In SharePoint, there is a little known capability, called “per location views”. This means that you can create views that are only accessible from certain locations.

SharePoint Saturday: The Challenge of Unstructured Content, Concepts and Terminologies, Taxonomy and ECM Adoption Techniques, Why should Taxonomy matter to me

Jason at Get the ‘Point has written an extremely useful article for those just getting started with lists and libraries in SharePoint, How to make a SharePoint list look the way you want . He threw in the “kitchen sink”, showing just about everything you can do to get started managing how your lists display [...]

The question of the day comes from Andy:
I have been struggling with trying to figure out how to create a view from a list and filter it where a multi-lines of text field is empty.  Is this possible?  I am using WSS 3.0. I am referring to when nothing is entered into the column on the [...]

The question of the day comes from Ryne:
Within a SharePoint List, you can specify that users can only see/edit the items they have created. In a document library, which is nothing more than a sophisticated list according to Microsoft, you do not have that option available OOTB [Out of the Box]. Is there [...]

Guest post from Paul Grenier, author of AutoSponge – A Non-developer’s Blog About Administering SharePoint
 I have a love-hate relationship with MOSS 2007 surveys.  I love the branching logic functionality and I like the built-in reporting.  But I hate the lack of workflow support out-of-the-box and I detest the inability to create new views of the [...]

I was looking through some of the questions on the SharePointU forums and came across a question about multiple Gantt views against a single set of data. It seemed like a quick solution to demo, so I’ve inserted a screencast below. The Project Task list is used to setup the basic Widget creation process. Here’s [...]

The question of the day comes from Frank in Michigan:
I’m seeing something that’s a bit off on a global team calendar.  I created a view named “Condensed” to be displayed [through a web part] on the front page.  Everything looks exactly like I want it to except the items aren’t sorted in date order as they [...]

 
The major topic in the EndUserSharePoint.com Shanghai workshops this week has been structuring information. The tip of the week is this: Consider creating “buckets” (libraries) for each of your major content areas and utilize views to recreate the feeling of hierarchical structure.
Here’s an example…
The Power User group yesterday was trying to manage all of the [...]

The question of the day comes from Jacek in California regarding changing views within a web part: “I have mostly got the behavior (I want) but I am puzzled how to modify <Current View> to display additional columns I added to Blog.” Yeah, that’s a weird name on that one. It threw me when I [...]