Winter Olympics Press Portal Powered by SharePoint 2010
With the Winter Olympic games just a few weeks away I just read today that SharePoint 2010 has just won a “Gold Medal”. Well kind of…The US Olympic Committee has set up a press portal that is running on SharePoint 2010. Nice!!!
SharePoint expert Dan Holme reports from the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he is the Microsoft Technologies consultant for NBC. He wrote a blog article on SharePoint Pro Connections, here is a snippet and link to the full story.
This is great news for the Microsoft and SharePoint 2010 community!
US Olympic Committee Passes the Torch to SharePoint 2010
I’m particularly thrilled to share with you that Microsoft and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) have teamed up to bring Winter Games content and information to reporters through a new press portal powered by–drum roll–SharePoint 2010. That’s right, the USOC’s PressBox site is powered by the beta version of SharePoint 2010 which, among other things, is a real testament to the strength of the product even in its pre-release state.
Building the site on SharePoint 2010 technology, the site exposes RSS feeds to enable real-time access to breaking news and personal updates from athletes who are using Twitter, Facebook, and blog posts. SharePoint’s enhanced search enables rich sorting of athlete information, sporting events, article authors, and more.
For Dan’s FULL coverage from Vancouver and more on his article, visit the SharePoint Pro Connections blog.
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Managing Image Metadata in SharePoint Image Library
Ever upload images in huge batches to your SharePoint Picture Library? I just did the other day and then had to think how I would update keywords and metadata for hundreds of photos. I sure wasn’t going to click Edit Properties on all of the photos!
If this was a normal Document library, no problem. I’d have just “Edit in datasheet” and bulk edited the metadata, but you cannot do this in an picture library. I’m not 100% sure of the reason, but probably has to do with how the images are stored in the database.
So what you’ll have to do is create an Access View, that is if you have Access 2007 installed on your PC. The new Access view will allow you to modify the metadata for your images.
Ok, so how do you start?
1. Go to your Picture Library and Create a new view
2. Choose Access View
3. Save the Access DB file somewhere, such as your desktop or My Documents
4. Create Access View window appears, select Datasheet. That is the best way to edit bulk data.
5. Edit your metadata. to save, just click in another record
I updated all of Springhouse’s official logos by copying and pasting “Official Logo” into each record.
Why didn’t I just click and drag?
Oh I wish I could have done that but it is not allowed when using Access, that’s more of an Excel feature. If you just have a hundred or so images to update, I’d just suggest editing the metadata on each item. I did it this way and just copied and pasted. You could probably come up with a nice update query within Access to find and replace for the images you just uploaded. If you do resort to a query, I’d suggest uploaded images in groups of common metadata so you can find all new images or those with blank column/metadata and update those first.
Hope this helps you with large image galleries and Picture Libraries.
