Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Microsoft Share Point

Share point is one of the Microsoft Web Server products. It is a web-based collaboration, document management, and process management product that allow us to build an enterprise portal. It aims at following:

a). To improve team productivity by allowing staff to collaborate efficiently.

b). To provide the staff with the information they need.

c). To provides us with the framework to create websites that not only provide access to documents and shared workspaces but also allow other web-based applications such as wikis and blogs to be created.

d). It also allows elaborate workflows to be created, allowing business processes to be monitored and actioned.

Share point refers to two products:

a). Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)

It is a free add-on for Windows server which provide following features:

  1. Wiki
  2. Workflows
  3. Blog
  4. Document management with version control
  5. Team sites
  6. RSS support etc.

b). Microsoft SharePoint Server

It is a product purchased separately from WSS and adds following features to the basic features discussed above:

  1. Improved Document Management
  2. Project Management
  3. Enterprise Search

Share point is suited for medium-sized companies or large enterprises.

Lock, Save and Unlock Methods in Capture professional

The Lock, Unlock, and Save methods of a RepObject are used to make changes to the RepObject.To change a RepObject you must lock it, make the change, save it, and then unlock it. If you try to lock a RepObject already locked by another user, you will receive an error. The following code renames a RepObject:

Dim oBatch as RepObject
If oBatch.Lock then
oBatch.Name = “newname”
oBatch.Save
oBatch.Unlock
EndIf

The Lock, Save and Unlock methods each return a boolean value indicating success or failure. Locking a RepObject locks all the children of that RepObject. Saving a RepObject saves all of the children of that RepObject. Each call to the Lock method must eventually be matched with a call to the Unlock method by the same user before a RepObject is fully unlocked. The RepObject manages an internal lock count that is incremented by the Lock method and decremented by the Unlock method. The RepObject is deemed no longer locked when this lock count reaches zero. For example, if an application calls the Lock method twice on a given RepObject, it must eventually call Unlock twice on the same RepObject