Learn those extra settings we can turn on to enhance the way people collaborate with documents in SharePoint. There is a set of out of the box settings available in a document library that we can configure to provide a friction free experience for document authors and content consumers.
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Enhance the way people collaborate with documents in SharePoint
1. @sanspug
San Diego SharePoint User Group
January 6, 2015
Microsoft San Diego
ENHANCE THE WAY PEOPLE
COLLABORATE WITH DOCUMENTS IN
SHAREPOINT
Haaron Gonzalez
Lead Solution Architect
Hershey Technologies
haarongonzalez@mvps.org
http://twitter.com/haarongonzalez
2. @sanspug
Quote from user
“Please don’t make me
learn new stuff,
I just want to get work
done! ”
End User from Legal
Department XYZ
company
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The Bottom Line
People just want to get work done
Technology enable us to achieve results
Learning is not sequential, it’s a personal experience
Knowledge is interactive!
People learn things they decide to learn, no what teacher
teach, keep in mind!
We no longer remember things we know we can find!
4. @sanspug
Haaron Gonzalez
Consultant
Lead Solution Architect at Hershey
Technologies
Independent Consultant & Instructor in
Mexico
Microsoft MVP
ASP/ASP.NET (2004 – 2008)
SharePoint Server (2009 until now)
Speaker/Community
Mexico SharePoint User Group
San Diego SharePoint User Group
Staff at Microsoft TechEd events
Blogger since 2005
Youtuber since 2008
haarongonzalez@mvps.org
youtube.com/haarongonzalez
twitter.com/haarongonzalez
facebook.com/haarongonzalez
5. @sanspug
SharePoint
The new SharePoint is all about getting things done
together.
SharePoint has a lot of features, capabilities, functionality
available out of the box (OOB).
What I will cover today:
How to simplify a site and make effective use of OOB capabilities
Make sure SharePoint works well for the end user and try to
maximize adoption
Focus on file management and user experience
Lots of demos!
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Common way to set up SharePoint for
dealing with documents
Like a file share (folders and default view)
1. Folders – lots of clicking, single dimension for viewing
2. No metadata – no navigation, no search
Great for contributors, a nightmare for consumers
@sjamFrom Scott Jamison slides
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Common way to set up SharePoint for
dealing with documents
Metadata instead of folders
1. Unfamiliar to users
2. Forces users to add metadata (they’re lazy and will pick the 1st
choice)
3. No good drag & drop & tag
4. No good offline experience
Great for consumers, a nightmare for contributors
@sjamFrom Scott Jamison slides
9. @sanspug
Concentrate more on outcomes
Features
Site Columns
Manage Metadata
Document Library
Views
Folders
Manage Metadata Filtering
Column default value settings
Drag and Drop
Permissions
Manage Metadata
Term Set
Search
One Drive for Business
Better
Content organization
Content discovery
Content consumption
Content authoring
Content filtering
Content security
Content versioning
You named!
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Site Metadata
Manage Metadata
It’s a service for storing Terms and use those
terms to Tag content
The goal is to use Terms to describe content
and provide better meaning to non relational or
unstructured data like files, presentations, excel
spreadsheets or word documents
We can define terms in a hierarchy up to 7
nested levels
Companies use it to describe strategic
terms or business topics that content can
be related to
SharePoint offers a lot of integrated features for
tagging content using terms and provide the
basics for knowledge management
11. @sanspug
San Diego SharePoint User Group
January 6, 2015
Microsoft San Diego
DEMO
Explore Term Store Management options
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Site Columns
Site columns are data type
definitions, centrally
managed and can be used
to reference a data value on
any a list or library in the
site collection or sub site.
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Site Columns
SC 1
SC 1
SC 1
SC 2
SC 1
SC 2
SC 1
SC 2
SC 1
SC 1
Site Column 1
Site Column 2
Site Collection
Subsite
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Site Column - Examples
Name Type Group Description
Topic Manage
Metadata
Intranet Columns Column that reference the
Topic Term Store
Department Choice Intranet Columns List of departments
Policy Type Choice Intranet Columns Regulatory, Internal,
Miscellaneous
Procedure Type Choice Intranet Columns Operational, Instruction,
Manual, Recovery
Form Type Choice Intranet Columns Request, to be determine.
Report Type Choice Intranet Columns Production, Imaging,
Financial, Compliancy
Summary Text Intranet Columns General information
column.
Review Date Date Intranet Columns Review date.
