Best practices for organizing documents in SharePoint 2010
1. Best Practices for Organizing Documentsin SharePoint 2010 Ágnes Molnár SharePoint Server MVP, Senior Solutions Consultant
2. About the Speaker... Ágnes Molnár SharePoint Server MVP Senior Solutions Consultant, BA Insight http://www.BAInsight.com http://aghy.hu E-mail: Agnes.Molnar@BAInsight.com Twitter: @molnaragnes
3. Agenda Introduction: SharePoint 2010 Capabilities for supporting Document Management Best Practices: Folders vs. Document Sets Metadata management Content Types Content Organizer Rules
4. Document Management General Requirements Store, edit, organize, etc. Properties and metadata Version management Permission management Workflows Content Types Document Templates Extensibility Search – and Find... 4
8. Location: Folders vs. Document Sets Document Sets: Components, similar to folders, that enable users to collaborate on related documents without having to create a new document library or site.
10. Location: Folders vs. Document Sets Prefer Folders: If you need a hierarchy inside If you don’t need the extra capabilities of Document Sets Prefer Document Sets: If you don’t need hierarchy inside If you do need the extra capabilities For example: Contracts Project documents Usability studies Knowledge Management repositories
11. Agenda Introduction: SharePoint 2010 Capabilities for supporting Document Management Best Practices: Folders vs. Document Sets Metadata management Content Types Content Organizer Rules
12. Metadata Management Managed Metadata: A hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can defineand then use as attributes for items. Benefits: Consistentuse of terminology Better search results Dynamic
14. Metadata Management Best Practices for Metadata Management Has to be defined by the business! But usually they cannot Help but don’t drive! Users are not taxonomy experts - Teach them! Managing metadata Using metadata Think in managed metadata Build hierarchy – instead of flat term stores Be careful of legal requirements
15. Content Types Create Content Types at the top level of Site Collection – except if you have other business requirements Can be used on all sites Can be the parent of other content types Can be managed together Use your own Content Type groups instead of the default „Custom Content Types”
16. Agenda Introduction: SharePoint 2010 Capabilities for supporting Document Management Best Practices: Folders vs. Document Sets Metadatamanagement Content Types Content Organizer Rules
24. Content Organizer Rules Use if you have clear organizing requirements Deploy a good Search Architecture Search Based Navigation Don’t forget to turn on the Content Organizer Feature – on the Target Site too! Don’t forget to implement Content Types in the Target Libraries Teach the users!
The SharePoint Server has gained a lot of popularity with the release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With the inclusion of document management and enterprise search capabilities, as well as Records Center and Excel Services modules, more and more companies are turning toward SharePoint in search of solutions to their business problems. With this growth comes big opening for business opportunities, but those who don’t have the right training approach stand to lose out on a customer’s or internal business units satisfaction.Some of the SharePoint environment roles are often defined as IT related, and information workers are often overlooked.Lack of training is the number one