Folders: can we ban them from SharePoint deployments?
By Susan Hanley on Thu, 10/25/07 - 9:26pm.
Well, we probably shouldn’t totally ban folders, but we definitely want to make it harder to use them! I had two completely separate conversations this week on the topic of how to help SharePoint users understand the paradigm shift from folders to metadata. It’s definitely a change in the way you think about organizing your critical documents. I developed a brief tutorial called “Breaking the Folder Paradigm – how to get more value from your SharePoint document libraries.” Check it out at http://www.susanhanley.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/breakingthefolderparadigm.pdf and let me know what you think.
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Hanley is an independent consultant and president of her own firm, Susan Hanley LLC, where she specializes in the design and development of portal solutions and knowledge management consulting.
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Corrected Link to Sue's Tutorial
The link in Sue's post above wasn't working (looks like this blog software only allows a certain number of characters across), so I checked her site and the link is indeed quite a bit longer.
I've put a space in between "sitebuildercontent/" and "sitebuilderfiles" so that it will display. You'll have to fix it when you copy and paste into your browser:
http://www.susanhanley.com/sitebuildercontent/
sitebuilderfiles/breakingthefolderparadigm.pdf