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Following a Document
Good Day With the classic SharePoint UI in Team Sites we still had the ability in selecting a document in a Document Library and picking the option to Follow a Document. It looks as you Follow a...
I guess the real question is do they just want notified when documents change? or do they want a place for a summary of changes to documents they care about. Most people just want to be notified and in that case setting up alerts on a document is easy, but make sure if you do go this route to tell them to use the daily summary option :p. If you do changes as they happen, with the way auto save and office online save constantly you will end up with many alerts!
- Thats is a very good point Alert VS Follow. For Documents, users want the Follow capability so they can bookmark those files they want to track. Users access applicable document libraries to pick and choose the files the want to "Follow". This is not the same as what Delve provides which focuses on your own work, or take a look at suggested documents or start clicking on colleagues to see if they have documents you want to follow/save for later/bookmark.
I would assume also that when it comes to Follow, we cannot follow a site or a whole list/library even if we leveraging the classic UI right? Thank you!- Agree, the idea with Delve is the search box for items you aren't or others rent actively working on that don't show up on the immediate popular docs board, you can search for any documents quickly that you have access too and add to your favorites, so I kind of looked at that as a way to follow documents.
Microsoft is working on a solution, we are just kind of in that transition phase where some things are missing that some folks rely on and need!
