site Templates. |
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| Name: | siddiqali |
| City/Country: | Vijayawada, India |
| Question: | How to apply CSS in 2010 SharePoint Web Parts? |
| Date: | 14 August 2010 |
| Answer: | If the question is about custom CSS in custom Web Parts then the answer is as follows:
- Place your custom CSS file to the _LAYOUTS/1033/STYLES folder. Suggestion is to use a solution to deploy this custom CSS file properly. Here you could read about some details when creating VS 2010 solutions for SharePoint.
- In your Web Part code in CreateChildControls you do the following:
CssLink linkToCss = new CssLink();
linkToCss.DefaultUrl = "/_LAYOUTS/1033/STYLES/name of your custom CSS file";
this.Page.Header.Controls.Add(linkToCss);
That should add a reference to your CSS file in the page header when the Web Part will be rendered.
- Use your CSS class throughout your Web Part and enjoy.
There was a discussion about a similar question here. Please have a look for more details.
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| Name: | Alpesh Ranchordas |
| City/Country: | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Question: | In the farm scenario for SharePoint 2010, what services to activate for which server? |
| Date: | 04 August 2010 |
| Answer: | WFE - MS SharePoint Foundation Incoming Email, MS SharePoint Foundation Web Application, MS SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service
Everything else - App Server.
Search Query and Site Settings Service on all query servers. If you think it is becoming memory consuming - move it to a dedicated server.
SharePoint Foundation Search - any server. |
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