Screencast series on creating a Document Management Center
The first five screencasts for creating a Document Management Center are available. The series starts with an introduction and then moves immediately into creating a Document Management Center subsite. A template library is then created to hold customized document templates for all the other main libraries on the site. Included within the screencasts are the steps to set permissions on the library, require approval before a template becomes available, activate versioning and using forced Check In / Check Out.
This is a continuing series to demonstrate OOTB functionality of SharePoint and how it can be applied in real world situations.
Thanks for you screencast series, I think it pintpoints very nicely what can be achieved with SharePoint by fully utilizing the product’s possibilities. Have you noticed, however, that Office does not display the server properties (like e.g. custom content type metadata properties) in the document information panel when you link your content type to a template in a separate template library (like you do)? I think it’s a bug, but haven’t found it mentioned anywhere yet. (So maybe I should consider it to be a feature…)
Susanne,
I have posted a response to your comment as a new post since I think it opens up the subject of metadata and where it resides. You can find it at http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=52.
Regards,
Mark