Frequently when getting data into SharePoint 2010 from Excel 2010 it becomes necessary to create named regions in the Excel Worksheets before getting them into SharePoint 2010. Often times when working with clients or students I find that they don’t know how to do this, so I decided to make a blog post to quickly … Continue reading How to Create a Named Region in Excel 2010 using SharePoint
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How to Activate the Publishing Feature in SharePoint 2010
The publishing feature adds a bunch of things to a SharePoint site. It is one of the features that has a site (spweb) scope but a site collection (spsite) dependency. In other words, it has to be activated at the site collection level first and then site by site must be activated at the individual … Continue reading How to Activate the Publishing Feature in SharePoint 2010
How To Correctly Configure and Use Document Workspaces in SharePoint 2010
Document Workspaces were very popular in SharePoint 2007. In SharePoint 2010 they are often overlooked. I have found that some of the functionality is a bit weird but with a little tweaking, they can be made very very useful. They are an excellent collaboration solution especially when an organization wants all of the functionality of … Continue reading How To Correctly Configure and Use Document Workspaces in SharePoint 2010
How to use Best Bets SharePoint 2010 Search
In this blog, I will set up a Best Bet and keyword in SharePoint 2010. Best Bets are a great way for Site Collection Administrators to help guide users to the content they are looking for as well as promoting some content to users on an as-needed basis. In this blog I have created an out-of-the-box … Continue reading How to use Best Bets SharePoint 2010 Search
Publish a Form with InfoPath Forms Services for SharePoint 2010
In this blog I will go through the process of creating and then publishing a simple form to be used as a template in SharePoint 2010 using Forms Services. This feature is only available in the Enterprise Version of SharePoint 2010. I will perform the following steps: 1. Ensure the Forms Services Feature is enabled … Continue reading Publish a Form with InfoPath Forms Services for SharePoint 2010
Configuring Auditing in SharePoint 2010
Auditing comes out of the box in SharePoint 2010. Although there is nothing to prevent you from doing so, auditing is not the tool to use to track what users are doing to satisfy curiosity. Auditing is something you do because you have to. It is something you are required to do in order to … Continue reading Configuring Auditing in SharePoint 2010
How to create custom security levels on a SharePoint 2010 Site and apply it to users.
This blog shows how to create a custom security level on a SharePoint Site and apply it to users. Although it's always best to attempt to manage the permissions at the site collection level, often you cannot do this and at the same time protect the content within specific areas. When the need arises you … Continue reading How to create custom security levels on a SharePoint 2010 Site and apply it to users.
Setting Default Metadata Values in SharePoint 2010
In this blog I will be migrating several documents from a file share into SharePoint 2010. On the file share they are unstructured data. When we migrate them into SharePoint they will be seen as the content type courseOutline and they will have an Instructor and technical department site column attached to them as metadata. … Continue reading Setting Default Metadata Values in SharePoint 2010
Loop Through Documents with SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow
This is a technique I use to emulate the idea of looping through a bunch of documents in a document library in order to execute a workflow on them when they already exist in a document library. I call it the poor man's foreach! To start, I have a normal SharePoint 2010 Team Site with … Continue reading Loop Through Documents with SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow
SharePoint 2010 Web Part Series – Page Viewer Web Part
In this blog we will explore a use of the Page Viewer Web Part in SharePoint 2010. We will use the Page Viewer Web Part in order to bring in an outside web page and display it within SharePoint (this is done behind the scenes via IFrames). This will allow us to avoid having to … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Web Part Series – Page Viewer Web Part