The Web Workers’ Community SharePoint Site – User Guide
Author:
Valentina Bettencourt
Created: 2/28/07 Revised: 3/13/07
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Table of Contents Introduction 4 What is a SharePoint (SP) site? 4 System requirements 4 Logging in 5 Overview 6 The Quick Launch bar 6 Documents and Wiki-like functionality 6 Pictures 6 Lists 7 Discussions 7 Surveys 7 The Central content area 7 Announcements 7 Events 7 The Site Administration area 8 Navigating the site 8 Alerts 8 Manage Alerts from a Central Location 8 Manage Alerts Individually 11 To View All Your Current Alerts 13 Contacts 14
Subscribe to a Discussion 23 Document Libraries 24 What They Are 24 Create a New Document Library 24 Adding documents to the document library 26 Uploading a Single File 26 Uploading Multiple Documents 27 Uploading Multiple Documents 28 Working with files in a document library- Wiki-like Functionality 29 Reading a document 29 Checking Out and Checking In a Document 30 Editing a Document 31 Deleting a Document 32 Subscribe 32 Picture Libraries 32 What they are 32 Create a New Picture Library 33 Uploading pictures 35 Uploading a Single Picture 35 Uploading Multiple Pictures 35 Viewing images 36 Picture library views 36 Changing views 37 Picture library display styles 37
What they are 14
Downloading a Picture 39
View 14
Viewing a slide show 41
Update 16
Editing a Picture 41
Subscribe 17
Subscribe 42
Discussions 17
Announcements 42
What They Are 17
What they are 42
Start a New Discussion 17
Create Announcements 43
Reply to an Existing Comment 21
Subscribe 44
Edit Your Own Discussion Comment 22 Delete a Discussion Comment 22
Links 44 What they are 44 Create 45
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Delete, Create, View and Subscribe 46 Events 47
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Introduction Our web workers have been asking for a way to build community and to share information. Now we’ve got it for you!
To do first
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Update contact information: Delete anyone who does not want to be contacted Add your site name Add your ‘specialty’
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Set up alerts
We have created a SharePoint (SP) site for you at: https://sharepoint.medschool.ucsf.edu/SOM/ISU/WebWo rkers/default.aspx Note: The URL begins in https, not http.
We hope that you will make your SP site a lively area of discussion and information sharing. This site is for you, so please use it, expand it and have fun with it!
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Create new discussions and discussion categories Start networking!
What is a SharePoint (SP) site? SharePoint is a Microsoft product. Your SP site is a secure, collaborative, portal-style site which you can use to share documents, participate in discussions and short surveys, create announcements and events, and store and share images. The site comes with subscription capability, to keep you informed of what is happening in your community. If you choose to subscribe, you will be notified each time the site, or specific areas of the site are updated. SP sites require a login and comprise a specific group of users. Your site is restricted to web workers only. Web workers are those staff who have been granted permission to work on various School of Medicine websites. You will log in using your AD login, the one you use to log into your computers each morning. New web workers will automatically become a part of the SP site’s user group. Please contact the Web Services group if you have question about the user group, permissions or if you would like us to add another user. You may share information in a number of ways. You may post documents, which others may then view and edit (very much like a Wiki). You may participate in discussion forums, joining in to ongoing conversations or starting new topics yourself. There are also libraries of images which you can use and add to. We have pre-populated your site with some basic content. Jump in! Subscribe, add content, participate!
System requirements The recommended system configuration for PC is: Windows XP or 2000 Internet Explorer (IE) or Firefox Office 2003
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The recommended system configuration for Mac is: OS X Firefox (Safari is not supported) Office 2004
Logging in Using Internet Explorer or Firefox on a PC or Firefox on a Mac, type or copy and paste this URL into the browser address field: https://sharepoint.medschool.ucsf.edu/SOM/ISU/WebWorkers/default.aspx Note: Be sure to use https not http. Note to VPN users: Please do not use VPN to access this SharePoint site. Rather, copy and paste the preceding URL directly into a browser. We recommend that you bookmark this site. When prompted, login just as you do to log into your computer. Type in your domain, backslash and username. Type in the password you use to log into your computer.
Illus: Logging In
Please note that the first time you login, the dialog box may be pre-populated with some form of URL plus your user login. It is important that you change any such entry to the domain\username format. Domains we use are SOM and Campus.
