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Earlier this week, Doug Cornelius wrote a nice case study article on how Goodwin Procter LLP is using a single document library to manage documentation for multiple applications. Each application has its documentation exposed through its own published page. This week’s EndUserSharePoint.com newsletter includes a screencast on how to manage pages and document exposure through [...]

The question of the day:
I have several webapps in my implementation which means that content types created in one site hierarchy are not available in the others – is there any way to copy them from one site structure to another?
Response from Mark Miller
I have not found a way to transfer content types between apps. [...]

The question of the day comes from Catriona:
In one of my sites I seem to have renamed the ‘Title’ in my Item content type – I thought it wouldn’t let me do this but it did although I think what it has done is create a ‘customised’ item content type as a child of the [...]

Today’s newsletter went out to over 2100 subscribers. I discussed the problems of communicating the need for Content Types and have decided to create screencasts to show not just the “how”, but the “why” of using Content Types.
The Content Type concept has been harder to get across than I originally thought it would be. In [...]

For the past month I’ve been spending a lot of time working with Content Types, trying to get the final installment done for the SharePoint 101 Tricks and Traps ebook. I was working on something this morning that might turn out to be useful for a basic End User just starting to get their hands [...]

For the past few weeks, the EndUserSharePoint.com Weekly Newsletter has been taking a look at Site Columns and Content Types.
This week’s installment includes two downloads: an expandable/collapsible map examining inheritance and hierarchy in Content Types, and a large poster of the map completely expanded (1379 x 5043 pixels).
If you would like a copy of the [...]

This week’s newsletter is an Introduction to Site Columns and Content Types, one of the most overlooked subjects when it comes to End Users. Here’s is an excerpt:
The single greatest problem of a beginning End User is not having an understanding of how to structure a library or list so that it can be part [...]