Q. How do I add a web page to my site?
You can add
a webpage to your SharePoint site by
adding it as a Web Part. Learn more
about Web Parts by accessing the
SharePoint Help file from your
SharePoint site's Nav Bar, and select
"Customizing the home page.
Q. How
do I Add a New User
Go to
Site Settings
Manage Users
Select Add Users
Q. How
do I Edit a Users Role
Go to
Site Settings
Manage Users
Select the user
Change the Role check box
Q. How do I Change a Users Password
Go to
Site Settings
View Information about Site Users
Select the user
Change Password
Add New Password
Confirm and OK
Q. How
do I Edit a Users Information
Go to
Site Settings
View Information about Site Users
Select the user
Edit User Information
Q. What is a Site Collection
Administrator?
Site
Collection definition: A set of Web
sites on a virtual server that have the
same owner and share administration
settings. Each site collection contains
a top-level Web site and can contain one
or more subsites. The only role that
has permission over the entire
collection of sites is the Site
Collection Administrator.
Q. How do I open my site in FrontPage
Open
FrontPage and select File | Open Site |
My Network Places | type in the complete
url (in the Site Name field) | Open.
Q. How do I view a usage report?
SharePoint has a built in usage report
in which you can view usage by User,
page, OS, Browser and referral URL. The
data collected in each of these
categories is total hits, recent month,
most recent day, most recent day hits.
Go to Site Settings
Site Administration
Select View Site Usage Data
Q.
What software do I need to customize my
site?
Considerable customization can be done
using only your browser. However, to
fully customize and utilize your
SharePoint Site it is necessary to use
FrontPage 2003 for SharePoint v.2 sites
and SharePoint Designer 2007 for
SharePoint v.3 sites.
Q. How
do I Add a Theme to my site
Go to
Site Settings
Apply theme to site
Select theme and Apply
Q. How
do I select the root level template
We
default the top level site to the Team
Site Template. We had an overwhelming
number of requests for this because
users were picking one of the other 7
templates (which do not display all of
the functionality of SharePoint) and
were dissatisfied.
When you create a sub site, you will be
prompted to select a template. You can
use one of the 8 provided by us, or at
the root level, upload/create your own.
Just add your template to the root level
template catalog and it will in the list
of available templates when you create
your sub site. For example: http://sharepoint.yourdomain.com
will be your home page with a link to
your subsite http://sharepoint.yourdomain.com/marketing.
You can even add a Marketing link to the
top nav bar of your home site through
FrontPage.
Q.
What software do I need?
Unless
you're going to stand up your own
SharePoint Server, there is no other
software needed. Although, if you plan
to do any site customization outside of
what the SharePoint interface is capable
of, you may need FrontPage 2003 or
SharePoint Designer 2007
Q. How
do I change the Quick Launch Bar?
This can
be done at the time of a List or doc
library creation (select "add this link
to the quick launch bar").
If you need to add any other links to
this bar, you can do it through
FrontPage. Open the default.aspx page
and select Add Link or double click on
the bar to edit.
Q. Are
there different Language Packs
available? Can My Top Level site be
changed to a language other than
English?
The
following language packs can be used on
all sub sites - Arabic, Danish, Dutch,
Finnish, French, German, Hebrew,
Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese,
Spanish, and Swedish.
Q. How
do I Add an Email Alert
Go to the
List you want to receive notifications
for
Select Alert Me
Select the Change Type
Select the Alert Frequency
You should receive an email confirming a
successful setup.
Q. How
do I Manage a Users Alerts
Go to
Site Settings
View Information about Site Users
Select the user
My Alerts on this site
Q. How
do I get emails?
You can
setup SharePoint Alerts that email based
on certain conditions (see Working with
Alerts in the SharePoint Help file from
your site's Nav Bar).
Q.
Information in Help doesn't match what I
see in my Web site.
Help is
written to document your Web site in its
default configuration. Your team or
administrator may have customized the
site so that it no longer matches
exactly with the information in Help.
Q.
Site users report that they can't get to
a list, document library, discussion
board, or survey, yet I can see it
listed on the Document Libraries,
Discussion Boards, or Lists page.
