Books

Content Type Book Corrections

David Gerhardt — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:22:56 GMT

I would like to thank everyone who has purchased our book Building Content Type Solutions in SharePoint 2007 (all three of you ☺). In a previous lifetime, I was a copy editor at a daily newspaper. That experience helped me to notice a few things that were slightly "off" when re-reading my own work. So, in an effort to bring you the highest quality of reading material, I want to point out the following corrections in the first printing:

Page 48, first paragraph, ninth line - It should read "The New Site Column page allows you to define a site column...". The "to" is missing. I know that is a picky catch, but I am a picky person.
Page 55, second line of the note - The name of the Office Word 2007 document template that is available at http://www.courseptr.com/downloads is Performance_Appraisal.docx. Note the "_" character between "Performance" and "Appraisal".
Page 89, first paragraph, fourth line - It should read "...which will be displayed in the date picker content control...". The AppraisalDate column is mapped to a date picker content control, not a plain text content control.
Page 122, first paragraph, third line - It should read "...can contain a hard-coded link to the appraiser document library...". In the email message body, we provide a link to the library, not the appraisal document.

Hopefully, these and other minor errors will be cleaned up in subsequent book printings.

In the Can

David Gerhardt — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:54:51 GMT

No, I am not in the bathroom (or potty, as my kids like to say). The book that Kevin Martin and I have been working on, Building Content Type Solutions in SharePoint 2007, is in the can (i.e., it shipped yesterday). So, if you have ever created or thought about creating document-centric SharePoint solutions, you might want to add this book to your holiday shopping list. If anything, it should be a great bedtime read for young ones. :-)

I am grateful to everyone who helped or offered to help with this project. I especially want to thank Jen Blaney (our editorial assistant at Charles River Media), Marta Justak (our project editor), and Stacia Misner (our technical editor). Without them, none of this would have been possible.

Update on the Content Types Book

David Gerhardt — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:29:24 GMT

Last month I provided a teaser about the book I am writing with Kevin Martin (a 3Sharp colleague) titled Building Content Type Solutions in SharePoint 2007. We are in the final editing stages now and should be completely done in the next few weeks. If all goes well, I will have a flier to pass out at SharePoint Connections for those interested. The chapter titles (which may be subject to change) are as follows:

What Is a Content Type?
Included Content Types
Site Columns
Document Template
Document Information Panel
Workflows
Information Management Policies and Document Conversions
Out-of-the-Box Solution Walkthrough
Automating the Performance Appraisal Solution
Completing and Deploying the Appraisal Process

The last mile is always the most difficult...

Building Content Type Solutions in SharePoint

David Gerhardt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:20:00 GMT

For the past few months Kevin Martin (a 3Sharp colleague) and I have been writing a book titled Building Content Type Solutions in SharePoint 2007. The book is a step-by-step walkthrough for building a performance appraisal solution with a SharePoint content type. It takes an approach similar to the one I used last year when writing about the time-off request solution, but with much more detail and a couple of chapters devoted to programmatic enhancements. The book is scheduled to be published later this year by Charles River Media. I will be providing more details on this site in the next month or so as we put the finishing touches on the book. Stay tuned...