Technical Overview for
IT Professionals
Application Template: Sports League
Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 is technology in Windows Server® that offers an integrated
portfolio of collaboration and communication services designed to connect people, information, processes and
systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall. Now available at no additional cost, Windows
SharePoint Services makes it simpler for IT professionals to implement and manage a team collaboration
infrastructure. Application Templates are tailored to address the needs and requirements for specific business
processes or sets of tasks for organizations of any size. The templates provide out-of-the-box, customizable
scenarios which solve business needs as well as providing a starting point for partners and developers looking to
build more sophisticated Windows SharePoint Services solutions.
Description of Template
The Sports League application template
for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
helps groups within a company organize,
schedule and manage a team sports
league, in this case Baseball.
application
template
administrators
assign
helps
The
league
individuals
to
teams, schedule games, track team and
player statistics as well as foster communication between team members. It also serves as the announcement
and contacts listing for the sports league, enabling those interested in joining to find information about the
league on their company’s internal website.
Activities Performed in this Application Template
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Form league teams: Typically the first step for any new league is the formation of teams. League
administrators create new teams and assign ‘captains’ to each team.
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Assign players to teams: Players can be assigned to each team using the ‘Manage Players’ page under the
Team Management category. Players must be an authorized user of the Windows SharePoint Services site
to be joined to a team. The site allows for simple swapping of players between teams in case mid-season
‘trading’ occurs frequently.
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Schedule Games and Events: The site includes a
calendar function which allows scheduling of
games, practices or events. Teams can be selected
and after the game, the captain or league
administrator can edit the event to include the
home and away team scores.
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Contact information and Announcements: The site
includes the capability to enter contact information
for captains, players and league administrators as
well as the capability to post announcements such
as the deadlines for new team formation.
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Statistics Entry and Analysis: The application template supports the capability of entering and analyzing
game and player statistics. Different views of the data can be shown automatically, such as total, average
and by individual game. The captain or league administrator can decide how much detail they choose to
enter about each game – as little as a score or as much as detailed, by player information on ‘at bats, hits’
and pitching data.
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League Discussion: To help foster community between league members, the Sports League application
template includes a discussion functionality that can be integrated via an RSS feed to Microsoft Office
Outlook® 2007. League members log into the Sports League site to start a discussion and can reply to the
discussion from within Office Outlook 2007 or the Sports League site.
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Site Lists and Libraries
Captains Information: Lists contact information for team captains and league administrators.
League Calendar: Tracks games, practices, events and other calendar items.
Player Statistics: Enter and track player statistics such as hits and runs.
Player List: List and edit players for each team.
Teams: Create and list league teams.
League Discussion:
Use the League Discussion list to hold newsgroup-style discussions between league
members.
Customizing SharePoint Sites and Templates
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a Web site development and management program that provides
powerful tools to build, customize, and contribute to Windows SharePoint Services sites using the latest Web
design technologies and established standards in an IT-controlled environment.
Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and deploy interactive solutions without having to write code.
Automate business processes, such as document approval, custom event notification and other collaboration
tasks with the workflow designer. Create reporting and tracking applications using data views and forms to
easily gather and aggregate data from outside your site and from lists and document libraries on the Web.
Extend your solution by building advanced interactive Microsoft ASP.NET pages. Insert and edit controls with
the same powerful activity menus and control property grids previously found only in the Microsoft Visual
Studio® development system.
Technical Dependencies
The Sports League application template has the following technical requirements:
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0*
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Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
*Review Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 system requirements for additional information:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/techinfo/sysreqs.mspx
The example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are
fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, email address, logo, person, places, or events is intended
or should be inferred.
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More Information
For more information on the technologies described in this article, please visit:
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007:
http://office.microsoft.com/sharepointdesigner
Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services:
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepointapps
The example companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, and events depicted herein are
fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, email address, logo, person, places, or events is intended
or should be inferred.
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This document is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY.
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
www.microsoft.com/sharepointapps