SharePoint Use Cases

When planning a SharePoint site, you will need to plan check-in and check-out. Each document library allows you to check-in/out documents and this feature cannot be turned off. On the other hand you can control if check-in/check-out will be required to edit documents. The average end user might have a problem understanding the entire Check-in/Check-out [...]

In my previous post I tried to explain how can you forbid your end users to delete files from document libraries. I did not provide much details on how to setup this and some visitors raised additional questions about that. In this blog series I will provide step-by-step description how to achieve this. Creating custom [...]

While working on the SharePoint implementation I encountered a problem with delete permissions. SharePoint document libraries do not allow you to set permissions in such a manner to allow users editing/deleting only their own documents. Similar feature exists for other lists like team discussions and blog comments but it does not exist for document libraries!? [...]

In Part 1 of this post I discussed the possible options to obtain a document URL for a document in the document library. With this post I will explain how you can achieve this with a simple workflow. In your document library create a column “Encoded URL” (Single line of text). It will be used [...]

One of my readers (Joel) sent me an email with the following question: I am trying to do something that I think should be simple in SP: display the URLs of Word docs in a doc library. I can send the URL as a link in an e-mail, but I can’t figure out how to [...]