Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

648 Part VII: Information Management in SharePoint Products and Technologies
To change the view of your personal site
You can switch between the private and public view of your personal site.
■ To switch to the private view from the public view, click Private in the Select
View section of the action pane.
■ To switch to the public view from the private view, click Public in the Select
View section of the action pane.
Personal Site Navigation
Private View
As with most other SharePoint sites, your personal site has a top link bar with the
following links:
■ Home. This link returns you to the home page of a personal site. If that page
is your personal site, you see the private view. If it is another person’s personal
site, you see the public view.
■ Documents and Lists. This link shows all the lists for your personal site and
the number of documents in each list. You can also create lists of various types
from this page.
■ Site Settings. This link provides administration, customization, and information
management pages for your personal site.
■ Help. This link shows help for the current page.
■ Up To. This link will get you back to the home page of the portal site.
The private view of your personal site provides a personalized view of the portal site
and the documents, sites, and people found in the portal site. This view contains
content targeted to you based on your membership in a particular audience. For
example, if you are a new employee, you might find links to key training resources.
The private view of the home page for your personal site includes several Web
Parts for organizing information specific to you. The private view Web Part layout
can be customized by changing to Shared View. In Shared View, any changes
made to Web Part properties or layout will be reflected to all users’ personal sites. By
default, these Web Parts include the following:
■ My Calendar. Meetings and appointments scheduled in Microsoft Exchange
Server 2003. You must provide the address of a Microsoft Outlook Web Access
server to use My Calendar.
■ My Links Summary. A summary of links that you have created on your personal
site for regular use. To add a link, click Add new link. Links in this list
that you share also appear on the public view of your personal site.