I’m really proud to announce my first SharePoint application… to be exact it’s the first tool developed and distributed by my company ‘Andreas Glaser Software Engineering GmbH’.

Management summary

Content Generator 2010 allows the automatic creation of SharePoint content and structure containing list items, documents, lists, pages, sites and sub site collections.

Features

All the features offered by my application:

• Content generator
  Create list items, documents, lists*, pages, sites and sub site collections with predefined content. Create content on different SharePoint farms, e.g. development-, integration- and staging environment**.
• Save time and money
  Create content once. Recreate it any time at different SharePoint farms. Don't waste the precious time of your software engineers and project managers. Find errors during development and quality assurance because you are developing with real world content.
• Real world development
  Don't develop in a sandbox. Arrange content in a structure which is similar to your customers’ information architecture.
• Easy to use
  Quickly create content and structure. Easy to use editor. Re-use html from any web site as your sample content.
• Jobs creating content
  Save content and structure as templates for different customers. Create them using jobs.
• Large quantities of content
  Create large quantities of content (list items, documents, lists, pages and sites) either by item or globally for all items.
• Check in and approval
  Check in and approve list items, documents and pages either by item or globally for all elements.
• Logging
  The application supports logging of informational events and errors. Solve errors fast since they are referenced to the user manual.
• Portable
  No installation required.

* Custom list templates are not supported.
** Production environments are not supported.

Business value

As an IT service provider focused on SharePoint you have Software Engineers creating solutions for your customers. Content Generator adds additional benefit to your software development process because it enables your software engineers to develop with real world content, meaning content which is similar to your customers’ information architecture.

You create it once with an easy to use editor and reuse it on different SharePoint farms, e.g. development-, integration- and staging environment and / or by different software engineers.

Download

Content Generator 2010

Your opinion?

Please write me what you think… you can either post a comment below or write a mail using the contact form.

What’s next?

Of course there will be SharePoint 2010 support if the new version of SharePoint is officially released.