Background: Client wants to do an internal auction site for all employees for their Bucks Program, basically they are given fake money for accomplishments. The client is in the middle of a SharePoint rollout and was wondering about creating the auction using SharePoint inorder to get an even better ROI. So of course this got me thinking, it should be possible (albeit some limitations) to complete with some workflow and a picture library. Auction would be using preset bid increments of $10,000, company of about 300 employees.
Solution: Created a Picture Library with some custom fields and two workflows one for new items and one for on item change. Created a Master Edit Page in another secured folder so that end users couldn't alter bids. Created a Data View Web part on the main auction page with a Bid button, and last but not least a Thank You redirect page.
*Caveats: Make sure you have the hardware and pipe to handle this feature or you will peg your environment, this happened to the client because they forgot to increase their Virtual Environment power for this VM during the auction. You may also run into a few items that will error out, my thought is that this is caused by end users clicking on the workflow at the same time. You are also limited to the type of auction (at least with this example).
I will post my steps for creating this later today or tomorrow
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Hi, I need to create an auction site.
ReplyDeletecan you publish the steps for this task?
thanks a lot!
I am looking for the same thing, i need to create an auction site for out company to sell of unused items, but may still hold some value, so instead of throwing the items away we can sell them to employees, i created an Access database but it kept crashing, i think sharepoint would be a better platform, so please post these steps, Thanks
ReplyDeleteDo you have the steps for this ?
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a creation guide for this as well. Have you created one that you're willing to share?
ReplyDeleteHmm...
ReplyDeleteI gather you didn't get around to documenting a guide for creating an Auction Site Cory?
That's a shame, but if you have I would like to obtain a copy of it too.
Cheers