Transcript Microsoft Office and the Web

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Microsoft Office
And The Web
Chris Kunicki
Charles Maxson
CTO
HipTrends.com
Technical Evangelist
Plural
4-202
Agenda
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Overview
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Office Web Content
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The Web Enabling of Office
Creating
Publishing
Making Content Dynamic
The Document Paradigm
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Collaboration
Office And The Web
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The Question…
Everywhere, knowledge is being captured
within Office documents. However, sharing
this knowledge has been limited by
technology beyond the average user’s reach
It’s where
It’s where
people
people
wantwork.
to work.
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The Answer…
Within a familiar environment, Office 2000
removes the barriers and allows all users to
participate in this revolution called the Web.
Seamlessly, without boundaries
The Web Enabling Of Office
Creating Content with Office
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HTML File Format
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Web Features
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Universal file viewing
Visually consistent viewing and editing
WYSIWEB – “What you see, is what
everyone browses”
Roundtripping – to the browser and back again
Themes, frames, improved hyperlinks, output
options, VSE
HTML file format typically contains multiple
files per document
Web Publishing With Office
Web Folders
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Native as saving to a hard drive/network
Integrated throughout Windows
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Appears under “My Computer”
All Explorer views
Office’s File Open & Save dialogs
Folder shortcuts work like mapped
network drives
Drag-n-drop file operations
Create publishing “Favorites”
Demo:
Creating And Publishing
Web Content with
Office 2000
Office Web Components
Don’t just browse pages, interact with them
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The best of Office’s analysis tools
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Natively authored in Excel and Access
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Design in FrontPage®, MSE, Visual Basic®, VID, Access or VNP*
Use in Web pages or any OLE Container
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Spreadsheet, PivotTable, Chart, Data Source Component
MS Forms, Visual Basic forms, other COM control containers
Fully programmable via COM automation
Can use server-side without UI, such
as in Active Server Pages
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Can emit static content, e.g., GIFs
or HTML
Office Web Components
Logistics
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Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher
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No technological tie to Office 2000
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Internet Explorer 3.0 will render components as
static text
Can deploy without deploying Office 2000
Auto-Download using CAB and Microsoft Installer
 Use the CODEBASE attribute, must be file:\\
path (i.e., Intranet only)
 CAB is 1.6 Mb, component is 2.7 Mb
Licensing requirements…
Demo:
Making Content Dynamic
With The
Office Web
Components
Data Access Pages
Bring “Live” Data to the Web
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Access reports and forms for the Web
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View/edit/analyze data via a browser
 Did somebody say “Internet Explorer 5.0”?
Simple creation of data bound HTML pages
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Similar design tools as Access form/reports
Easily leverage relationships in underlying data
One step deployment to Web server
Stored externally outside of Access .mdb/.adp file
Demo:
Binding Data To Web
Pages with
Data AccessPages
The Document Paradigm
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What is it?
Teams are the essential unit in which people work.
Documents are created for teams, yet our tools
reflect a single user mentality, creating a barrier
towards true collaboration
It’s how
It’s how
people
people
wantwork.
to work.
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How to address it?
By letting teams work around documents without
having to implement “work-arounds”, collaboration
can be truly recognized. Office 2000 with
Office Server Extensions enables collaboration
Collaboration With OSE
Discussions
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Initiate document-based discussions
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From Office apps and/or a browser
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Use OSE Start Page if not >= IE 4
Documents are not changed
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In-line content or at a document level
Real-time or ad hoc
Discussion threads anchored to signatures in
documents
Stored in SQL database
Engage discussions on any Web page
Collaboration With OSE
Subscriptions and Notifications
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E-mail notification of document or folder
level events occurring on OSE server
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Document edits, additions, deletions, etc.
Discussions
Uses any SMTP mail server to send
notifications via e-mail
Schedule delivery frequency based on
“importance”
Works only with docs on specific Office
extended web server
OSE
Web Access Tools
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Start Page
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AutoNavigation Pages
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Filter documents by properties
Search Page
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Alternative entry point for OSE collaboration
Interface for non-Internet Explorer 4.0
or higher users
Find pages based on traditional file characteristics
Office properties
Requires Microsoft Index Server
Customizable…
Demo:
Collaboration Via OSE
For More Information
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On the Internet
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At the bookstore
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www.microsoft.com/office
www.microsoft.com/ork
officeupdate.microsoft.com
“Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit”
 Various authors (MS Press)
“Microsoft Office 2000 Visual Basic
Programmer’s Guide”
 By Shank, Roberts & Myers (MS Press)
Microsoft Office Developer Edition
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MSDN Library Office 2000 Developer version
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