Description about Out of Box Libraries
What is a document library?
A document library is where you upload your core documents. They consist of a row and column view with links to the documents. When the document is updated so is the link on your site. You can also track metadata on your documents. Metadata would consist of document properties.
What are picture libraries?
Picture libraries allow you to access a photo album and view it as a slide show or thumbnails or a film strip. You can have separate folder for each event, category, etc.
What is a Slide library?
The SharePoint Slide Library is a feature that comess with MOSS only. It provides rich integration with the PowerPoint 2007 client to track slides used from the library in a presentation to ensure that updates to the master slide are notified to users of the slides
How to create Slide library?
. To create a Slide Library, you need to have at least Designer permissions.
1. On the Site Actions menu, click View all site content
- Clcik Create button
- Under Libraries, click Slide Library.
Note: Slide Libraries can be created in only certain types of sites, such as a Team site and Document Workspace. If
you do not see Slide Library under Libraries, the type of site you are working on does not support Slide Libraries.
4. On the New page, under Name, type a name for the library. The name appears in any navigation links that you set up.
5. Under Description, type an optional description.
6. Click Create.
