Nov
21
Workshop Next Week: A Beginner’s Guide to Content Types
Just a quick reminder, if you are planning on attending next week’s Beginner’s Guide to Content Types online workshop, it’s time to register!
I know everyone had an exciting day at Joel’s party yesterday, but it’s time to get back to work now. Congratulations, Joel, on a HUGE success.
Mark
Nov
12
The Basics of Content Types: A Beginner’s Primer
Yesterday’s workshop, Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint, used Content Types to help drive exposure of specific events for pseudo sub-calendars. As much as anything else, many people in the workshop were fascinated with the possibilities of using Content Types to manage information structures.
I’m going to publish a series of articles over the next two [...]
Oct
14
Free 20 Module ScreenCast: A Beginner’s Guide to Content Types
Chris (Quick) has an article coming out tomorrow, A Case Study for Content Types: Vendor Invoices, Quotes and Contracts. To prepare you for his real world walk through, I’m making available a set of modules on how to plan and implement content types for a document library, A Beginner’s Guide to Content Types. This was [...]
Aug
7
EndUserSharePoint.com Tale of Three Content Types
Introduction
The idea of self-documenting code refers to efforts that make application development less time-consuming. Mark Miller documented an example of a self-documenting SharePoint site based on something we learned in Bob Mixon’s course. The New Site Request Form allows SharePoint environments to grow while reducing administrative efforts. New and future requests link to the “roadmap” [...]
Jun
27
EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” – Customizing a Task List (Part II)
Dessie Lunsford
Points-of-Sharing
If you haven’t read through the previous article in this series and wish to follow along in the walkthrough, I encourage you to read it first, especially since we’ll be working with the Excel spreadsheet we created last time.
In the previous article on “Customizing a Task List“, we created a “Date Completed” column using [...]
Jun
25
EndUserSharePoint.com: A Beginner’s Guide to Content Types
This week’s screencast, A Beginner’s Guide to Content Types, walks through the process of creating Content Types to help manage a Documentation Library. This is a continuing series of screencasts that started with Doug Cornelius ‘ case study and another screencast, Overview of Content Types.
This week’s screencast should give you a basic idea of [...]
Jun
17
EndUserSharePoint.com: Free screencast – Case Study Using Content Types
I am making last week’s Subscriber Only newsletter and screencast available so that people can see what type of information is included in the EndUserSharePoint.com weekly newsletters.
The newsletter includes a seven minute screencast, giving an overview of how Content Types can be used to display selected documents in managed pages.
If you find the screencast interesting and [...]