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In the first two installments of this series, I did a high level overview of the solution and a walkthrough of how to create a custom list to access external videos for display in LyteBox. Today I’ll walk through how to configure a document library so that it can be used as a storage and display mechanism for internal screencasts.

I describe a problem whereby document libraries having multiple content types use the default content type when documents are saved regardless of the selected content type.

We just finished today’s live online workshop, The Basics of Content Types. This is the area were people who participated in the session can leave their feedback. Let’s see what they have to say…

In the previous article, I made use of the ‘Contacts’ list template, provided out-of-the-box by SharePoint, to create a list which will act as the backend for our mailing list. In this article, I will show you how to configure the ‘Contact’ content type, create a custom subscription form and do some sort of customization. The intention of these customizations is not only to make the subscription form look different from the out-of-the-box list forms but also to show you the power, simplicity, and efficiency of SharePoint Designer 2007.

Although implementing a KPI dashboard like this one might look complicated it is not. By using the Data View Web Part you can create your own dashboards plus extras. The solution does not do anything special (only displays colorful icons) but your managers will love it.

I thought of another solution using Information Policy Settings and a work flow on the list. The idea for this came from a screencast I saw somewhere that used document expiration policies to serve as a publishing mechanism for Announcements. I thought information management could be a good candidate to solve this problem. After some testing, it will work but there are some caveats to this solution:

I have been working on a project with Ayman El-Hattab from Egypt SharePoint User Group over the past month. He has put together a series of screencasts, in Arabic, regarding SharePoint Content Types.