It’s a common question: “How can I create a custom sort order in a list?” My typical response was to create a hidden column called “Sort Order”, manually set a numerical sort order for each item and then hide the column from view.

If you have MOSS, you can use the information management policy settings in the document library. You can set it to: Modified Date + 6 months. Then, make it kick off a workflow at that point. Use an OOB one, or create your own “review” workflow that will “Collect data from a user” in the workflow.

In my previous article I covered the difference between a Discussion Board and a Blog. Personally, I’m a fan of the blog site template in SharePoint. Many organizations tend to struggle with how they can use a blog and for what general purpose. Examine your company and think about where you have a ‘message’ to deliver. If you decide that a blog will help with the communication of that message, start blogging! EndUserSharePoint is having a Live Online Workshop on the Fundamentals of Wikis and Blogs

Learning about blogs and wikis is the next logical step in an End User’s transition from basic user to Power User. In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the use of blogs and wikis for documentation, journals, meeting minutes, policies and procedures documentation, and other uses as needed by the participants.

We have just completed another session of the Basics of Content Types live online workshop. This is an area for the participants to give me feedback and comments on the session.

I was looking at my hosted SharePoint WSS solution and realized there was no Feedback, Approval or Disposition workflow. When I contacted support, they said Three-State was the only one available out of the box.

The one I like the most is Accordion for QuickLaunch. It is a simple JQuery script that allows users to collapse and expand sections of a SharePoint QuickLaunch menu (the latest version even remembers the ones you expanded previously). Deploying Paul’s solution is really easy. You can paste the entire script to the Content Editor Web part, or deploy the pre-packed webpart that does that.

Mike Fortgens twittered me on a couple of things he needs clarified when using the Mind Manager Templates for SharePoint. This is a 4 minute demo to show how you can utilize the Mind Map that was made available in this week’s newsletter to create your own, custom templates.

In this 5 minute screencast, Lee Reed shows how to modify a links list by removing those annoying little tags before each of the headings in a list. Nice going, Lee.

I just got a request from Jason for the Mind Manager Permission Templates that go with the Team Site Template. Easy one on that… they’re already built in!