Bit of a problem with this one. J and H both asked me to create it last week. I told them that VP had put a stop to new sites until the Portal had been presented to management. Today both J and H came by -within about 5 minutes of each other- to say that…

Bit of a problem with this one. J and H both asked me to create it last week. I told them that VP had put a stop to new sites until the Portal had been presented to management. Today both J and H came by -within about 5 minutes of each other- to say that VP had given his blessing. I created the site, and made some customizations to it – more on those later. A few minutes later, VP spots the new site and sends an email out asking who created it when he told us not to create any new sites. Sighs.

I’ve let him know that both J and H claimed to have permission, so I’m off the hook.

For the site customizations, J wanted a few changes made. First he had me add a calendar. No problems. Then he gave me a Word document and asked me to make it the template used when creating new docs. This was a bit trickier. I opened the document in Word, and saved it as a Word Template (.dotx). I then clicked around the List settings and found I needed to save the template in a hidden folder called Forms in the list. Once there, and advanced setting made it the default template when creating new documents. Next, I created a fairly simple approval workflow for the list. Last, I set default access to Reader for the site, then change the List to have Author access as default.

It all seems to be running the way he wants now.