Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

Areas
Chapter 20: Working with Information Components in SharePoint Products and Technologies 573
To enable content approval on a Portal Listings list, navigate to the area or
Topic, click Change Settings, and on the Publishing tab, select the Yes option button
for Require Approval To Publish New Listings.
Warning Although all areas contain a Portal Listings list, not all areas contain
a Web Part that displays the link items contained in the Portal Listings
list. Areas based on the Topic Area, News Area, News Home Area, and Community
Area templates will display listings by default. When you create an
area based on the Contents Area template, the listings are not automatically
shown. To do so, you will need to enable the Show Listings property of
the Browse Topics By Web Part. See Chapter 31 for information on how to
customize Web Parts. For areas based on the Site Directory Area template a
Grouped Listings Web Part can be added to display the listings. See Part
VIII for more information on customizing Web Part Pages and Web Parts.
The default areas (Topics and Sites) that are created from the Content Area
and Site Directory Area template when a portal site is created will also not
show listings by default. The browser logic allows you to choose any area as
a location for a listing. Because there is always a Portal Listing list, it will
always succeed, but as stated earlier it might not be visible through a Web
Part when users visit that area. You can either use the Grouped Listings
Web Part to display listings or tell users where they can add listings. Also,
as an administrator of a portal area, you should check the Portal Listings
that don’t have an associated Web Part to be sure that users have not created
listings in those lists, and perhaps relocate them in other, more suitable
areas.
To make it easy for users to navigate, browse, and find what they need, you can
divide portal site content into areas. Areas let you organize content—from documents
to people to sites—into sets of related information, even though the content
can be stored in different sources and formats. To control all the content in an area,
the portal site administrator can assign a subject matter expert for the area. The manager
can then control what content appears in the area and who has access to it.
Areas provide three types of functionality in a portal site:
■ They provide a navigational structure or map of the portal and related content.
By adding, moving, or deleting areas, you can change the view of the portal for
users.