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BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE SHAREPOINT Clarity. Direction. Confidence. BEST PRACTICES FOR ORGANIZING DOCUMENTS IN SHAREPOINT 2010 Ágnes Molnár SharePoint Server MVP, Senior Solutions Consultant

Organizing Documents in SharePoint 2010

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Page 1: Organizing Documents in SharePoint 2010

BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE SHAREPOINT

Clarity. Direction. Confidence.

BEST PRACTICES FOR ORGANIZING DOCUMENTS

IN SHAREPOINT 2010

Ágnes MolnárSharePoint Server MVP,

Senior Solutions Consultant

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BEST PRACTICES CONFERENCE SHAREPOINT

About the Speaker...

Ágnes MolnárSharePoint Server MVP

Senior Solutions Consultant, BA Insight

Budapest, Hungary

http://aghy.hu

E-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: @molnaragnes

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Sessions

Title Day / Time / Venue

Enterprise Document Management in SharePoint 2010as You’ve Never Seen

Monday 10:15 AMPAV3

Best Practices for Implementing Enterprise Search in SharePoint

Monday 2:30 PMGBE

Best Practices for Organizing Documents in SharePoint 2010

Tuesday 12:45 PMGBE

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Agenda

Introduction:SharePoint 2010 Capabilities for supporting Document Management

Best Practices:Folders vs. Document Sets

Metadata management

Content Types

Content Organizer Rules

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Document Management General Requirements

Store, edit, organize, etc.

Properties and metadata

Version management

Permission management

Workflows

Content Types

Document Templates

Extensibility

Search – and Find...

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SharePoint 2010 Capabilities

Document Libraries & Folders

Content Types

Document Sets

Metadata Management

Document ID

Workflows

Content Organizer Rules

Office 2010 Integration

Office Web Apps

SharePoint Workspace 2010

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Agenda

Introduction:SharePoint 2010 Capabilities for supporting Document Management

Best Practices:Folders vs. Document Sets

Metadata management

Content Types

Content Organizer Rules

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Folders vs. Document Sets

Document Sets:

Components, similar to folders, that enable users to collaborate on

related documents without having to create a new document library

or site.

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Folders vs. Document Sets

Document Library

Document_1

Document_2

Folder_1

Document_F1_1

Document_F1_2

Folder_F1_1 Folder_F1_1_1 Document_F1_1_1_1

DocumentSet_F1_1 Document_DS_F1_1_1

Folder_2

Folder_3

DocumentSet_1

Document_DS1_1

Document_DS1_2

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Folders vs. Document Sets

Prefer Folders:If you need a hierarchy inside

If you don’t need the extra capabilities of Document Sets

Prefer Document Sets:If you don’t need hierarchy inside

If you do need the extra capabilities

For example:Contracts

Project documents

Usability studies

Knowledge Management repositories

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Agenda

Introduction:SharePoint 2010 Capabilities for supporting Document Management

Best Practices:Folders vs. Document Sets

Metadata management

Content Types

Content Organizer Rules

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Metadata Management

Managed Metadata:A hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define and then use as attributes for items.

Benefits:

Consistent use of terminology

Better search results

Dynamic

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Metadata ManagementList Columns Managed Metadata

Local term sets Global term sets

Managed in the context Managed out of context

Static Dynamic

Managed by admins Managed by owners

Can be imported from CSV

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Metadata Management

Best Practices for Metadata ManagementHas to be defined by the business!

But usually they cannot Help but don’t drive!

Users are not taxonomy experts - Teach them!Managing metadata

Using metadata

Think in managed metadata

Build hierarchy – instead of flat term stores

Be careful of legal requirements

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Agenda

Introduction:SharePoint 2010 Capabilities for supporting Document Management

Best Practices:Folders vs. Document Sets

Metadata management

Content Types

Content Organizer Rules

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Content Types

Create Content Types at the top level of Site Collection – except if you have other business requirements

Can be used on all sites

Can be the parent of other content types

Can be managed together

Use your own Content Type groups instead of the default „Custom Content Types”

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Content TypesCreate your own „root” content types

Document

Document_Root

Contract Technical Document

Requirements

System Requirements

Functional Requirements

Case Study User Manual

Marketing

Presentation

For Business Decision Makers

For Developers

For Admins

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Content Types

Organize the Templates into Template Libraries

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Content Types

Organize the Templates into Template Libraries

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Agenda

Introduction:SharePoint 2010 Capabilities for supporting Document Management

Best Practices:Folders vs. Document Sets

Metadata management

Content Types

Content Organizer Rules

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Content Organizer Rules

Property based rules

Users don’t need to know where to save anymore

Well organized content

Searchability and Findability

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Content Organizer Rules

Use if you have clear organizing requirements

Deploy a good Search Architecture Search Based Navigation

Don’t forget to turn on the Content Organizer Feature – on the Target Site too!

Don’t forget to implement Content Types in the Target Libraries

Teach the users!

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Clarity. Direction. Confidence.

THANK YOU!E-mail: [email protected]

Twitter: @molnaragnes

Blog: http://aghy.hu