Microsoft® FrontPage® Version 2002 Inside Out

Author Jim Buyens Pages 1264 Disk 1 Companion CD(s) Level Int/Adv Published 05/02/2001 ISBN 9780735612846 Price $44.99 To see this book's discounted price, select a reseller below.	More Information About the Book Table of Contents Sample Chapter Index Related Series Related Books About the Author Support: Book & CD Rate this book

Chapter 35: Using SharePoint Team Web Sites

• Creating a New SharePoint Team Web Site
• Using Document Libraries
• Using Web Discussions
• Using Subscriptions
• Using Discussion Boards
• Using Lists
• Creating New Libraries, Discussions, and Lists
• Creating a New Survey
• Administering SharePoint Team Web Site Settings
• Creating Custom List Pages
• Creating and Modifying Library View Pages
• Creating and Modifying List View Pages
• Creating and Modifying List Forms
• In Summary…

Chapter 35 Using SharePoint Team Web Sites

Lists are central to the operation of a SharePoint team Web site. Physically, a list is just a database table. But the power of lists comes from the fact that you can create them, update them, display them, and if necessary delete them using standard Web pages that team members can quickly learn to use.

SharePoint team Web sites provide the following services to anyone with a Web browser, connectivity to your server, and the necessary permissions:

• Document Libraries. A SharePoint team Web site document library has two components: a folder full of documents and a list that describes them. You can search for documents using either the document content itself or the data in the list:
• Web Discussions. After an Office 2000 or Office XP user saves a document to a Web server as HTML (and recall: this is an integrated, one-step process), Web visitors browsing that document can make comments using a discussion toolbar. SharePoint Team Services stores these comments separately from the document itself. Then, when the document creator opens the document, all the comments appear seamlessly merged.
• Search page. This feature uses Microsoft Indexing Service to search for documents within the current SharePoint team Web site.

The clients for these features are either a browser (for the Web-based tasks) or standard Office applications (for document creation and retrieval).

• Discussion Boards. This is the sort of feature most people call a threaded discussion group. Within a team Web site, you can create as many Discussion Boards as you like, and each board can accommodate an almost unlimited number of threads and messages. You can sort and present the messages any way you like, and purge old messages automatically.
• Lists. These are the basic unit of storage in a SharePoint team Web site. They can contain a list of announcements, a list of upcoming events, a list of scheduled tasks, a list of team members or contacts, a list of excuses, or anything else you like. The number of lists and the fields they contain are totally at your discretion.
• Subscriptions. With this feature, team members can ask to be notified whenever a specified document or folder changes. SharePoint Team Services detects such changes and sends the notifications by e-mail.
• Administration. This Web-based tool provides control over the preceding applications.

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Last Updated: Friday, July 6, 2001