If anyone out there is in the mood to share some of their Sharepoint
wisdom, I have some sort of vague, newbie-ish questions...
So a little background: I work on a research team that has been using
Sharepoint + custom databases as our primary means of project
management. We're coordinating a new project that will mostly be run
by people outside of our institute, and we're hoping to move more
project management functions online.
I don't know a whole lot about web development, but really want to
learn, so the idea is for this to be a learning project for me, and
hopefully for some stuff to be developed that could be useful on
future projects.
Problem is, I don't have much leeway to really get in there and make
changes and learn stuff. Our IT dept. doesn't want anyone to edit
pages with HTML editors, apparently because they worry about changes
made via FrontPage/Sharepoint Designer messing with pages throughout
the Sharepoint site hierarchy. I understand that FrontPage can be
unusually weird with extensions and whatnot, so I'm wondering if I
could make the case that using something like ASP.net wouldn't pose
the same problem (?)
Also, only members of the IT dept. are allowed access to the top
level site collections, so I can't create templates, can't upload add-
ons... which I can understand, but I'd *really* like to get in
there :-) I'm just wondering if there's some way, um... I don't
know, is there a way to establish a separate site hierarchy, that our
team would bear total responsibility for?
My research team is also considering just renting server space
ourselves so that we can develop our own Sharepoint hierarchy, but we
would like to find a way to work through our IT dept if possible.
The organizational politics of it all is a bit weird, since we're an
independent research team under a larger institutional umbrella.
But anyway... if you happen to have any thoughts, suggestions about
any of this, I would really appreciate it.