Hey Guys,
Looks like WSS can do lot of stuff out of box that I was looking for, except for four things, for which I need help from Gurus:
1. Inline [browser] Editing of Documents [without using the Office applications]. I don't want to allow users to download documents.
2. Relationship between Documents [I want to create Master document and its supporting docs] and to change the status of all the related documents to "Pending Approval", if any of the document is modified.
3. How to store the "Computer Name" of the User who is creating or editing the document
4. How to send alerts through SMS, other than by Email We want to use ClickATell for sending SMS.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanx & Regards,
Deep
How to do this in WSS 3.0?
ChrisVienna
We have been doing a lot of work on SMS-integration of alerts. The problem is that there is currently no way (or at least no documented way) to divert the generated alerts to somewhere else than email, since the WSS2 "delivery channel" method is no longer supported in WSS3.
A quick way around this problem is to use some email-to-sms service, and then edit the alerttemplates.xml to format the content of the alert. One could also tinker with the SMTP, grabbing the emails coming out of sharepoint and doing something based on them.
To do it properly, we had to create our own solution that replaces the sharepoint email sending. We scan the SPchange log for changes, compare this with the users' alert subscriptions, apply some rules to make sure this is what the user wants, and then spawn the messages. We developed this as a web service that creates a list of phone numbers with messages, and a timer job to poll the service and send the messages to the SMS provider (using their web services interface).
This is now in beta, if you are interested please drop me an email: pauli - at - addwit - dot - com
Regards
Pauli Visuri
BigOldSofty
Hi Ishai,
How would you solve problem No. 4 using MOSS 2007 In SPS 2003 we had the DeliveryChannel class for such development, but in this release we have not found that.
Great article from Patrick Tisseghem about SPS 2003 custom alert channels:
Building Custom Alert Result Channels in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms916799.aspx
Peter
Stefan Gabriel Georgescu
All of these are not features in sharepoint (inline editing of documents but then you wont have to purchase office!) but some are possible to achieve with custom coding. (number 4 I am sure of)
Chibi-Acer
workflow can be one option, although it doesnt allow people to register themselves for the sms alerts.
I have no idea what replaced the DeliveryChannel, maybe sending a question to Patrick is in order