SharePoint Online: New Documents View – First Impressions

Microsoft has rolled out it's new version of the SharePoint Online document library to those users who have opted in to the first release program. More details on this are provided in your Office 365 message centre or from this page https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-a-document-library-3b5976dd-65cf-4c9e-bf5a-713c10ca2872?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US. On a personal not I have been working with SharePoint document libraries for... Continue Reading →

April 11, 2016 0

Introduction to Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010 – Part 2

In the previous post in this series I covered the basics of using custom columns or metadata in document libraries. In this much shorter article I will take the concepts already covered and extend of them by introducing the lookup column type. Using the Lookup Column Type The lookup column type can be used to add metadata to... Continue Reading →

January 25, 2011 0

Introduction to Document Libraries in SharePoint 2010 – Part 1

Probably the most commonly used features of SharePoint are the document management features. This series of articles will attempt to highlight some of the functionality that is available to users in configuring and managing document libraries. I would like to add that the following is not designed as a guide to best practise, but is purely... Continue Reading →