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#1 2010-09-08 14:51:59
- Algaris
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Can Textpattern be used in conjunction with SharePoint?
A bit of background first.
In my job at a school I maintain two sites:
1. An externally hosted website for parents (using APACHE)
2. An internally hosted Intranet for pupils and staff (using IIS)
The Intranet is currently a series of static pages linked together and edited using Microsoft Expression Web (which makes it quite a pain to update).
My original plan was to migrate both sites over to Textpattern and share information between the two using rah_external_output. After being here over six months and working towards that goal I was only informed today that the Intranet runs under MS SharePoint (why I wasn’t told or it wasn’t mentioned in my job description I’ll never know).
In the hope that I don’t have to scrap my plans, do any of you know if Textpattern can be run under MS SharePoint? I have to admit I have no experience or knowledge of SharePoint and am scrabbling to catch up and find out all about it.
Many thanks.
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Re: Can Textpattern be used in conjunction with SharePoint?
Sharepoint… Hmm. I am slightly familiaure with it. I haven’t used it yet.
Basically point and click menus to add web pages, blogs, forums. For customization more than the limited ‘edit web part’ that comes with it, I have been told that you can add by writing in a programming language with .Net 3.5 and uploading the result. Sorry, i forget the programming language. I think its C# ( C shell). You put that up on the sharepoint site, and browsers load it like a web page.
Seems overly complicated to me. Add an extra step in like that.
Here is the Microsoft Sharepoint information page.
I pointed out, at work, that in a regular blog I can add dynamic content without writing computer software in a separate programming language. They aren’t interested. Some failed to comprehend, includnig the programmers who do it all the time. One even acted like it wasn’t possible to have a blog with dynamic content without sharepoint. Urf. Very narrow world view.
Anyway, my opinion is, and I’m not an expert on Sharepoint, is you may have major difficulty combining the two together on one site. Kind of like putting a car into a backpack and then carrying that on your back.
Of course, someone out there may know how to get it all to work.
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#3 2010-09-13 09:48:35
- Algaris
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Re: Can Textpattern be used in conjunction with SharePoint?
Thanks Jim. That’s what I feared and is quite a pain in the backside. From my own research I found various people where struggling to get PHP working with SharePoint. It seems like a case of round hole square peg to me.
For us sharePoint is mainly used to integrate with our Windows network and give certain users access to specific areas of the Intranet with their network login. It’s also used to create what’s called Sub Webs, which as far as I can tell is like using sub domains for subject specific sites branching off from the main one.
I’m going to have to give this some more thought now as it looks increasingly likely I’ll have to maintain the two sites as separate entities even though they’ll share the same information. If I can get away from using static pages it’ll be a plus for me (who in their right mind has two static pages of staff contacts one listed by forename and the other by surname?) though I’d rather not have to learn C# or .net unless I have to.
Assuming I do go down the route of c# I’m guessing it would be a cause of working with MS Visual Studio?
Last edited by Algaris (2010-09-14 12:08:14)
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Re: Can Textpattern be used in conjunction with SharePoint?
Yup, visual studio, which there is a free version.
Note the the freeware Sharepoint and the paid sharepoint differ in what is available.
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