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As with most things SharePoint related, I don't desire to have unyielding power and control over everything I develop. Instead, I just want to squeeze a little more functionality out of the pre-canned features. Links list are one of the most simple of the standard SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 out-of-the-box lists. You get a URL field, which has the URL and a display name, and 우리카지노주소 then some other fields that never get used, like the notes co

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With the addition of just one simple number column, you can exponentially increase the usability of a links list to create a custom sort order, and 더킹카지노 even fake a category if you so deem fit. (I'll discuss adding a real Category meta-data co



A typical list of links sorted in alphabetical order | Source SharePoint 2016 For Dummies (Learning Made Easy) Buy Now Add a number column to the Links list to allow for custom sorting | Source So, the big trick is to add a simple number column to the Links list, such that you can sort by it later in a view. To acco




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To finalize the look of the top picture, you can add dividing lines by adding new links then putting in a dummy URL, and then some dashes for the display. I went a little further by faking category names. This is the extreme quick & dirty method, but if you really care about categories, you can add a category metadata column, and group by it. (I wrote about that, too. Please see 'SharePoint Links List: Add a category and cus

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