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Overview Take a look at the home page. It is divided into three sections.
Illus: Bird’s eye view of the WebWorkers’ SP site. 1. “Quick Launch” bar / left side navigation 2. Central content area 3. Site Administration
The Quick Launch bar This contains links to Documents, Pictures, Lists, Discussions and Surveys. (We will discuss each of these items in turn.) You have the choice of adding links to new items in these categories, so this area may continue to grow.
Documents and Wiki-like functionality By default, your site contains a document library (a collection of documents) called Shared Documents. (At launch there were no documents in the Shared Documents library.) You may add as many documents as you like to this library. You may also create other document libraries to categorize the documents you want to share. You are free to edit and collaborate on the documents on your site. In this manner, you are effectively creating a wiki – i.e. a website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively. This will be explained further below.
Pictures In addition to the document libraries, you can create a library to store graphics files. We have pre-populated your Pictures area to contain four libraries: images, logos, banners and icons.
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Please feel free to add more libraries for different kinds of images. The web workers have asked specifically for sources of images and photos, so please add and share images!
Lists By default, lists come in four flavors: Announcements, Contacts, Events and Links. You may display lists in the Quick Launch area and / or in the content area. (We have chosen to situate Announcements, Events and Links in the content area due to their relative importance.) We have pre-populated a Contact List with your names and contact information. This list was created by importing your group contacts from Outlook. Please update your contact information with your website and areas of expertise. Please note that some of the people on this list are titular web workers only and may not wish to be contacted. If you recognize any such person on the Contact List, please delete their contact information!
Discussions By default your site contains a discussion board called General Discussion. We have also created a discussion board called Technical Questions. You may add other discussion board for other issues and topics. In addition to discussion boards which allow you to comment on particular issues or topics, you may also create a discussion about any document posted to your site. Each person can enter their comments on the file without altering the original document. You may subscribe to discussions as well as to all other areas of your site.
Surveys Surveys allow you to ask questions and collect responses.
The Central content area The central content area contains links to Announcements, Events and Links. Again, as items are added to these categories links to them may be displayed here on the homepage. The entries in the central content area may be expanded and contracted by clicking on the small arrows in the their title bars.
Announcements The Announcements area is a place for you to share static information to keep your colleagues up-to-date on news that is important to them.
Events This area displays event and / or meeting details.
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The Site Administration area The Site Administration area is where you may modify any of the items on the page or create new ones. You may also customize the look of the site in this location. You may also subscribe here to receive notices of site updates. These updates are called Alerts.
Navigating the site To return to the homepage from any page on the site, click on the “Home” link in the Site Administration area at the top of the page.
Illus: Site Settings link on home page
Alerts Because your web worker SharePoint site will to help you communicate, we expect it to grow quickly and change often. You may subscribe to receive email alerts regarding any of the items or groups of items above to keep you up-to-date with any changes. When documents, lists, or items in a list are created, modified, or deleted, users who sign up for alerts will receive email messages informing them that changes have been made. You can manage all your alerts individually or centrally from one place.
Manage Alerts from a Central Location To manage all your alerts at once click on “Site Settings” in the Site Administration area.
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Following is the next screen you will see, the Site Settings screen. Click on “My alerts on this site” near the bottom of the page in the section entitled “Manage My Information”.
Illus: Site Settings page
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This is the next page you will see, the My Alerts page. Any alerts which you have already created will be displayed here. To add and alert click on “Add Alert”.
Illus: My Alerts page
On the following screen, select the section of the website you wish to subscribe to and click “Next”.
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The New Alert screen will show up next.
Illus: New Alert screen
It will specify the email address for the alerts. You may update your email address here if you wish. You may choose to have the system send you alerts for all changes, added items, or changed or deleted items within the section you have chosen. In addition, you may select the frequency of the alerts. You will receive them either immediately, or on a daily or weekly basis. Make your selections and click “OK”. You will be returned to the My Alerts screen where you may repeat these steps to add additional alerts. Click on the “Home” button in the Site Administration area to return to the site’s home page.
Manage Alerts Individually You may manage your alerts individually as you are working within a particular area of the site. On the landing page for any particular area, you will see a link entitled “Alert Me” on the left hand side.
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Click on the “Alert Me” link.
