Use of some advanced features of SharePoint

Commercial organisations that operate and manage several sites can testify to the benefits that they enjoy for the use of Microsoft SharePoint. There are various ways in which this web platform can help to streamline the system of organization data. There's also the benefit of this collaborative platform to work seamlessly with other Microsoft such as MS Office and Windows products. Getting support is also not a problem, as support personnel in standby 24/7 to provide assistance whenever necessary.

If your organization uses this platform for some time, you may not not be maximize it to its full potential. There may be some advanced features that you may be to miss that can help you get the most out of your SharePoint site. Here are some:

Setting up alerts - you may not be aware, but this platform can actually be configured to send an email to your organization or an SMS there should be things have changed on either a specific term in a library or if anything in the exchange library. If you get these alerts, this means that you no longer in the back and manually check whether the changes have on one of your sites. You can configure this alert by using the button "Notify me" in the Ribbon on a given content area.

Customizing views - if you want to follow a little more information about the items in a library of more than what SharePoint is delivered preconfigured with, this can actually be made possible. For example, if you want to add a drop-down menu that contains choices about the State of an item that your users can select, you can certainly add that. And which is only scratching the surface of its capabilities. There are many other things that you can customize if find you just the time to explore.

Beyond file via Internet Explorer (IE) maintenance - if you want to make maintenance more simple files, you can actually do other such tasks that download a large set of files to SharePoint without having to mount them all in the window of drag-and-drop. You can simply open a document library in your browser and use IE for it.

Create a master calendar - you can overlay multiple calendars in this platform to create a master calendar that includes information of update rollup of calendars that are nestled deep in the SharePoint site. You can overlay up to 10 calendars together to create this base calendar. If you do not know to do, you can consult your support for assistance.

Here are some very useful features that you can use so you can maximize your use of SharePoint. Do serve and be more efficient with your collaboration system.

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