SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition

Workshop 2.1 Debriefing

In Part 1 of the workshop, you selected a blank template in order to build the PMIS from the ground up. This will allow you to later define each component and feature of the site, as well as its access restrictions and other custom functionalities, helping you to fully experience and work with various aspects of SharePoint 2010. Instead of allowing existing users from the parent site to access the site, you selected the “Use unique permissions” option under user inheritance. As a result, you are responsible for defining who can access your PMIS.

In Part 2, you updated the basic look of the site with a predefined theme. To add a custom theme (to conform to your organization’s branding scheme, for example), you must have the IT/IS department create the theme and make it available as a selection.

In Part 3, you added the built-in Announcements list and called it Project Announcements. You will use this list later to store and display project announcements. In the section Creating SharePoint Lists in Chapter 3, you will learn how to create additional lists for your PMIS.

Finally, in Part 4, you used Edit mode to add the Project Announcements list web part to your home page so that visitors to your PMIS can see the latest project announcements. You will learn more about web parts in the section Using Web Parts for Interactive Reporting in Chapter 7.