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  Automatic Whereabouts?? (3 posts)

• Chris Cundy said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

  Hello,

  We have a site setup on sharepoint foundation 2010 and would like to know if its possible to set it up so that when you have the Whereabouts webpart you can automatically track staff whether they're in or out of the office. It currently only seems to work as a manual process by getting staff to update their status by going onto that page.

  It would be useful to know whether or not this can be made an automatic process maybe based on active directory logon so that when they log into the computer it will automatically advise whether they are in or out of the office.
  I guess a long ballpark plan would be to have this work as a staff movements system where this would be activated by using some kind of swipe card – we have something similar to this at the moment but the current system in place is always going through and it would be great to facilitate this into sharepoint.

  Would appreicate it if anyone could throw any ideas around about this as I imagine this would be useful to a lot of people.

  Thanks

  Chris

• Yogesh Kumar said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

  We can you SharePoint Client object Model .So whenever user login the trigger fire an event and update the status in SharePoint .

• Jeff Cate said 11 months ago:

  I have been thinking that ideally the new My Site Status field is the place to indicate a person's "Whereabouts". Ideally, users would put their "Whereabouts" in that field and then everyone could see the person's location by navigating to their public profile page.

  Another option that would take this a step further, but would require some programming would be to integrate the Lync 2010 "note" field with the SharePoint 2010 My Status field. If you did this, a person's Lync 2010 note value would show up in the SharePoint 2010 My Status field automatically.

  Here is a blog post that describes do this integration work:

  http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/ajgaonkar_amol/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=25