SharePoint Musings

Connecting the Disconnected Sneak Peek Event: Welcome to the New World of Business Collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Guest Speaker: Joel Oleson, Industry Renowned SharePoint Evangelist. When: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Where: The Venue of Scottsdale 7117 E. 3rd Avenue Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Time: 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM SPACE IS LIMITED Join industry renowned SharePoint Evangelist and frequent industry speaker, Joel Oleson, of Quest Software, for a candid and engaging thought leadership presentation on SharePoint 2010 the future of business collaboration. Get the SharePoint 2010® product rundown from Microsoft, and how the platform can help your business: • Collaborate and innovate. Organizational knowledge gets where it needs to go. With advanced social computing tools, you can build more flexibility into your business. Ideas cross-pollinate, sparking innovation, empowerment, and new perspectives. • Intimate Integration with Office 2010 - The Office Ribbon user interface (UI) now

I know most of us have encountered this at one time or another while working in a SharePoint environment. It mostly happens when creating Lists and/or Libraries in SharePoint. The dreaded %20 which most Content Management systems use to fill a space between words in the title of a particular object. Luckily there is a quick fix. Next time you are creating a list or a library that contains spaces in the title simply type the name as you would like it to appear in the actual URL, without spaces. Next specify the rest of the options as you usually would (i.e. display in Quick Launch, and Library type) and click Create. Now that you have created your list/library the URL appears clean (without %20) as expected. But what about the Title place holder? I only wanted my URL to appear without spaces, not my list/library Title. Simply navigate to list/library Settings, and under General Settings click on "Title, description and navigation". Change your Title to include spaces.