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Understanding workspaces - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: Managing Documents with SharePoint 2010
Understanding workspaces
What is a document workspace? In really simple terms, it provides a platform where a group of people can work together on a document. Think of it as a cyber boardroom where a group of colleagues get together to discuss everything and anything related to the creation and completion of a document or a set of documents. Let's take a look by first setting up a document workspace. So how do you go about creating one? We're going to move up here and see those top left corner of the window and click on the Site Actions button. From here, we'll select New Site, and you can see here that it says create a site for a team or project, so we'll click on that, and now what we see is a list of templates that are associated with creating sites in SharePoint. The one that we're looking for in this list is one called Document Workspace. Go ahead and click on it, and over on the right it updates to tell you that we need a title as well as a URL name. So the title I'm going to go with is EC, and I'll say…