The Baretta

What is this?   A tutorial on how to set up a cool list on SharePoint where staff can manage their favourite links, ideally on the homepage of your intranet. This keeps all their commonly accessed web-stuff 1 click away, and it means you do not have to fill up your SharePoint navigation with 100's of useless links that only 5-10 people use. Woah that sounds sweet, how is that even possible!?   Well I'm going to show you how, in this tutorial we are using SharePoint Online, because then this post will be relevant for more than a year. Step 1:  Create a Custom List called 'Personal Shortcuts' by clicking Settings > Add an app , and selecting 'Custom List'. Step 2: Create a new column in your new list by clicking the List Tab > Create Column .  Call the new column ' Shortcut ', Set the Type as ' Hyperlink or Picture ' & make sure the column requires a value . Step 3: Now we need to remove the Title column from this list...

I'll make this real easy.   IF EVERY SINGLE USER NEEDS IT , then it can go on global navigation. Otherwise, you're wasting precious navigation space for links nobody wants. Still really need a selection of staff to have one-click access to something?  That's fine, you should look at implementing a personalised list of shortcuts on the homepage that each user can manage themselves.  That way that specialised safety system they access everyday takes up their screen space and no one else's. That brings me to : How To Set Up a Personalised Shortcuts List on a SharePoint Site This is almost a golden rule for me, what're your thoughts?