This chapter's focus has been on List Management and how to apply business activity to this functionality. In Chapter 1, Where Should End Users Start with SharePoint?, we stated SharePoint was a web-based platform where applications and business functionalities are deployed. One of the productivity and total costs of ownership benefits of SharePoint, is to migrate business functionality to the SharePoint platform. Not just from Excel, but general e-mail dialogue form Support, and Sales. This migration of business functionality should also include business processes from bit boutique (single purpose) applications to the SharePoint platform.

We recommend that you now explore the concept of webinizing information from both Word and Excel documents into lists, and identify the lists column structure, the required views to display information, and if necessary, any alert or workflow trigger events.

The next chapter explains libraries, which is where documents are stored. Document management is the other critical and vital functionality of SharePoint.