Just because your husband is in IT doesn't mean that you know as much as I do!

The BBQ Pit
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Damnit, shut up and let me do my job. I know you’re under time pressure, but that doesn’t mean that you know more than I do. It doesn’t mean that you can know that I’m configuring SharePoint wrong. You don’t know in what way it’s wrong. You’re just insisting that I’ve done something wrong and need to fix it in some vague way. (“Recreate it and push some buttons or whatever you do.”)

The problem lies with poor user training, coupled with the horrible non-intuitive way that SharePoint works. The users don’t understand checking in and checking out. You do sort of realize that that’s part of the problem, so you then insist that I set up a web training session for fifteen minutes from now. Of course everyone declines because they’re as busy as you are and can’t suddenly attend a training session with 15 minutes notice.

And stop insisting that I turn off versioning. THAT IS NOT WHAT’S CAUSING THE FREAKING PROBLEM - IT’S USER TRAINING. Believe me, you don’t want me to turn off versioning because if I do, the next thing you know, one of those untrained users will trash a file and leave you with hours of work and then you’ll blame me again.

And by the way, you’re not my boss. You’re not even above me in seniority.

God save me from clever people who think they know about things that they don’t know about! They know just enough that they become insistent that they know what the problem is.

Thank GOD it’s Friday!

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Ahhh, Sharepoint.

You know, I liked that program, but I think that’s because everybody I worked with that used it understood the concept of “You check out the files like you’re checking out a book. You know, like at the library.”

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Everyone was saving their own copy with their name or region or something appended to the end of the filename. This wasn’t good because it was an Excel file that needed to contain cumulative updates from all the different regions. Some people were doing it right, some were just changing the name to force a save because someone else had it checked out.

So she insisted that all of those “versions” that were appearing on the website were there because I had turned on versioning!

She’s a very nice lady, and very intelligent. She’s just under a lot of time pressure at the moment. But she has to let people who know what they’re doing do their job.

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Explore Sharepoint Lists to get everyone to put in data in a single place.

I started using this feature about 5 years ago and am an absolute convert.

BTW - make sure you keep versioning turned on :slight_smile:

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It’s on. I insisted on that.

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“Book? Library?” :confused:

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These were educated people back in the olden days of 2006.