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SharePoint 2010 at Work
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SharePoint 2010 at Work

by Mark Miller
February 2012
Beginner
264 pages
6h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 9. Creating Document Libraries with Mixed Content Sources

Eric Alexander

This chapter shows how both documents and list items can be contained in the same document library for a consistent user interface. Often, sites are constructed so that documents are separated from useful internal or external links that may be relevant to that content, but this doesn’t have to be the case. Documents and list items can both live in the same spot and blend seamlessly together. In this chapter, we’ll examine the steps to achieve this result in both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and SharePoint Foundations/SharePoint Server 2010.

Background

On NothingButSharePoint.com, formerly EndUserSharePoint.com, we would get great questions on the Stump the Panel forum. These questions were from users who ranged from absolute SharePoint beginners to seasoned SharePoint administrators, End Users, and Developers. This forum, which is now located at https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Forum/Pages/default.aspx, is a hotbed for great blog-worthy material. This is one of those great submissions from the forums.

I am new to SharePoint and am trying to set up a research library for our branch. I have created 8 bookshelves for my library using the Document Libraries. I would like to combine different document types (.pdf .doc and .xls) for a particular subject area (e.g. homelessness) and links to websites with relevant subject area information on ...

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