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® Microsoft Office And The Web Chris Kunicki Charles Maxson CTO HipTrends.com Technical Evangelist Plural 4-202 Agenda Overview Office Web Content The Web Enabling of Office Creating Publishing Making Content Dynamic The Document Paradigm Collaboration Office And The Web 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. 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 HTML File Format Web Features 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 Native as saving to a hard drive/network Integrated throughout Windows 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 The best of Office’s analysis tools Natively authored in Excel and Access Design in FrontPage®, MSE, Visual Basic®, VID, Access or VNP* Use in Web pages or any OLE Container 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 Can emit static content, e.g., GIFs or HTML Office Web Components Logistics Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher No technological tie to Office 2000 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 Access reports and forms for the Web View/edit/analyze data via a browser Did somebody say “Internet Explorer 5.0”? Simple creation of data bound HTML pages 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 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. 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 Initiate document-based discussions From Office apps and/or a browser Use OSE Start Page if not >= IE 4 Documents are not changed 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 E-mail notification of document or folder level events occurring on OSE server 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 Start Page AutoNavigation Pages Filter documents by properties Search Page 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 On the Internet At the bookstore 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 MSDN Library Office 2000 Developer version Questions? Please fill out your Evaluations. Your feedback is very much appreciated!! E-mail us at: [email protected] or [email protected]