5 tips for working with SharePoint 2010

December 12, 2012

Now that you have a good feel for what is possible in SharePoint 2010 and how to do common tasks, here are some tips for taking advantage of some more advanced functionality and getting the most out of your SharePoint site. This story accompanies our SharePoint 2010 cheat sheet, which provides a full introduction to the software's interface and features. You can use set up alerts to let you know if anything in a library, or a specific document, has been changed. Click to view larger image. 1. Set up alerts. SharePoint can be configured to send you an email or an SMS text message whenever things are changed on either a specific item in a library or if anything in a library as a whole changes. This is useful since you won't then have to go back and manually check each SharePoint site for changes. You can set up alerts using the Alert Me button in the Ribbon on any given SharePoint content area. Clicking it brings up the New Alert window, where you add a title to the alert, the delivery method (as mentioned, either an email to a specified address or a phone number for an SMS text message), the context of the alert (whether an alert is sent for any change at all, or only if new items are added, if existing items are modified, or if items are deleted), the scope of an alert (if anything changes, if a document changes, if a document you created or last modified changes), and how quickly the alert is sent after a change (you can set up an immediate alert, a daily summary, or a weekly summary, and you can customize the time for this). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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