SharePoint of the Day » End User http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd Your daily dose of SharePoint - From Spot D Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:21:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Summer Vacation – See You in August http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/summer-vacation-see-you-in-august http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/summer-vacation-see-you-in-august#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:21:00 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/summer-vacation-see-you-in-august 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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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/summer-vacation-see-you-in-august/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #62 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-62 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-62#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-62 You can modify the top navigation bar from the Site Settings page. For example, you can modify the order in which tabs appear, or create new tabs, linking to any page within the SharePoint site.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-62/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #59 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-59 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-59#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-59 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 need to set up an email address to receive the access requests.

If you allow user access requests, users will be given a new “Request access” link on the Access Denied page, leading to a form where they can send the access request along with a message to the email address you set up.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-59/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #54 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-54 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-54#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-54 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 in the menu.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-54/feed 1 SharePoint of the Day #51 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-51 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-51#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-51 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 changes to child content types, the list content type will not get updated.

You can learn more about content types in USP Journal Volume 1, Issue 2

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-51/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #50 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-50 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-50#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-50 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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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-50/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #45 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-45 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-45#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-45 h3.ms-standardheader { background: #dddddd; } </style> Your webpart headers should now appear grey. For more elaborate style sheets you can [...]]]> 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 opt to include a css file rather than edit the source code directly.

You can use the same trick to add JavaScript to a page.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-45/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #41 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-41 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-41#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-41 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 navigation will appear below the normal QuickLaunch menu.

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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-41/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #37 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-37 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-37#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-37 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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]]> http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-37/feed 0 SharePoint of the Day #35 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-35 http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-35#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 03:26:11 +0000 spotd http://www.understandingsharepoint.com/spotd/sharepoint-of-the-day-35 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 further down in the hierarchy; if you create a site column at one level in the hierarchy, all children sites also have access to that site column.

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