Calculated Boost Field Use Cases
Calculated Boost Field is a field which enables you to do calculate based on other columns like SharePoint Calculated column. With Calculated Boost, you can design powerful formula and complete complicated calculation. Calculated Boost supports more column types than SharePoint OOTB calculated column, including People, Lookup, Note, ID, Content Type etc. Even better, you can […]
How to specify columns permissions based on user role
Since Column/View Permission released from 2008, it becomes the hot product which helps customers to resolve a lots of column permission issues. With SharePoint Column/View Permission, you can protect your sensitive information by hiding the columns which contains the sensitive contents, or restrict the users to edit columns by setting the columns as read-only. Also, […]
How to grant permissions in Permission Manager 1.0
SharePoint is a popular information sharing platform which allows users to connect and cooperate, both locally and internationally; but managing permissions in SharePoint can be a complex and tedious task for administrators. SharePoint does allow administrators to grant permissions from a site or list, down to item level, but permission assignments are explicit and varied […]
How to Know Your SharePoint Permissions
If you are a SharePoint administrator, you may have this problem during permission management. How to do you find out who has what permissions? On SharePoint 2010, a new add-on will greatly reduce administrator headaches and the tedium of checking user permissions. I. Native SharePoint Environment 1. Select a site. 2. Enter Site permissions page […]
How to Secure a List
Guaranteeing list security is usually considered a vital issue for administrators. In this blog, I will give you a brief introduction to the various aspects that will influence list security, so you may take them into consideration when you set list level security settings next time. A SharePoint farm consists of the following element hierarchy. […]
SharePoint Validations
SharePoint 2010 introduces two new validation types for lists. One type for column validation which applies a validation check against the current column only. A second type for the list item that provides a comparison of values from more than one column. Column Validation With SharePoint 2007, Microsoft provides validation settings for columns. The most […]
Understand and Configure Metadata Navigation and Filtering
SharePoint 2010 Metadata Navigation is one new feature that enables users to navigation through lists and libraries based on the configuration of the metadata. This feature improves navigation and filtering of the items or documents by means of metadata tree view hierarchies and filter controls. The figure is an example of the metadata navigation in […]