7. General Application Settings
General
Application Settings provide you with the ability to manage settings
for various applications that are available in SharePoint 2010. This
functional category contains a lot of the items that don’t fit
particularly well under any of the other categories, so you will see
that there are several different types of configurations you can perform
with the settings in this category.
7.1. External Service Connections
This section allows
you to configure Web application level Send To connectors and configure
which Web applications can perform document conversions.
7.1.1. Configure Send to Connections
This option is new to
SharePoint 2010, and it allows farm administrators to create custom Send
To connectors for each Web application that appears when a user chooses
the Send To option for a document accessed from within that Web
application. The configuration of a Web application Send To connection
has two parts.
To define the Send To location, you must enter a display name and the URL of the Send To location, as shown in Figure 54. This URL must contain a location of another document library.
If the Web application is
configured to do so, the user can select the Send To locations using the
drop-down menu available with the document or by clicking the document
and then clicking the Send To icon on the Ribbon. After the user selects
the Send To option for a document, the behavior you define for that
Send To connection determines what happens to the original document. The
following three options are available.
Copy
Move
Move And Leave A link
The purpose of the Send To
location has a great impact on what behavior will take place for the
documents being sent to that location. For example, if the Send To
action is being used to locate items in a central document repository,
then you may want to move the document but leave a link to its new
location.
7.1.2. Configure Document Conversions
The document
conversion feature is responsible for taking different types of files
and converting them to HTML. This allows them to be uploaded to a
defined pages library where the HTML version is needed. However, in
order to configure this feature, the following two services first must be started on the Services On Server screen.
After these two required
services are started, you can configure document conversion settings on
the Configure Document Conversions page shown in Figure 55. To begin the configuration, you must first select the Web application
to apply the conversion to and then enable the document conversion
option by clicking the Enable Document Conversions For This Site option.
Furthermore, you use the Load Balancer drop-down menu to specify the
server responsible for performing the actual conversion. You then create
a schedule defining how often you want the conversion process to run.
7.2. InfoPath Forms Services
The forms
services are used to configure, manage, and upload your forms into a
central repository. The forms can then be consumed and used by users
from within their sites. There are five management areas within forms
services.
Manage form templates
Configure InfoPath forms services
Upload form template
Manage data connection files
Configure InfoPath Forms Services Web Service Proxy
There are several
form templates available out-of-the-box, but you may need to create and
upload your own custom forms. After you have uploaded your forms, you
can define the settings for the forms by configuring the forms services.
At this point, you configure specific connection settings such as
session state, post backs, and requiring SSL for basic authentication
connections.
By default, forms
service is not enabled to allow connections from Web services. If you
want to allow this, access the Configure Forms Services Web Service
Proxy interface and select the check box next to the Enable InfoPath
Forms Services Web Service Proxy setting. Next, select the check box to
Enable InfoPath Forms Services Web Service Proxy For User Forms.
