This is part 1 in a series of posts about how to create your own SharePoint theme. When you install SharePoint, it comes with a range of themes to pick from. Each theme determines the style and formatting of pages within a site. Themes are applied per site. Navigate to a site, click on Site [...]
Read more »Alerts are a feature within SharePoint to automatically notify you about new and/or updated information. Instead of having to keep checking to find out if content has changed, SharePoint will tell you when it happens. You can create alerts on any list, library or even the results of a search query. For lists and libraries, [...]
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 »Originally, this series was supposed to be 4 parts. But started to realise that part 2 in one shot would be a very looooooong blog post. So here is part 2a. (Click here for part 1): Key messages from the presentation: Slide 3. Whilst most documents about indexing in SharePoint include a complicated diagram to [...]
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Earlier this year, Joining Dots ran a series of Enterprise Search workshops for Microsoft UK. Its purpose was to help organisations explore what enterprise search means and what Microsoft technologies can do to help implement an effective search solution. The workshop consisted of four sessions, containing a mix of presentations, hands-on demonstrations and plenty of [...]
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