Sunday, August 1, 2010

Some Usability concerns on SharePoint 2010

This article lists some of the UI concerns faced during my work in the last 3 weeks. Hopefully Microsoft improves the some of these in the next patch.

  1. User Profile Property view takes a lot of time to load: No idea what is going on here.
  2. User Profile AD Sync with users 35K records takes a lot of time in loading the top level tree. To even expand the tree it does go through minutes of wait time. There is no visual indicator during the wait.
  3. User Profile Property assoication with BDC: Here the default view makes the user to beleive that the association is already made.
  4. External content type picker doesnt show proper values. It just shows the Source i.e DB Name for SQL Server type. It gets very confusing when there are multiple Content Types which share the same db but map to different tables.
  5. View distorts the user id. Especially after setting the admin credentials for the Secure Storage Service. Ex: server\administrator becomes  i:0#.w server\administrator ;  This makes the user thinking if he has given the correct values or not.
  6. Changing the master page on the Search Site Collection and trying to add a web part page did not provide a scroll bar to find the Add button. Luckily the tabs were working.
  7. MySite manage keywords page is skewed.
I am all excited to head back home from my SharePoint onsite assignment. If my next assignment is in SharePoint then I may add more stuff under this blog.

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