Sharepoint Newbie question

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I am feeling crazy about sharepoint, pleaes help!

I was requested to build a hour tracker system (project management) on the WSS. one senario would be this:

1) in one page i have a menu (can be built to a web part)
2) if i click a link/button in the menu, it gives me another page show a form with controls (such a entry hour form).

How do I build the form? Do I need to put everything in the form into another web part? How can I connect two web parts in different page? Can I build the page with form using visual studio.net and code behind? once the page is built, where do I put the page in the sharepoint server? If I build a page (basic or web part form) in the site, i cound not find the page by doing a search in the server?

Please help!!! Thank you so much!

 

[dlongnecker]

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Perhaps a question to start out is: Why does the site need to be a series of web parts? Why not create a standard ASP.NET web application tied into a database and link to it from your WSS pages? If nothing else, you could theme it and lay it out similar to your existing site to provide that continuity--if necessary.

You could build them into web parts (or, in a sense, an application that you're just viewing in a web part box), but I think that'd seem like a lot of work to package something that isn't going to be "placed" anywhere else.

Unless there is another requirement that I'm missing, I'd suggest developing your web application using VS.NET (whichever language you're most comfortable with), or, most simplistically, with FrontPage 2003 and creating a dataview to a SQL Server or another database.

Once the page is built, you can upload it to the WSS site using FrontPage and link to it or link to it's "real" location using a link in WSS (

http://myserver/webdir/file.aspx)

in an excluded directory.

If the mark was missed, let me know and provide a bit more information, if possible, if there is a specific requirement for it being in a WSS/Webpart page.

Thanks!

-David

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David R. Longnecker
Web Developer
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