NYC SharePoint User Group

5/7/2008  5:30 PM – Microsoft Office – 1290 6^th Ave. (51^st/52^nd)

NEXT NYC SHAREPOINT USER GROUP: Wednesday, May 7

Paul Gavin & Natalya Voskresenskaya will present on

"Using Content Query Web Part to Solve Business Problems"

MOSS 2007’s Content Query Web Part (CQWP) enables users to create custom views of data queried from many sources, and present that data in one place. Despite its powerful query and content refinement options, CQWP is often an underrated and overlooked feature. CQWP is both a “data extraction engine” (find documents or list items anywhere in a site collection) and also a first-class presentation tool that enables users to control how content is presented by wrapping HTML and styles to format the display nearly any way you wish.

In this demo-heavy session, we will show how to use the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) to solve business problems by showing off core features:
- Use default CQWP features, including audience targeting.
- Use CQWP as a reporting tool anywhere in a site collection via filter criteria such as “all documents created today”.
- Change look and feel of query results to highlight business data, show additional columns of information, display information in a grid format, and others.
- Show how CQWP can aid in content type administration (e.g. find all documents of a particular content type so as to understand potential impact of changing a CT definition).
- Describe some limitations of CQWP.
- Provide a list of resources for advanced CQWP techniques, including blogs, ECQWP Codeplex project and MSDN documentation.

Paul Gavin (MCP, MCTS, MCAD) is a Solutions Architect for Conchango & has been working professionally in the IT consulting world since 1991. He works in the collaboration group that uses SharePoint to deliver business solutions and has found that SharePoint’s horizontal nature leads to many exciting opportunities for systems management, integration, BPI and more. SharePoint is a solution architect’s dream platform.

Natalya Voskresenskaya (MCTS) is a SharePoint Architect at Conchango and has been working in the IT field for the past 10 years. Natalya has a diverse professional experience in a wide range of markets including media publishing, online crime news, digital music world, corporate law & consulting. With experience in design, architecture, development & deployment of Web based applications, Natalya has been dedicated to developing portal solutions since the early days of 2000. She has been working with SharePoint technologies since the 2003 version and is passionate about this technology. Natalya hopes that sharing her experience will help people see how they can get the best use out of the SharePoint platform.

The meeting will start at 5:30 p.m. with an opportunity to network with your colleagues in other companies and free food compliments of Certeon.

For immediate registration: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=127705

For additional information, directions & other details, visit the NYC SPUG website: http://www.sharepointusergroup.org/newyork/default.aspx

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The sponsors for the May 7 meeting include:

Networking/Food:    Certeon

Speaker Gift:            CorasWorks

Door Prizes:             NGenious Solutions & Certeon
After Meeting Social: CorasWorks