Happy August!
I know several parents of school-aged kids are happy because the kiddos are heading back to school soon. Perhaps that’s part of why August is Happiness Happens Month. Did you know that was a thing? I didn’t until I started looking at the variety of National days and observances in August, for a little marketing inspiration. This caught my eye and I immediately started writing.
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I began thinking about simplicity this morning when I saw that July 12th is National Simplicity Day, in honor of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was an author, naturalist, philosopher, and historian. One of his works Walden, is a reflection on living simply in natural surroundings.
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OK, guys and gals, I’m sure you disagree with the title and that’s alright because it is a problem. A rather big one. But, I have a workaround to offer you until Microsoft catches up with the demand for functionality in our list view webparts.
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Ah, folders… What can I say about them that I haven’t said, at least 100 times?
They’re tedious. They bury data in potentially deep structures that can make it frustrating and difficult to ever find again, therefore increasing the likelihood of duplication. They hide important information like “Checked Out.”
In short (and sometimes long) I don’t like them.
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Content Types may be one of the more underutilized and misunderstood (“un-understood” may be a better word) things in SharePoint. At least in the out of the box realm of SharePoint document management.
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