Posts fordocument libraries

Top 5 benefits of Sharepoint check-in/check-out

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - January 21, 2009

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…

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Document libraries: Specify which items users can edit/delete – explained – Part 1

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - June 16, 2008

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…

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Document libraries: Specify which items users can edit/delete

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - February 19, 2008

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…

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Displaying the document URL in a document library column – part 2

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - May 25, 2007

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…

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Displaying the document URL in a document library column

SharePoint - Toni Frankola - May 24, 2007

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…

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