Slide deck of my presentation at the SharePoint Europe Conference 2011 in Berlin

1. Cutting Costs Using SharePoint 2010 Alan Richards

2. About Me Information Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School Worked in education for over 17 years Led teams in the early adoption of Microsoft systems Regular presenter at events SharePoint MVP

3. Topics Background Demo of the end result possible InfoPath 2010 SharePoint Designer 2010

4. Background High levels of investment in ICT needs a ROI Paper – 1.5 million sheets of paper a year Printing Copying Letters Academic Review Day £8000 for 2 days

7. InfoPath 2010 Simple to use Easy to connect to SharePoint Browser based forms

8. InfoPath 2010 Create the list from InfoPath Set server / site location Create new list Creates Basic Fields Design Your Page Layouts Page Design Tables Add fields Text boxes Date / Time Person Picker

9. InfoPath 2010 Current User Add text box Control Properties Select function

12. SharePoint Designer 2010 Open a SharePoint site View current workflows Create new list workflow

13. SharePoint Designer 2010 Creating a workflow Add conditions Resultant actions Send Email User from AD / list Use a function to create the subject Use lookups in the body to pull data out of the list

14. SharePoint Designer 2010 Simple or Complex

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