Re: Request advice on structure and setup of this site/space

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What you are proposing to do is combine the functionality of the Discussion List and a Custom List.
Out of the box you can not combine functionality in the way you want to.
You may be able to do it using CAML, but that is a complex process.
I think a custom web part would probably be the easiest way to solve your problem.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
C



"Rob" <not.using.an.email.address@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:not.using.an.email.address@xxxxxxxxxx:

Any basic advice anyone?

Regards,
Rob

On Sat, 14 May 2005 02:27:30 +1200, Rob
<not.using.an.email.address@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Hi all,
>
>(please bear with me.. it's a long post.. but should be easy reading)
>
>I'm quite new to sharepoint, but am convinced it's the correct tool
>for me and plan on using it on a remote host to create a site where
>about 20-30 people from around the world are expected to collaborate
>on a scientific project over perhaps the next 5 years.
>
>I am still at the stage where I have to convince others that this is
>the best tool for the job. I am interested in enabling the team to
>begin working together asap more than I am interested spending months
>constructing a portal/cms tool from scratch. Hence I feel WSS will get
>us there quicker than any of the other systems I've examined.
>
>Now; what I want to provide the team with is an example of WSS
>assisting us in the actual work we are doing. One of our first tasks
>is to create a dictionary of our terminology.
>
>At the input phase, this will involve us being able to add a term plus
>an initial moderated definition to a list of up to a few hundred
>items.
>
>In the collaboration phase, we will want to be able to click on a
>term, view the definition and add comments to this definition.
>
>In the output phase, we will want an indexed glossary of these terms;
>browsable alphabetically or by searching. The result will include the
>moderated definition (which may have been made up of several
>alternates or a single agreed one resulting from the discussion.
>
>The point of my post is this: What is the best way to set this up?
>I have been trying a variety of ways using text areas, lists and
>discussion boards in WSS, but have simply not discovered the proper
>and elegant way to do it.
>
>Ideally, the users would click on a link labeled 'Dictionary' in the
>nav tool. This would take them to a sub site or space where there
>would be an alphabetic list of the terms, perhaps 50 to a page and
>with some easy way to get to the end of the list. Clicking on a term
>would either expand the moderated definition right there or I guess it
>could just go through to a new page where that term plus the
>definition resides. On this new page one should be able to add to a
>discussion about the term. There would ideally be a means of attaching
>documents to a topic because this is about chemistry and the users
>will be referring to documents written with a tool that writes MathML.
>One should of course be able to set alerts for any term or topic.
>
>I am working on the site remotely as I've said and cannot do anything
>directly on the server other than through WSS or FP2003. My web host
>has offered to install any parts that I require on the server if I
>need them.
>
>Note that my email is of course not real, but I am in the newsgroup
>all the time to check back. I've been clicking up and down the WSS FAQ
>and have found many useful things, but nothing quite relating to what
>I'm after here.
>
>Thanks hugely for any advice or assistance with these very important
>first steps for us.
>
>Regards,
>Rob


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