This is the first post in a series based on a training course I have delivered over the past three years. The course is a half-day workshop covering the basics of what is SharePoint through to managing a site.
Managing Site Permissions
Read more »With SharePoint Server 2007, you can easily set-up workflows to require items in a list to be approved. (Go to the list settings, click on Workflow settings and fill in the boxes.) However, if you are going to the trouble of requiring all items to be approved, you probably only want those items to become visible to everyone once they have been approved.
When you create a site collection using the Collaboration Portal template in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you get an extra web part not available in any of the other templates. It’s called ‘I need to…’ and displays a list of options, starting with ‘Set up MySite’. It starts life on the home page of the top-level site in the site collection…
Read more »If you have ever played with the wiki libray in SharePoint, you may have noticed that clicking on the title of the library in the Quick Launch menu (sidebar on the left) automatically opens the home page within the library. That’s great if you go to the trouble of creating a home page and linking [...]
Read more »You’re in the UK, your server knows it’s in the UK, yet all the dates in SharePoint are listing in the US format of month/day/year. SharePoint ignores the regional settings of the server and watches the time in its own little world. To change, go to the top level site in the site collection, click [...]
Read more »I was recently asked if you can integrate help into web parts within SharePoint. As it happens, you can. I had forgotten all about this little feature and thought it might be useful to others. So here’s the ‘how to’: If you navigate to a site within SharePoint, and click on the little arrow on [...]
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