SharePoint Fantastic 40 Site Templates

The Bug Database application template helps development teams collect and track information about bugs in their code. The template allows bugs to be logged with information such as reproduction steps, category, comments, priority, and severity of the bug. Bug categories can specify category owners so users can quickly determine the appropriate bug owners.

The Change Request Management application template helps users track risks associated with a design change. Team members can submit a change request, notifying stakeholders of the risks involved with the change. The application template allows a team member to approve or reject the request.

The Contacts Management application template helps teams manage contact information that needs to be shared among team members. The application template allows teams to enter contact information through a Web-based interface or through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. When used in conjunction with Office Outlook 2007, team members can 'subscribe' to receive updated contract information whenever other users make changes to a contact.

The Event Planning application template helps teams organize events efficiently through the use of online registration, schedules, communication, and feedback. Role-based dashboards offer specific information for various event members such as speaker, guest, staff, vendor, delegate, and attendee home pages.

The Help Desk application template helps teams manage the process of handling service requests. Team members use the application template to identify a service request, manage identification of the root cause, and track solution status. The application template provides role-based dashboards displaying information relevant to customer service representatives and managers, including performance history.

The IT Team Workspace application template helps teams manage the development, deployment, and support of software projects. The application template allows users to update information on projects, tasks, issues, milestones, and bugs. It also includes help desk functionality, making it easy for team members to guide service requests from initiation to resolution. Role based dashboards provide relevant information to team members, such as unassigned tasks and performance history.

The Knowledge Base application template helps teams manage the information that is resident within their organization. The template enables team members to upload existing documents or create new ones using Web-based content creation tools. Items are tagged with relevant identifying information so that others can more easily find the documents and learn from the collective knowledge in their organization. The template can be utilized in a 'top down' approach, where a centralized knowledge department 'pushes down' relevant content to the rest of the business or a 'bottom up' approach, where knowledge is captured and shared by all users as a normal part of doing business.

The Physical Asset Tracking and Management application template helps teams manage requests and tracking of physical assets. An asset manager approves asset requests and manages the properties of the assets in the system, such as location, condition, manufacturer, model, current owner, and estimated value.

The Room and Equipment Reservations application template helps teams manage the utilization of shared meeting rooms and equipment. The application template enables team members to identify times when specific rooms and/or equipment are available and place a reservation for a specified time.

An improved version of this template has been developed by Steven Van de Craen

The Board of Directors application template for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides a single location for an external group of members to store and locate common documents such as quarterly reviews, shareholder meeting notes and annual strategy documents.

The Clinical Trial Initiation and Management application template for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 helps teams manage the process of tracking clinical trial protocols, objective setting, subject selection and budget activities.

The Discussion Database application template provides a location where team members can create and reply to discussion topics. Discussions are organized by categories, which are created by a site manager, and can be linked to Office Outlook 2007 via an RSS feed.

The Employee Activities Site application template helps manage the creation and attendance of events for employees. Activity owners use the site to review proposals for new activities and create event calendar items. Employees use the site to sign up as well as track which activities they've attended in the past.

The Employee Training Scheduling and Materials application template helps instructors and employees manage courses and related materials. Instructors can use the site to add new courses and organize course materials. Employees use the site to schedule attendance at a course, track courses they've attended and to provide feedback.

The Manufacturing Process Management application template helps teams to model and track manufacturing processes as well as tasks and issues that arise in the upkeep of these processes.

The Product and Marketing Requirements Planning application template enables teams to manage the process of collecting and documenting requirements for new products. The site provides several Microsoft Office 2007 templates providing useful techniques for Marketing, Product and Steering committee actions as well as a template for meeting notes and financial information.

The Request for Proposal application template helps manage the process of creating and releasing an initial RFP, collecting submissions of proposals and formally accepting the selected proposal from amongst those submitted. The site also helps simplify the process of notifying individuals about the status of the RFP and submitted proposals.

The Team Work Site application template provides a place where project teams can upload background documents, track scheduled calendar events and submit action items that result from team meetings. The site also tracks the creation and purpose of ‘sub-teams’ as well as enables discussion of topics created by members of the team.

The Microsoft GroupBoard Workspace template creates a space for a group or team to connect and share information in a collaborative environment, improving team efficiency and productivity. The template helps track team member whereabouts and status, and includes a built-in timecard list and organization chart. Meetings can be scheduled with attendees, and meeting rooms and other resources can be reserved. It also enables members to share phone messages and circulate memos.

The Business Performance Reporting application template for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 helps organization managers track the satisfaction of customers through a combination of surveys and discussions.

The Controller-Financial Analyst template helps controllers and financial analysts automate the process of analyzing financial data and information, helping them in their overall decision-making process. The template assists in tracking top performing products and opportunities at different geography levels. It also provides a graphical view of product sales and revenue. The overall design of this Role-Based My Site template is to help Controllers/Financial Analysts achieve their goals of communicating overall corporate performance, budget, and future growth projection to the management, investors, and other stakeholders.

The SSN 3.0 Portal is a key component that is offered through the SSN Program is a SharePoint-based community solution accelerator that consists of a collection of custom templates, custom web parts, and a user registration and self-service facility. Motivated by the SSN Program’s spirit of sharing intellectual capital and by the vision of the Community Kit for SharePoint, the SSN Program team has agreed to donate the SSN 3.0 Portal’s templates and web parts (with full source code) to the CKS project.