Illus: Landing Page with “Alert me” highlighted
You will now see the New Alerts page.
Illus: Setting up Alerts
It will specify the email address for the alerts. You may update your email address here if you wish. You may choose to have the system send you alerts for all changes, added items, or changed or deleted items. In addition, you may select the frequency of the alerts. You will receive them either immediately, or on a daily or weekly basis. Make your selections and click “OK”.
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To View All Your Current Alerts To view your alerts click on “Site Settings” in the Site Administration area.
Illus: Site Settings link
This will take you to the Site Settings page. Click on “My alerts on this site”.
Illus: Site Settings page
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This will take you to the My Alerts page. This page displays all current alerts.
Illus: My Alerts page
Contacts What they are We have created a Contact List of all our web workers. We generated this using the Outlook SOM ISU Web Workers distribution list.
View Click on the “Contacts” link on the homepage to view the Contact List.
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Illus: Home Page with “Contacts” highlighted
This is the Contact List default view.
Illus: Contact List default view
Outlook has pre-populated the Contact List with our web workers’ UCSF contact information. The list also contains fields for you to enter your web site, your web address and any areas of expertise you would like to share with your fellow web workers. You may edit contact information directly in the Contact List default view by doubleclicking on the entry and typing over it. Please note that some of the people on this list are titular web workers only and may not wish to be contacted. If you recognize any such person on the Contact List, please delete their contact information!
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Update You may edit contact information directly in the Contact List default view by doubleclicking on the entry and typing over it. You may also update your listing by clicking on your last name in the Contact List default view. This will route you to your listing page.
Illus: Contacts, individual listing
Edit any of the fields in your entry by clicking on the “Edit Item” listing. To delete the listing click on “Delete Item”. To return to the Contact List, click on “Go Back to List”.
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To add an entry, click on “New Item” in the Contact List default view.
Illus: Create a new contact
This will take you to the New Item screen where you may enter new contact information.
Subscribe You may subscribe to announcements by following the directions in the preceding “Alerts” section.
Discussions What They Are SharePoint’s discussion feature allows you and your colleagues to carry on a dialog on topics of your choosing. It will keep track of the original comment and its responses in a threaded format.
Start a New Discussion From the home page, click on the “Discussions” link in the left nav (Quick Start area).
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Illus: “Discussions” link in left nav (Quick Launch area)
The next page you see will be the “Documents and Lists” page.
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Click on “Create Discussion Board”. You will be taken to the “Create Page” screen.
Illus: Create Page screen
Click on the “Discussion Boards” link to go to the New Discussion Board page.
Illus: New Discussion Board page
Type in a name and description for the and select “Yes” to place a link to it in the left hand nav. Click “Create”. You will be taken to the main page for your new discussion board.
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Illus: The main page for your new discussion board.
Now you are ready to enter the text of your discussion. To do so, click on “New Discussion”. You will then see the following New Discussion: New Item screen. (It will have the name you have chosen for it.)
Illus: New Discussion: New Item screen
Type in the Subject of your discussion in the mandatory Subject file and enter the text in the Text field. Web Workers’ SharePoint SiteUsers Guide
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Click on “Save and Close”. Note that you may also attach a file here.
Reply to an Existing Comment Browse to the discussion from the home page. Hover over the topic of the discussion to reveal a down arrow and several selections.
Illus: Reply to a discussion
In the Subject column, point to the discussion comment to which you want to reply, click the down arrow on the menu that appears, and then click Reply. The next screen you see will allow you to enter your response to the discussion.
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Add your comments in the Subject and Text fields. Click “Save and Close”. You may attach a document to your response from this screen if you wish.
Edit Your Own Discussion Comment Browse to the discussion from the home page. Hover over the topic of the discussion to reveal a down arrow and several selections.
Illus: Edit a discussion topic
In the Subject column, point to the discussion comment which you wish to edit, click the down arrow on the menu that appears, and then click Edit Item. Modify the comment as desired, and then click “Save and Close”.
Delete a Discussion Comment Browse to the discussion from the home page. Hover over the topic of the discussion to reveal a down arrow and several selections.
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Illus: Delete a discussion comment
In the Subject column, point to the discussion comment which you wish to delete and select “Delete Item”. Click “OK” to confirm that you want to delete the comment.