Publication Date Date Intranet Columns Publication date.
15. @sanspug
San Diego SharePoint User Group
January 6, 2015
Microsoft San Diego
DEMO
Explore Manage Metadata Term Store Create Topic site
column
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Site Content Types
Content Types are data structures
that represent a business entity,
they group Site Columns.
Content Types represent the
different types of information and
content existing on a site.
Content Type is a composite of
configuration settings for your
content, settings like Information
Management, Workflows.
Content Type support inheritance
so you can re-use and extend
settings
In order to provide meaning and context
to the content stored we need to define a
set of Content Types that make sense to
your business in order to provide a
consistent approach for the type of content
that the Intranet will support today and
tomorrow.
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Site Content Types - Examples
Name Description
Proposal We can define a content type by the type of document that we
represent, in this case a proposal.
Human Resource We can define a content type based on the Department that will
use it. So any document or file that exist in the Human Resource
site can be easily identified
Curriculum
Marketing
System Item Document Legal Document
Contract
Will
Power of
Attorney
Estimate cost
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Legal
Document
Title
Author
Created By
Created On
Topic (Manage Metadata)
Contract
Title
Author
Created By
Created On
Topic (Manage Metadata)
Contract Type: Choice
Summary: Plain Text
Review By Date: Short date
Publication Date
NDA
Title
Author
Created By
Created On
Topic (Manage Metadata)
Summary: Plain Text
Review By Date: Short date
Estimate Cost
Title
Author
Created By
Created On
Topic (Manage Metadata)
Estimate Type: Choice
Amount: NUmber
Summary: Plain Text
Lease
Title
Author
Created By
Created On
Topic (Manage Metadata)
Summary: Plain Text
Publication Date
Site Content Types - Examples
19. @sanspug
San Diego SharePoint User Group
January 6, 2015
Microsoft San Diego
DEMO
Create Human Resource Document Content Type and
configure in document library
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Views
Views allow us to visualize the
data in different way. Highly
flexible for create
representation of our content.
Use a view to display recent
documents for content
consumers and a another view
to display folder structure for
content creators
21. @sanspug
San Diego SharePoint User Group
January 6, 2015
Microsoft San Diego
DEMO
Modify All Documents view and create All Folders view
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Folders
Folders are great for people that contribute with content.
Represent a hierarchical view of the data. Folders are not so
great for people that consume the content, they need to drill
down in order to get what they want.
Three valid reasons for folders:
Security – Security Trimming
Location-based default values
SharePoint Library Sync & OneDrive for Business
We can associate Metadata terms to a folder hierarchy for auto
default metadata values in content using Default Column
Values
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San Diego SharePoint User Group
January 6, 2015
Microsoft San Diego
DEMO
Enhance existing folder and apply permissions
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Metadata Navigation and Filtering
Enables metadata-based
navigation and filtering.
Provides tree view
hierarchies and filter
controls to improve
navigation and filtering of
the contained items
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San Diego SharePoint User Group
January 6, 2015
Microsoft San Diego
DEMO
Enable Metadata Filtering feature and configure in
document library
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Sync local copy
People like to work they way the know. So with
OneDrive for Business we can enable user to work
locally in offline mode, content creators will just drag and
drop to local folder
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Proposals
Customer Documents
RFQ Specs SOW
Cost and Pricing
Information
Purchasing
Cost and
Pricing
Engineering
Documents
Technical
Documents
Contracts
Contractual
Documents
Subcontracts
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Metadata
Document Type
Customer Documents
Cost and Pricing Information
Engineering Document
Contracts
Document Topic
RFQ
Specifications
SOW
Purchasing
Cost and Price
Technical Doc
Contractual Doc
Proposals
Customer
Documents
RFQ
Specs
SOW
Cost and
Pricing
Information
Purchasing
Cost and
Pricing
Engineering
Documents
Technical
Documents
Contracts
Contractual
Documents
Subcontracts
31. @sanspug
Haaron Gonzalez
Consultant
Lead Solution Architect at Hershey
Technologies
Independent Consultant & Instructor in
Mexico
Microsoft MVP
ASP/ASP.NET (2004 – 2008)
SharePoint Server (2009 until now)
Speaker/Community
Mexico SharePoint User Group
San Diego SharePoint User Group
Staff at Microsoft TechEd
Blogger since 2005
haarongonzalez@mvps.org
youtube.com/haarongonzalez
twitter.com/haarongonzalez
facebook.com/haarongonzalez
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