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You're reading from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook Over 70 advanced recipes for expert End Users to unlock and apply the value of SharePoint

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849682886

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

SharePoint Framework

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Adrian Colquhoun

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started—SharePoint Essentials FREE CHAPTER

2. Working Together—Using SharePoint to Collaborate

3. SharePoint as the Data Hub—Storing and Integrating Data

4. SharePoint Document Management Deep Dive

5. Getting the Message Out—Using SharePoint to Communicate

6. Where's My Stuff?—Finding Things with SharePoint

7. Gaining Insights— Using SharePoint for Business Intelligence

8. Automating Business Processes—Recipes for Electronic Forms and Workflows

Joining the Dots—Creating Composite Applications

Index

Using the datasheet to bulk-edit tasks in a task list

The datasheet view allows you to quickly make changes to many tasks in one go.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

SharePoint 2010 Foundation
SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition
Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

To access the datasheet view, you must have a version of Office 2010 installed.

You will need the Contribute permission level to edit tasks in the datasheet. This normally means that you will be a member of the site member's group.

You will need a SharePoint 2010 Team Site or any other SharePoint site to which a tasks list has been added.

How to do it...

Open your Team Site. Select the Tasks link from the quick-launch menu.
A list of the current tasks for the Team Site is displayed. Select the List tab from the List Tools ribbon.
Click on the Datasheet View icon in the ribbon to open the datasheet view of the Tasks List. You can now perform bulk update operations to quickly update multiple items.
The remaining...