Subscribe to a Discussion Browse to the discussion from the home page. Hover over the topic of the discussion to reveal a down arrow and several selections.
Illus: Create an alert
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In the Subject column, point to the discussion topic to which you wish to subscribe and click “Alert Me”. On the following screen, select the email, change type and alert frequency and click “OK”.
Illus: Alert Options
Document Libraries What They Are Document libraries are collections of files that you can share. For example, you can create a documents and the other web workers use the SharePoint site to find the files, read them, and make comments. Web workers can check out and edit the files as if they resided on a local or network drive. In this manner, you can create a set of mutually shared and edited files, much like a Wiki does. By default, your team Web site comes with a built-in document library named Shared Documents. We have also added two document libraries to your site. The first is called “How To’s” for you to begin building a shared library of technical-type documents. The second is called “Troubleshooting” where you may post questions and find answers to technical issues with the SharePoint site. You are free to create and add new document libraries to this site. Have at it!
Create a New Document Library From the home page, click on “Documents” in the Quick Launch (left nav) area. Click on “Create Document Library”.
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Illus: Create Document Library, step one
In the Create Page screen, click on “Document Library”.
Illus: Create Document Library, step two
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In the Name box, type in the name of the new library.
Illus: New Document Library screen
In the “Description” box type in a brief description of the contents of the library. In the Navigation section, click “Yes” to put a link to this document library on the Quick Launch bar on the home page. Leave “Yes” as the default for Document Versions in anticipation that they will change and be developed over time. Click “Create”.
Adding documents to the document library Uploading a Single File Select the document library to which you would like to add a file by clicking on its name in the left hand side (the Quick Launch area). Click “Upload Document”. You will be taken to the Upload Document screen.
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Illus: Upload Document screen
On the Upload Document page, click “Browse” to browse to a document you have created on your computer. Select the document then click “Open”. You will be returned to the Upload Document Page. Click “Save and Close”.
Uploading Multiple Documents Select the document library to which you would like to add a file by clicking on its name in the left hand side (the Quick Launch area). Click “Upload Document”. You will be taken to the Upload Document screen.
Illus: Upload Document screen
On the Upload Document page, click “Upload Multiple Files”. The next screen will display your computer file structure; by default it will start at My Documents on your C drive.
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Browse to and select the files you wish to upload. Click Save and Close. When prompted to confirm that you want to upload the files, click Yes. The files appear in the document library.
Uploading Multiple Documents From your computer, open a Windows Explorer window and find the folder with the documents that you would like to upload. Back at the SharePoint site, click on the name of the document library to which you would like to add an image. In the picture library, in the Select a View pane, click “Explorer View”.
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Select the desired files from the Windows Explorer window, and then drag them into the picture library in the SharePoint window.
Illus: Upload Multiple Documents from Your Computer
Working with files in a document library- Wiki-like Functionality This is where you can start building your Wiki. By collaborating, editing, and updating files you are essentially building an evolving knowledge base of articles, much like you would with a Wiki. You may read a document; check it out, edit it and check it back in again; and keep track of its version history. You may also subscribe to get alerts when files are updated. In this way you may build a library of shared information and knowledge, keep it up-to-date and share it amongst yourselves.
Reading a document Browse to the document you wish to check out by selecting its parent library in the left hand side (the Quick Launch area). Click on its name to open it for reading. Note: In order to make changes to a file, you must first check it out. See how to do so in the following section.
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Note: Do not do a “Save As” with your file, SharePoint will save it back to the document library with a different name and will cause confusion.
Checking Out and Checking In a Document Always check out a file before opening it and making changes. Once you check the file back in, other web workers can see the changes that you have made. Browse to the document you wish to check out by selecting its parent library in the left hand side (the Quick Launch area). Click on the name of the document.
Illus: Browsing to and Selecting a Document
Following is the next window you will see. Click on “Check Out” to check out the document for editing.
Illus: Check Out a Document
Once you've checked out a file, the Check Out option on the menu changes to Check In.
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Illus: Check In a Document
Use this option to check the file back in after you're done making changes to the file.
Editing a Document Once you have checked out a file, you’re ready to edit it in Microsoft Word. (You may, of course, edit different file types such as .xls in the same manner.) From the same window from which you checked out the document, click again on the name of the Document. A dialog box will open asking you which program to use to open the file. Select the appropriate program.
