The CorasWorks Workplace Wizard™ is a module that dramatically decreases the amount of time and effort to create anything from a single site to an entire site collection with multiple sites and hierarchies.
With the Workplace Wizard, everything can be done from a single page in just a matter of moments. You simply select a solution blueprint, review the settings, and click a button to build it. The site or workplace is created for you, complete with connections between all of the appropriate workplace elements. If you want to change the default title, description, or URL, you can easily do so before you proceed with the build.
You can still create customized sites and workplaces using the traditional, “manual” method – create each site individually, set up the necessary navigation, select a template, permission settings, and so on at each site. However, if you have repetitive administrative requirements, the Workplace Wizard is an extremely powerful productivity tool.
For users and administrators who have become used to the time and effort it takes to manually build a solution, the ease, speed, and power of the Workplace Wizard are amazing. What used to take anywhere from five minutes to hours, depending on the number of sites being built and configured, now takes about a minute or two. Once you have a blueprint defined, you can build and roll out an entire solution almost instantaneously.
NOTE: New with the Winter 2006 Update, the Workplace Wizard runs as a web service. This makes it less susceptible to time-outs in large builds. This version of the Wizard utilizes AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML). This technology allows parts of a page to be updated without requiring the entire page to be posted back to the web server, allowing for a much smoother user experience.
NOTE: If you are interested in viewing the help for this component running on the Workplace Suite Winter 2007 for SharePoint 2007, click here.
Last Modified: July 07