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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This post was written by spotd on June 25, 2009

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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 [...]

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This post was written by spotd on June 15, 2009

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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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This post was written by spotd on June 9, 2009

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SharePoint of the Day #45

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

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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 [...]

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This post was written by spotd on May 27, 2009

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SharePoint of the Day #30

The User Tasks web part is very useful for showing users their current assignments, for example current workflow tasks.
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This post was written by spotd on May 12, 2009

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SharePoint of the Day #27

A lot of the visual interface of SharePoint is contained in RenderingTemplate controls, stored in the [12]\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES\DefaultTemplates.ascx.
You can override these rendering templates by creating your own .ascx files in the CONTROLTEMPLATES folder by adding RenderingTemplate controls with the same ID as the template you wish to override.
Note that you can only override once, and that [...]

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This post was written by spotd on May 7, 2009

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SharePoint of the Day #7

Did you know that you can change the web parts on a personal level? To do so, go to the Personal Menu available from the Welcome User Name link in the top right of the site, and select the Personalize this page link
Any changes you do will not affect any other users. If you do [...]

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This post was written by spotd on April 9, 2009

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