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There might be times when you want to delete an entire document library in SharePoint 2010 as part of your processes and procedures for document management in SharePoint. To be able to delete a document library in SharePoint 2010, you must have Design permission on the SharePoint document library. Users who are members of the Site Owners SharePoint Group have this permission by default. By default, document libraries inherit permissions from their parent, which is the SharePoint site on which they reside. Therefore, any owner of the site on which the SharePoint document library is located will be able to delete the document library.You can break inherited permissions on a SharePoint document library and assign custom permissions to it, so that an additional group of users and/or groups can delete the SharePoint document library Assign custom permissions on a SharePoint 2010 document library To assign custom permissions to a document library in SharePoint 2010: 1.Log in as a Sh...

Document libraries reside on sites in SharePoint. And a site belongs to a parent SharePoint site collection.In the event that you want to move a document library in SharePoint 2010, there are two possible situations : 1.Move a document library between sites in the same SharePoint site collection. 2.Move a document library between sites in different SharePoint site collections or on different servers In both cases, if you want to move a document library, you can save the source SharePoint document library and its contents (documents) out as a List template , create a new document library based on that List template in the destination SharePoint site, and then delete the document library in the source SharePoint site. To save the SharePoint document library and its contents as a list template : 1.Navigate to the source SharePoint 2010 site where the document library is located. 2. Click Library Tools > Library > Settings > Library Settings. 3.On the Document Library Sett...

Themes have been drastically changed in 2010. The new 2010 themes use an entirely different design. SharePoint 2007 themes used CSS and images while the new 2010 themes use the .thmx format . This means themes can be easily created using PowerPoint or any other tools which will be discussed later in this article. You will notice that the old SharePoint 2007 themes are no longer available in SharePoint 2010. There is now an easy way in SharePoint 2010 to change some colors and default fonts without having to change a bunch of CSS styles. Creating SharePoint themes used to require editing CSS style sheets manually or using a tool like SharePoint Designer. Furthermore, packaging and deploying the themes required administrative access to the server. This is no longer the case! Now you can create a SharePoint theme without ever having to see a single CSS style and you can easily deploy it to your server and apply it all within your web browser! Here's how it's done with Microso...

I recently needed to write a SharePoint Designer workflow to send a reminder email 12-hours before the end of a multiple-day event. It’s easy to use the Pause Until Date activity to pause until the necessary time, but it’s not so obvious how to calculate the date and time ithe workflow needs to pause until. The easiest way to calculate the Pause Until date and time was to create it as a calculated column in SharePoint. Note: although the screenshots in this post are from SharePoint 2010, the principles are the same in SharePoint 2007. In the Name and Type section, for the name of the column name I used DateTime for PauseUnt il. I selected the Calculated (calculation based on other columns) data type. In the Additional Column Settings section, I temporarily entered a formula of =[End Time]-1 , selected Date and Time as the data type, and selected Date & Time as the format. You’ll notice in the screenshot here that there are three different End Times and the calculate...

One of the great new features that end-users love in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to validate input. It provides an easy way to make sure that users enter the correct type of data in a metadata field. However, there are a couple questions users often have. The first one is why are there two different places to do it ( Column Validation on the Column Settings page and Validation Settings on the List Settings page )? The second question users often have is how can I reference other columns in my validation rules? In this blog post, we’ll answer these two questions from a common case study. The Problem – How To Disallow a Due Date that is in the Past? One of the common things people want to do is make sure that people do not set due dates for tasks (or other types of lists) in the past . Usually the first thing a you will try is to set the validation to [Due Date] > [Today] . This makes sense because you are already use to using [Today ] to filter views. However, when you try to...

Status Indicator is a report type, where it shows and compares the actual performance of particular measure with goal value. Without doing any calculations, you can know the performance of a measure with good status indicator. You can know whether measure results are on target or off target. This post explains how to create a status indicator in SharePoint 2010. Status Indicator shows name, results and icon. It provides a quick information, green icon indicates good performance , Red icons flags the problem areas and yellow icons warn of potential problems . The typical status indicator looks as follows. Creating status indicator status indicator is an item in status list in SharePoint. You can create a status list in two ways Create a status list Create a web part with status list Creating a Status List Create a Status List in the Business Intelligence Center site in SharePoint. You can add status indicator once you create a list. Steps to create a list 1. click Site Act...

By default SharePoint 2010 does not allow you to browse the Flash (.swf) files . In order to browse the flash files in SharePoint 2010 configure the below steps in SharePoint 2010 Central Admin. Note : By Default flash files render in SharePoint 2007 and these steps require in SharePoint2010 1. Go to SharePoint Central Admin then click on Manage web applications link. 2. Select the web application where you want to show the flash files . 3. Select General Settings on the ribbon and set the Browser File Handling property to Permissive .