SHAREPOINT 2007An Overview of SharePoint 2007 Features

INTRODUCTION TO SHAREPOINT

Most functions in SharePoint, once you find them, are very easy to use and manipulate.

SharePoint is an excellent resource especially for:oShared document repositoriesoCollaborative group work

CALENDAR

Great For Scheduling:oEventsoMeetingsoDue dates

EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS

o Receive an email notification when changes are made

DISCUSSION BOARDo Great for group communication and collaboration

LIBRARIES

o All your documents can be stored in one placeo No more emailing attachments back and forth

Uploading is easy

WIKI LIBRARY

o Perfect for collaborative documentso Use instead of Word when creating

collaborative documents

Linking to another page is surprisingly simple

LISTS & IMPORTED SPREADSHEETS

Go from this…

You can essentially create a spreadsheet without leaving SharePoint

To this…

For this project you might need a contacts list or a timeline list

CUSTOM VIEW

o You can create a “view” of a list

Here’s the standard view…but I don’t really like it…

This is the view I prefer

SITES AND WORKSPACESo Break your site into different sections, known

as workspaces

WEB PARTS

o Everything circled is a web parto Very similar to iGoogle

SITE TEMPLATES

o There are a number of templates from which to chooseo Each template has a description for best use

Template Name

Best Use

SURVEY

Get to know

your

classmates!

MAIN SHAREPOINT FEATURES

o Blogo Calendaro Discussion Boardo Librarieso Wikiso Lists and Imported Spreadsheetso Custom Viewso My Siteo Sites and Workspaceso Site Templateso Surveyo Web Parts

QUESTIONS?

Thank You!!