Timeline for When should we allow questions about products that don't belong to a SharePoint SKU?
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| Jan 21, 2014 at 14:15 | comment | added | Nathan DeWitt | @AlexeyKrasheninnikov MS Project integrating into SharePoint would have to be banned as well, because it is a "commercial product... that extends SharePoint." And we all know this is not going to happen. So in effect, this rule is against third-party vendors. | |
| Jan 21, 2014 at 14:11 | comment | added | Nathan DeWitt | @AlexAngas I thought the whole point of the stackexchange sites was to attract the experts in the various domains! I have looked at the [Nintex] posts, all of which are closed or on hold, and many have excellent answers that refer back to things like configuring the User Profile service correctly. Why do we discount this kind of discussion? Saying that this will lead to a degeneration of the site quality is unfounded. | |
| May 24, 2011 at 1:22 | comment | added | user3260 | @Stuart I didn't think about it that way at the time, and I agree that my example is much more applicable to SO. I still feel these questions should be allowed on this site, but I also understand the rationale why not to. | |
| May 24, 2011 at 1:16 | comment | added | user3260 | @Alex Thanks for the explanation. In my consultancy work I almost always see SharePoint integrated with another product (MS Project, CRM etc) so I still feel these are relevant, although at the same time I respect the site and community you are building here. | |
| May 22, 2011 at 4:50 | vote | accept | Alex Angas | ||
| May 22, 2011 at 4:50 | history | edited | Alex AngasMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added open source/community exception
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| May 20, 2011 at 20:57 | comment | added | Anders Rask Mod | rephrase to include open source projects such as CKS:DEV: We do accept questions about SharePoint Products and Technologies, defined as the functionality available in either SharePoint Foundation (WSS) or SharePoint Server (Standard or Enterprise) or open source products based on the SharePoint platform. | |
| May 20, 2011 at 7:35 | comment | added | Stu Pegg | @Andrew: Part of the reason such questions are more acceptable on SO is that the SO community is much more developer-based, which means they're much less likely to buy-in a solution. SPSE is more likely to attract those who can't develop their own solutions are hence would have often purchased from the spectacularly broad SP 3rd party solution market. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 22:15 | history | edited | Alex AngasMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified again
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| May 19, 2011 at 20:40 | history | edited | Alex AngasMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified
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| May 19, 2011 at 20:38 | comment | added | Alex Angas Mod | @AKrasheninnikov If they don't relate to the SharePoint platform, yes. I've tried to edit my answer to make this clearer, thank you. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 20:37 | comment | added | Alex Angas Mod | @Andrew If we allow a certain type of questions, then we attract the experts for that domain. The more we widen that the harder this gets, and the more likely we end up with questions that can't be answered by our community. Perhaps we can answer questions on the more popular products, but people seeing those will ask questions about those not so well known. Then the site quality starts degenerating, and becomes less useful. Regarding Stack Overflow, that's a different site with different rules and problems. Your example may well be more appropriate there. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 18:27 | comment | added | Alexey Krasheninnikov | Do you mean that we ban Project Server questions too? | |
| May 18, 2011 at 3:58 | comment | added | user3260 | A lot of people have invested in K2 and Nintex for their SharePoint farms. Is it really not relavant to ask such questions here? On StackOverflow I have asked questions about integrating Telerik ASP.NET controls and SharePoint.. | |
| May 16, 2011 at 1:41 | history | answered | Alex AngasMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |