It is time to take a break from these daily tips for the summer. So far, you’ve gotten 62 tips every weekday, so I will leave you with the best tip so far:
SharePoint of the Day #63: Take a break. Enjoy summer. Come back in August, I know I will.
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This post was written by spotd on June 26, 2009
You can enable Access Requests for a site to allow users to request access when they are not part of a group. To do so, go the the Perople and Groups link, and the to the Site Permissions link below the site groups. You will find the Access Requests link on the Settings menu. You [...]
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This post was written by spotd on June 22, 2009
You can add items to the QuickLaunch menu from the Site Settings page, as well as when you create new lists and libraries.
Go to the Site Settings page and then to Quick Launch to edit the menu. You can add new headers and links, as well as change the order or any existing links [...]
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This post was written by spotd on June 15, 2009
When you add a site content type to a list you are creating a copy of the content type for the list. This means you can make changes to the list content type without affecting the site content type.
This also means that if you update the site content type and do not opt to apply [...]
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This post was written by spotd on June 10, 2009
You can remove the frames, header, and borders of web parts by going to the Web Part settings and setting the Chrome value to None.
This is especially useful for adding style or Javascript to a page using the Content Editor web part, without showing the webpart that added the code.
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This post was written by spotd on June 9, 2009
You can use the Content Editor Web Part to add style content to a web part page. For example, add a Content Editor web part to the front page, and then open the Source Editor to add the following code:
<style>
h3.ms-standardheader
{
background: #dddddd;
}
</style>
Your webpart headers should now appear grey.
For more elaborate style sheets you can [...]
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This post was written by spotd on June 2, 2009
You can turn off the entire QuickLaunch menu and replace it with a TreeView navigation. To do so, go to the Site Settings page and then follow the Tree View. There, you can turn on or off the Quick Launch and the TreeView menu.
If you enable both the QuickLaunch and the TreeView navigation, the TreeView [...]
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This post was written by spotd on May 27, 2009
If you create a lookup column, the column is tied to the list permanently. There is no way, either through the web interface or through code, to change that connection after the column is created.
Choose wisely.
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This post was written by spotd on May 21, 2009
You can create a site global lookup column by creating a site column at the root of the site collection. Point the lookup column to a list in the root site of the site collection, and all children sites can now use the site column looking up the root list.
This can also be used [...]
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This post was written by spotd on May 19, 2009