SharePoint in Education
I just came across this blog posting about SharePoint in education and found it worth reading. Some of the ideas presented include: Staff collaboration Room and resource booking Presenting reports...
View ArticleHiding the Meeting Workspace option on calendar lists
A person who is able to create new calendar events will have the option to use a meeting workspace for that event. There are a number of caveats with meeting sites such as requiring the creator of the...
View ArticleSite Template for creating document sets for meetings
For the board site, instead of using meeting workspaces, a document set is created for the meeting documents and a link from the calendar item is created as explained in this previous post. This...
View ArticleWhy Meta-data is important
This is an amusing and illustrative skit on the importance of meta-data. http://www.21apps.com/sharepoint/confusinglibrar/ Without meta-data on your documents, you are limiting the improvements you...
View ArticleSetting up Alerts on lists and libraries
Now that the new SharePoint Special Interest Group site has been set up, you may be wondering whether you can stay informed about new posts or events without having to constantly check the site. There...
View ArticleProblems with moving subsites between site collections
The SharePoint team has had occasion to move a couple of subsites in the recent past. I would like to report on the problems that we encountered. Moving subsites can cause problems that may not be...
View ArticleSetting up your search centre – part 1
One of the benefits that SharePoint provides is good indexing and searching capabilities, but in order to get the full benefit of this, you need to do some planning and setting up of your search center...
View ArticleGuidelines for SharePoint Site Collection Owners/Designers at the University...
Over the last two years, the SharePoint team has discovered some tips and good practices to ensure that you get the best use out of your site collection. Please review these tips. If you have...
View ArticleReporting on Lists and Libraries in SharePoint using Microsoft Access
If you have been using SharePoint for a while, you have looked for a way to report on the data in your lists and document libraries. You have figured out how to filter and sort the entries , either...
View ArticlePersistent fields in SharePoint – use caution
Recently I got burned by adding a persistent field to one of my lists. Persistent fields are site columns added by SharePoint and configured in a particular way. These fields can be added to a list,...
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