The
default view may have been deleted. Do
one of the following:
Set an existing view as the default view
Create a new view to use as the default
view
Q. I
can no longer modify a view by using my
Web browser
If a view
is modified extensively by using a
Microsoft Windows SharePoint
Services-compatible Web page editor,
such as Microsoft FrontPage 2002, it can
no longer be modified in the Web
browser.
Q. I don't see my name in the list of
users on the User Information page.
You have
not yet participated in the SharePoint
team Web site. Do any of the following:
Go to the Discussion Boards page and
participate in a discussion.
Go to the Document Libraries page and
upload a document to a library.
Go to the Documents and Lists page and
add an item to a list, or respond to a
survey.
Q. I
just created a team Web site, but when I
go to Site Settings, I'm denied access.
You have
not yet participated in the team Web
site. Do any of the following:
Go to the Discussion Boards page and
participate in a discussion.
Go to the Document Libraries page and
upload a document to a library.
Go to the Lists page and add an item to
a list, or respond to a survey.
Go to the Create Page page and add a new
list, document library, discussion
board, or survey to the site.
Q. I
can't change my password.
If you
use your Microsoft Windows NT domain
account to log onto your team Web site,
you can change the password for your Web
site by changing the password of your
domain user account.
Q. I
set Edit access in my list or survey to
None, and now no one can enter items in
the list or respond to the survey.
Edit
access includes the ability to create
items. There is no setting that prevents
users from editing their own items.
However, you can prevent them from
editing someone else's items by setting
Edit access to Only their own.
Q. I
get a message that I didn't type a valid
date.
Dates
must be in the format nn/nn/nnnn or n/n/nn.
Q. I
typed a Web address in a text field, and
when I view the item, only part of the
Web address is a hyperlink.
If the
Web address includes a space, type %20
for the space. For example,
http://example%20site.microsoft.com.
Q. I
typed a mailto: address in a text field,
and when I view the item, it isn't an
active hyperlink
All
mailto: addresses must be in lowercase
letters. For example:
mailto:someone@example.com
Q. Is my survey response truly
anonymous?
Your user
name does not appear in the results of a
survey that is set to hide user names.
However, an administrator with access to
the database that stores survey results
can match your identity to your
response.
Q. How
many questions can a survey have?
You can
add up to 1,024 questions to a survey.
Q. The
Upcoming Events view shows me events
that have already happened.
The
Upcoming Events view includes all events
that happen on the current day, since
midnight.
Q. I
can't copy and move files when I'm in
Folder view in a document library.
Your
security settings may be too strict. Try
the following:
In Microsoft Internet Explorer, on the
Tools menu, click Internet Options, and
click the Security tab.
In the Select a Web content zone to
specify its security settings box, click
Trusted sites, and then click Sites.
In the Add this Web site to the zone
box, type the URL of your team Web site,
and then click Add.
Q. I
want to edit a document in a document
library, but I have Microsoft Office
2000 or earlier.
Click the
hyperlink to open the document or save
it to your hard disk.
Edit the document.
Do one of the following:
If you are using Office 2000, on the
File menu, click Save as to save the
file with its original name to the
document library. This will over-write
the original file.
If you are using an earlier version of
Office, save the file to your hard disk,
and on the page that displays the
document library, click Upload Document
to copy the file to the document
library.
Q. I
get an error message when I try to
import a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
that was saved as a Web page.
Windows
SharePoint Services cannot import
spreadsheets that were saved with
interactivity. Try saving the
spreadsheet again, without
interactivity.
In Excel, on the File menu, click Save
as Web Page.
Click Republish: Sheet, and clear the
Add interactivity check box.
Click Save.
Q. My
Web site looks wrong and some features
are not working.
Web sites
based on Windows SharePoint Services
work best with Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5 or Netscape Navigator 6.0 or
later, installed on a computer that is
running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later.
If you are using another Web browser or
operating system, some pages may not
display properly, and some features may
not work.
Q. I
get an error message that the required
program may not be installed properly.
You may
have set up the required program to be
installed on first use. Run the program
so that it is fully installed on your
hard disk, and then try using the
feature again.