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As novice SharePoint site managers, many people create columns within lists and libraries that are only useful for that specific list.

Laura Rogers and I will be delivering the second live online session of “Excel and SharePoint: I didn’t know you could do that!”. Based upon feed back from the first session, we have removed the two basic modules and updated the content to include using Excel to help create formulas for calculated columns and a deep dive into the tool panel within the datasheet view.

Jennifer sent me a question and as I was formulating an answer, I realized this might make for a pretty good community discussion. The short form is, if you are creating a Knowledge Base, are there an basic content types you would create and how do you decide what they are?

From previous “how-to” articles, you may know that several out-of-the-box Content Types belong to the group _Hidden.

This means that when you first start using the site, you can not create child Content Types based on these types. Also, if you want to aggregate Blog Posts with a Content Query Web Part, for instance, you [...]

“Is there a way to automatically change from View A to View B when a user opens a SharePoint folder?” Normally, I’d say “Unfortunately, the answer is No” since folders are part of the list and will always use whatever Views have been setup for the list itself (no separation in “Default” view between folders – they all will use the same), but after reading this question, I decided to take on the problem to see what (if anything) could be done to get around this.

For some reason, by default the Event content type is not exposed as a parent content type.
This means that it is not available to be used to create children. We handled this problem in the Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint workshop last week.
Tim Carlson sent me an update on a different way [...]

Once upon a time, in the Land of Unrealistic Expectations, there lived a mean old Project Sponsor. This Project Sponsor was known throughout all the land as being the meanest, most pedantic project owner that ever lived….a fact made all the more difficult given that this particular Project Sponsor was the Queen of the Land.
She [...]