Illus: Editing Dialog Box Microsoft Office Word 2003 will open, displaying the file ready for editing. Make and save your edits then check the file back in so your colleagues can see your updates.
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Remember to always Check Out and Check In documents to edit them. Do not simply open a file, make changes and use the “Save As” option. Doing so would save another document, with a different name, back into the document library and will cause confusion for the other web workers when they try to find the right file to review or update.
Deleting a Document You may delete a document by browsing to its page and clicking on the “Delete” option.
Illus: Deleting a Document
Subscribe You may subscribe to a document by browsing to its page and clicking on the “Alert Me” option.
Illus: Creating an Alert for a Document
Of course, you may also managing your alerts from a central location as described in the preceding section entitled “Manage Alerts from a Central Location”.
Picture Libraries What they are You have specifically asked for a place to share images. Here it is!
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There are many advantages to using picture libraries. These advantages include
viewing pictures with one of three unique display styles, sharing pictures by using slide shows downloading pictures directly to a computer, and editing pictures with Windows SharePoint Services-compatible image editors, such as Microsoft Office Picture Manager
An image library offers several great features, including preview, three display views, a slide show, a “share”, a “download” and a “send to” feature. We have started you off with four libraries: Default images (empty for now) Logos Banners Icons (empty for now) You may add sub-folders to any library. You may also add additional picture libraries to this collection.
Create a New Picture Library Click on “Pictures” in the Quick Launch (left nav) area. Click on “Create Picture Library”.
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Illus: Create Picture Library
In the Name box, type in the name of the new library.
Illus: New Picture Library screen
In the “Description” box type in a brief description of the contents of the library. In the Navigation section, click “Yes” to put a link to this picture library on the Quick Launch bar on the home page. Leave “Yes” as the default for Picture Versions in anticipation that the images will change and develop over time.
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Uploading pictures There are three methods for uploading pictures to a picture library. Windows SharePoint Services provides two of these methods, uploading single pictures and uploading multiple pictures by using Explorer view.
Uploading a Single Picture Click on the name of the picture library to which you would like to add an image. In the picture library, click “Add Picture”.
Illus: Add Picture option in Picture Library
On the Add Picture page, click Browse to go to the folder where you your image resides. Select the picture and then click Open. Click Save and Close.
Uploading Multiple Pictures From your computer, open a Windows Explorer window and find the folder with the pictures that you would like to upload. Back at the SharePoint site, click on the name of the picture library to which you would like to add an image. In the picture library, in the Select a View pane, click “Explorer View”.
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Illus: Explorer View in the Picture Library
Select the desired files from the Windows Explorer window, and then drag them into the picture library in the SharePoint window.
Viewing images In this section, you'll work with the views and view styles that are unique to picture libraries.
Picture library views You can use picture libraries views to filter and sort pictures. By default, picture libraries provide the following views: Web Workers’ SharePoint SiteUsers Guide
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All Pictures Use this view when you want to see all of the pictures stored in a picture library. The default display style is Thumbnail, which displays a small preview of each picture. You can switch to another display style to see the pictures if needed. For more information, see the "Picture library display styles" section later in this tutorial. Selected Pictures Use this view when you need to filter the picture library to see only the pictures you have selected previously. As with the All Pictures view, the default display style is Thumbnail, but you can easily switch to another display style if needed. Explorer View Use this view when you want to use the Microsoft Windows Explorer file management system to organize your picture library files. From this view, depending on your Microsoft Windows operating system, you can also print pictures, view a slide show, and connect to Web sites that will print your pictures online.
Changing views By default, you see all pictures in the list. To view only the pictures you choose: In the picture library, select the check boxes for the pictures you would like to view. Under “Select a View”, click “Selected Pictures”. To view all pictures again: In the picture library, under “Select a View”, click “All Pictures”.
Picture library display styles Picture libraries offer three convenient display styles for your pictures: Details, Thumbnails, and Filmstrip. Details style This style displays a table with information about each picture. This view is best for scanning and comparing file properties, rather than inspecting pictures visually. The columns displayed by default in this style include file type, name, picture size, and file size.
