Technical Overview for
IT Professionals
Application Template: Compliance Process Support Site
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 Compliance Process Support Site
application
template
for
Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0 helps both teams
and
executive
sponsors
manage
compliance implementation endeavors.
The site allows users to specify compliance
regulations that must be met as well as
projects that are required to meet those
regulations.
To
enable
simplified
management of projects, tasks and issues
are used to help ensure projects required to meet regulatory requirements are met by the compliance events
documented on the site’s calendar. The application template also contains document libraries used by team
members to store regulatory documents and related files needed to provide the necessary background.
Activities Performed in this Application Template

Creation of Compliance Regulations that must
be met in order to comply with board or
other
governing
regulatory
body
requirements.
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Listing of Compliance Events, or dates at which a milestone event is occurring, such as an audit or
committee review.

Ability to create a set of projects which are required to satisfy Compliance Regulation.

Project management functionality such as
creation of tasks and issues and normal status
designators. Control Tasks can be viewed and
manipulated within a Gantt chart, which
provides color designation of percentage of the
particular task that is completed.

Uploading of background Compliance Documents, such as regulations, board committee notes or other
documents that provide necessary background for those involved in the project.

User specific dashboards are provided to allow users to see items they are responsible for as well as view
their overdue items.
Site Lists and Libraries
Compliance Documents: Store background and other related compliance information.
Compliance Events: Calendar used to track upcoming meetings, deadlines or other dates.
Compliance Regulations: Listing of regulations that must be met and responsible user.
Control Projects: Listing of projects needed to satisfy the compliance regulations.
Control Tasks: Tasks and associated information for a specific project.
Control Issues: Issues for a project, including associated information such as owner.
Customized and Filtered Forms
My Items: Control Tasks and issues filtered by a specific user.
Overdue Items: Control tasks and issues filtered by a specific user that are currently overdue.
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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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 Compliance Process Support Site application template has the following technical requirements:

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0*
*Review Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 system requirements for additional information:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/techinfo/sysreqs.mspx
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