Question

I have a Publishing Portal site and I need to add some announcements to some of the pages. I’ve read an article which says that i have to create an announcement list to be able add an announcement web part but i can’t seem to find any resources on how i can add an announcement list.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

TIA!

Answer 1

From the home page of your site (or from any page really) you should see a ‘View All Site Content’ link on the top of the navigation menu.

View All Site Content http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/86fed07f0809beefaeeaee0013ee2b952079bc09

Click on that link and it will show you a dashboard listing all of the SharePoint lists that have been provisioned for the current site. Click on the Create button to create a new SharePoint list.

Create new SharePoint List http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/6c0b244801826f8b3ee01811211b88668ba8f713

From there you will see the option to create an Announcments list (under the Communications header). Complete the wizard to complete the list.

Once the list is created you can select Edit Page from the Site Actions menu on any SharePoint page in the site and then select a ‘Add a Web Part’ on the web part zone you want to put your Announcements web part into. You should now see a web part listed with the same name as your Announcements list that you just created.

Select that web part to add it to the page and display.

Hope that helps. If this isn’t the answer to your problem leave a comment or update your question with clarification and I will try to help.