Case Studies

For the last 3 years SoftControl has implemented various SharePoint solutions and developed many customized web part components (add-ons) ranging from helpful organizing tools to elaborated SharePoint Administration extensions.

Business Overview:

SharePoint’s major feature is to allow users to collaborate on documents, allowing them to share, spread or improve information within the company. SharePoint has its own way of doing this, which does not necessarily fit into the workflows of your groups. Our client wanted tools which would allow their employees to easily find information they regularly use, and be able to quickly search for information which is relevant to their job functions.

Solution:

SoftControl teamed up with our client to develop workgroup driven library functions. This included a latest document tool, an index tool and a user edited content relevance tool.

Latest Document Tool: The Latest Document Tool gives users a list on their home page of all the documents which had been recently updated for their workgroups. This allows the users to quickly scan to see if there are any changes to documents they have ownership or responsibility for, and can even see if there have been any changes in company policy documents which would affect them.

Index Tool: The Index Tool was created to allow users to click on an alphabetized lettering system (“A”, “B”, “C”, etc.) which shows them a list of all the keywords beginning with that letter which had been entered into the SharePoint system.

TOC Tool: Finally, we implemented a Table of Contents (TOC) Tool which allows users to logically put together groups of documents. The user can go into the complete list of documents and select the documents which are relevant to their subject. They can then create a TOC which has these documents set up in the hierarchy they have selected.