Jumpstart
Your SharePoint team Web site has predefined pages that you can fill out with information
for your team.
To add your own information:
- On the home
page, under Quick Launch, click a link to go to one of
the predefined pages. Or, click the name of one of the lists displayed on
the home page: Announcements, Events, Links.
- Click New Item, fill out the form,
and then click Save and Close.
Note Instead of New Item, on the General
Discussion page, click New Discussion. On the Shared Documents
page, click New Document or Upload Document.
- Click New Item again to continue adding new items.
The preceding steps apply to any of the following predefined pages:
Post information about upcoming meetings, conferences, or
other events for your team. A view of the Events list is displayed on the home page of your
team Web site.
Display a list of hyperlinks
to Web pages of interest to team members. A view
of the Links
list is displayed on the home page of your team Web site.
Store your own files on your team Web site.
-
If the file already exists, click Upload Document, click Browse
to locate the file on your hard disk or network, and then complete the form.
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If you want to create a new file, click New Document, and then create
the file using a SharePoint Team Services-compatible client program, such as Microsoft
Word 2002. Save it as a Web page in Shared
Documents.
Note To create a document by using the New Document
command, you must have a SharePoint Team Services-compatible client program, such as Microsoft Office XP,
and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later installed.
A hyperlink
to Shared Documents is displayed on the Quick Launch bar.
Post topics that team members can reply to. The
resulting threaded discussions provide an archive of your team's decision-making processes throughout the life of a project.
A hyperlink
to
General Discussion is displayed on the Quick Launch bar.
Share telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other contact
information for
people who work with your team,
such as vendors, clients, and consultants. A hyperlink
to the
Contacts list is displayed on the Quick Launch bar.
Organize your team's to-do items by assigning them to team members,
prioritizing items, and keeping track of progress. A hyperlink
to the Tasks list is displayed on the Quick Launch bar.
Going further
Once your team is familiar with the team Web site, you may want to customize the
site by
doing one or more of the following:
As team members add information to the team Web site, you can view the
information in several ways. On any of the predefined pages where the list of
information appears you can do the following:
- Click the title of a column to sort information by that column.
- Click Filter to see information based on a set of criteria.
- Click Export to view the list in spreadsheet, where
you can use the spreadsheet program's features for analyzing and displaying the information.
Note To export a list from your
team Web site, you
must have a SharePoint Team Services-compatible spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel 2002, installed.
- Click a link under Select a View to see information in a view
that
has been defined for that list.
- Click Subscribe to receive an e-mail notification when content on
the team Web site changes.
If the list in a predefined page doesn't exactly meet your needs, you can
modify it by changing its name or description, or by adding or removing a column.
- On any of the predefined pages where the list of information appears, click
Modify settings and columns.
- Do any of the following:
- To change the name or description, under General Settings,
click Change general settings, and modify the Name or
Description fields.
- To delete a column, under Columns, click the name
of the column, and then click Delete.
- To add a column, under Columns, click Add a
new column, and then fill out the form.
You can create your own pages based on the predefined pages, or create a
custom-designed page.
- On the top
link bar, click Create.
- Do one of the following:
- To create a page based on the predefined pages, click one of the following: Document
Library (creates a page like Shared Documents), Links,
Announcements, Team Contacts, Events, Tasks, Discussion
Board (creates a page like General Discussion).
- To create a survey, click Survey. You formulate
questions that team members respond to when they visit the team Web site.
- To create a custom list from scratch, click Custom List. You
specify the columns for information you want to store.
- To create a custom list by using an existing spreadsheet, click Import Spreadsheet.
Note To create a list based on
a
spreadsheet, you must have a SharePoint Team Services-compatible spreadsheet program, such
as Microsoft Excel 2002, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later installed.
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