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  • Automatically provisioning lists that use the qDiscussion web part

    A few months ago I shared my excitement about the new Discussion web part from Quest [ link ]. To recap, customers switching from the Notes discussions (in the Discussion template, QuickPlaces, Team Rooms, or custom applications) to the SharePoint’s standard Discussion Board template have a few nasty problems: The user interface is quite different: No twistees, No threaded tree-view, like you had in Notes. Instead you view the parent documents in a flat view and then you open a page that shows the entire thread. Only the top-level documents have subject lines. If your Notes users entered unique subjects on the response documents (I know I always did – in many cases I typed my entire thought in the subject line and left the body blank), then you have data loss! Quest’s qDiscussion web part solves...
  • Automated provisioning of custom templates that use Quest Web Parts for SharePoint

    Notes Migrator for SharePoint is great at provisioning lists, libraries or even entire SharePoint sites from your custom templates. This is incredibly useful when migrating lots of custom Notes applications that are based on the same Notes template (or at least share a common design). For example, I have one customer who has 10,000 team sites based on a completely customized Notes template and is migrating them to 10,000 SharePoint sites based on a highly customized site template. Now that’s code reuse! Quest’s Web Parts for SharePoint product is one great way to build those custom application templates. As described previously [ link ] this tool has been very popular for companies wanting to “replatform” their custom Notes applications because the web parts help to reproduce much of the functionality...
  • Final feature list for Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.2

    RTM on Monday. Very exciting! This release of Notes Migrator for SharePoint includes the following new features: Generate Word 2007 documents Notes Migrator for SharePoint now generates Word 2007 (DOCX) documents from Notes Rich Text documents. Notes documents can be formatted as generic Word documents or documents based on custom Word templates. In addition to mapping Note rich text to the document body, you can map various Notes data items to the properties and content controls of your template. For detailed information on how to use this feature, please see Generating Word 2007 Documents in the User Guide. You can also see a preview of this feature in action on the product manager’s blog here: http://notes2sharepoint.org/archive/2009/04/25/sneak-preview-generating-microsoft-word-documents...
  • Webcast: Migrating Complex Notes Apps with Quest Web Parts for SharePoint

    Here is a web recording of migrating complex applications to SharePoint using Notes Migrator for SharePoint and then rapidly rebuilding the complex functionality using Quest's Web Parts for SharePoint: http://www.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?contentid=9604 . You can see the complete set of Notes integration/migration demos at www.quest.com/notesdemos . Read More...
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