In parts 1 to 3, we looked at getting documents into SharePoint, adding metadata, using that metadata to create attractive and useful views of the documents, and using that metadata within documents. We also looked at a couple of techniques for leveraging information from other SharePoint lists. So now your users can quickly and easily find their documents, and use information from SharePoint in their documents. But still, they complain... ;-) How do I find the right template I'm meant to use for this kind of document? How can I quickly see all these kinds of documents in all our sites?

There is a company with a lot of employees. The requirement is to automate the request and approval process for employee holidays. Each employee has to be able to submit requests for holidays. The request has to be approved or rejected by the employee's manager. Each employee has to have the ability to view only his/her requests. Each manager has to have the right to approve or reject only requests that are requested by employees in his/her department. After the manager's actions, the manager has to be able to only read requests related to his/her department.

In our last tip, we started with the following scenario: Your Boss tells you that the budget has been freed up and new capital for upgrades will be available next year. Thus we will be purchasing SQL 2008R2 and MOSS 2010. He wants you to determine an upgrade plan and any initial tips on performing the upgrade. He wants you to confirm what versions need to be purchased and see if we can run through a test upgrade over the next few weeks on test box that is currently not being used. At this point, you are ready for the actual test upgrade. Your Boss is excited that you have gotten this far and is happy with the progress made. Thus what are your next steps to get your test upgrade complete and a site available for some quick te

In SharePoint 2010, one of the user problems is when a user is a member of a particular site, but when he navigates to My Profile and goes to the Memberships tab, he or she isn't able to view his memberships.

In SharePoint 2010, one of the most frequent enhancement requests that come from clients is to add a custom property to property restrictions in the (Out of The Box) advance search box. By default, properties like Author, Description, Name and others are provided in property restrictions. But how about a case where users want to search documents for a particular department or some other criteria?

Creating a list instance from "Out of the box" predefined SharePoint lists is easy but limited. How about creating our custom list via Visual Studio .Net 2010?

Creating an "Out of the box" predefined SharePoint list is easy but limited. How about creating a custom list via Visual Studio.Net 2010 and adding custom list fields with different data types?

When we try to open PDF files from a SharePoint 2010 library using IE 8 or above, we get prompted to Save the file and it does not open in the browser directly. In a vanilla SharePoint implementation the browser always prompts the user to save the PDF file rather than opening it. This behavior can be very annoying for end users and a bigger concern is that such behavior promotes saving the files on the local computer even if the document is designed for view only.

The default SharePoint 2010 list forms (DispForm , EditForm & NewForm) are quite generic (as they were with previous SharePoint versions).. Wouldn't it be great to be able to customize the look & feel of them? InfoPath 2010 to the rescue...

There are numerous solutions out there in the web to create a Slideshow web part. But finding one with jQuery was a tough job for me when I started working on this. JQuery was chosen based on the requirement given.