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Illus: Details View of Picture Library
Thumbnail style This style displays miniatures of the pictures in the selected folders so you can see and work with many pictures at once. This style is best for browsing through a large set of pictures to find the ones you want to work with, or when you do not need to see picture details. This is the default display style.
Illus: Thumbnail View of Picture Library
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Filmstrip style This style displays both a strip of smaller pictures you can scan, and a single larger picture you can see in detail by clicking on its thumbnail. This style is best when you need to manage multiple pictures, but you also need to see a larger version for more information. It may be helpful if the Thumbnail style does not give enough detail to distinguish between similar pictures.
Illus: Filmstrip View of Picture Library
Downloading a Picture You may download a picture from any view. Select the picture by checking the checkbox next to its name. Then click on “Download”.
Illus: Downloading Pictures, step one
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The next screen will show you a thumbnail of the selected image. Select the size you would like your downloaded image to be and click “Download”.
Illus: Downloading Pictures, step two
You will be prompted for the final location of the downloaded image. You may change its name here if you wish. You may also open the image from here in Microsoft Office Picture Manager.
Illus: Downloading Pictures, step three
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Viewing a slide show In the picture library, under “Actions”, click “View slide show”. The slide show opens in a new browser window. . The slide show begins to advance through the images. Click “Play” . To manually advance through the images, click “Next” To go back to the previous picture, click “Back”
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To pause the slide show at the current image, click “Pause” To stop the slide show, click “Stop”
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Editing a Picture You may edit a picture in two ways. You may download it to your computer as described above and edit it with your favorite image editing software. You may also do so directly within the SharePoint site, using Microsoft Picture Editor. Select the image by clicking on the checkbox next to its name. Click on “Edit Pictures”.
Illus: Editing Pictures
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The image will then open in Microsoft Picture Editor where you may edit it using the tools available in that program.
Illus: Editing Pictures, step two When you are done with your edits, click “Save and Close”. The edits will be automatically saved to the image in SharePoint.
Subscribe You may subscribe to the picture libraries by following the directions in the preceding “Alerts” section.
Announcements What they are Announcements help you share static information to keep your colleagues up-to-date on news that is important to them. Web Workers’ SharePoint SiteUsers Guide
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Create Announcements Click on either the “Announcements” or the “Add new announcements” links on the homepage.
Illus: Announcements displayed on the home page
From the “Announcements” link, you will be presented with the following Announcements screen.
Illus: Creating a new announcement
Select the “New Item” link. You will next see the New Item screen.
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Illus: The New Item screen
In the required Title text box, enter a title for your announcement. If desired, in the Body text box, enter the content of your announcement. If you wish, enter an expiration date by using the calendar icon or by typing in the date in the Expires text box. You may add an attachment to your announcement as well. Click “Save and Close” to save your changes.
Subscribe You may subscribe to announcements by following the directions in the preceding “Alerts” section.
Links What they are The “Links” section is an area where you may post links of interest to your fellow web workers. They point to outside web sites or pages. By default, they are located on the home page on the right hand side.
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Illus: Links on the Home Page
Create To add a link to this section, click on “Add a new link”. The next screen is the New Item page.
Illus: Creating a new link
Enter the full URL into the URL field. Note that this must be a valid and complete URL. Type in an optional description and notes. Click on Save and Close. The new link will now show up in the Links section on the home page. Note that you may also create, delete and edit links as described in the following section.
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Delete, Create, View and Subscribe You may create, delete and edit links from one central location. To do so, click on the “Documents and Lists” link in the Site Administration area.
Illus: “Documents and Lists” in the Site Administration area
Click on the “Links” link in the Lists area of the Documents and Lists page.
Illus: Links on the Documents and Lists page
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The next screen you will see will be the Links page.
Illus: Altering a link
Click on the small arrowhead next to the entry you would like to alter. Select the action you wish to take. Click on the “Home” button in the Site Administration area to return to the home page.
Events What they are This area displays event and / or meeting details. If the web workers would like to organize events, we will amplify this section of the documentation as necessary.
Where to Get Help Since this SharePoint site is by its nature a collaborative, community site, we encourage you start right there when looking for help. Start a discussion, check the contact list for someone who may have the answers you need, network and explore. Good luck and have fun! For technical issues, please contact: Valentina Bettencourt
[email protected] 415-514-2914 or
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Beth Berrean
[email protected] 415-502-1790
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