Create Document Workspace from Microsoft Word

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{lang: ‘ar’}Word 2007 gives the option to publish a word document onto a SharePoint Document Workspace, edit local or server copy,  and keep it synchronized. This article explains the following Creating a Document Workspace from Microsoft Word Steps to edit from Word (local copy) Editing from SharePoint (server copy) Opening local copy and getting updates [...]

Display Sharepoint Site in Outlook

outlook folder for sharepoint

{lang: ‘ar’}Using Microsoft Outlook and would like to display a Sharepoint list or site (or any web page) in outlook? Here are the steps: Open Microsoft Outlook Create a new folder, File > New > Folder Give a name for the folder, say Sharepoint Right-click the folder created and select Properties. The Properties window is displayed, accept [...]

Track items by Active or Closed in Sharepoint Discussion Board

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{lang: ‘ar’}[table-of-content] Scenario In Sharepoint Team Discussion Board you have a Status column with values Active and Closed and would like to track the items based on Status and find that it is not possible as the change in status id not reflected in all the threaded items. The output from a sample item is [...]

Create a Data View using SP Designer

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{lang: ‘ar’}Using Sharepoint Designer one can create a custom data view that can get data from several sources such as web services, xml data, database queries, and Sharepoint Lists. The view populates the data in real time and hence can be made available to the user’s as a web page. This article outlines the method [...]

Sharepoint Row Highlight using Behaviors

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{lang: ‘ar’}If you have a long list of items in a Sharepoint list, you may find it convenient to highlight the current row the cursor is on. While there are couple of ways of accomplishing this, this article explains the method of highlighting using Behaviors in Sharepoint Designer. Several tasks can be done using Behaviors, [...]

Creating a custom workflow using SP Designer

{lang: ‘ar’}Sharepoint has an out of the box workflow that is quite basic and serves well as long as you don’t have any conditions to be factored when the workflow is initiated. For example, you may have two departments Finance and IT and depending on the department selected, the approval process or the steps involved [...]

Using Sharepoint List Default Preview Style

{lang: ‘ar’}Sharepoint by default displays the list items in a tabular format. The ‘title’ of the list item is hyperlinked and the user has to click the link to get further details on the item. This method though useful, also involves time as the user has to click each link to get all details. Sharepoint [...]

How to add Links and Tabs

{lang: ‘ar’}The hyperlinks displayed in the Quick Launch region can be modified or new links added. Creating new tabs is also easy with just a few clicks. This article outlines the above:

Create a custom New Item or Edit Form

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{lang: ‘ar’}One of the intriguing aspects of the NewForm.aspx or EditForm.aspx in Sharepoint 2007 is that the fields are not displayed and hence not editable. For instance, you may wish to selectively hide certain columns either in a New Item form or Edit form. This article outlines the steps required to accomplish this as well [...]

Team Discussion Board – Sort by Status

{lang: ‘ar’}Sharepoint Team Discussion Board is used to initiate discussions on topics, gather feedback, and view them either in threaded or flat view format. It may also be required to report on the status, either Active or Closed to meet a Business or Audit requirement. However, it is not possible to facilitate this using the [...]

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