Chapter 4. Setting up a document collaboration site

 

This chapter covers

  • Site branding
  • Document libraries and the collaboration features
  • Custom lists and lookup fields
  • Library and list web parts
  • Connected web parts
  • Publishing sites

In the previous part of this book we covered SharePoint terminology, capabilities, and the out-of-the-box features. What I didn’t do was exercise your imagination for designing and creating powerful sites. The chapters in this part are going to guide you through a step-by-step process of how to configure and deliver a site.

In this chapter you’ll build out a scenario for meeting the requirements for managing a proposal and resume document workspace. Why would you want to do that? This scenario touches on the common problems associated with organizing associated documents. There are many options to do this, and the implementation that follows will go over one of the possibilities.

4.1. Managing business proposal resources

4.2. SharePoint Foundation features

4.3. SharePoint Server features

4.4. Summary