I am relatively new to sharepoint so not sure if I am doing things the right way. I am working as a business analyst and have been asked to help with developing the site for the business analyst team. So what I have so far is I have created 2 pages under the main Business Analyst page called systems and templates. The systems page is supposed to have links to all the different systems used by BA's and documentation related to these systems. The templates page is supposed to have links to the various document templates like use cases and functional spec documents used by BA's. So I created a folder under the document library for templates and uploaded some of the templates in there. But now when I go to the systems page, add a web part and try to upload system documents, it is automatically adding the templates folder to the systems page. I dont want the template documents or the folder to be seen on the systems page. Is there a way to do this or am I approaching this the wrong way? Any help is appreciated.

RudyPiper, I can help you, but you have to tell me what version of SharePoint are you using? I think you don't even need to create pages as this is not traditional web site. All you have to do is create a document library by going to Site Actions->View All Site Content-> Create - Library and then picking document library. Once you have done this, you can start uploading documents and even add folders to this library. If you want to expose this library on another WebPage then I can explain you how to do that, but for what you are doing you don't have to do more.Kartik Anand, MCPD, MCITP Blog: http://sharepointclaimsguru.blogspot.com/ Twitter: sp_claimsguru

Thanks for the reply Kartik. I think I am using Sharepoint Server 2007. I tried to do what you said and went under site actions to create a library but I dont have that option. The only options I have are to edit page, create page, view site content and manage site content structure. There is a main admin person who created the sharepoint site and the different departments under it. So under the BA site I created the 2 pages called templates and systems. If I do manage site content and structure for the BA page, it has 4 folders for documents, Images, Pages and Workflow Tasks. I can see the pages I created under the pages folder. Also the documents I uploaded are in the documents folder. The issue like I said before is when I start working on the individual pages under the main BA page and try to add a web part and add documents it adds the document library to both pages but I dont want the system documents showing in the templates page or vice -versa. Also the manager would like to see the pages broken out under the main BA page rather than upload all the documents on the main BA page. I dont think I have rights to create libraries for each individual page(systems, templates) under the BA pages - not sure if that is the direction I should be going. Again ur advice or help is appreciated as I am still learning. Thanks.

Hi , Please provide more detailed information: 1. What kind is your BA site ? Is it a team site or some site else ? 2. What do you mean by ‘create a new web part on the system page and upload the system documents ’?What kind of web part is it? How do you upload the document to the web part ? 3. If you just want to show the link to the template documents on the system page ,you can add a ‘Summary Link Web Part ’ on the system page ,and add the links to the documents that stored in other place . If you have any more questions , please feel free to ask . Thanks, Entan Ming

Surely as a business analyst, you should be looking at things outside of the site first? For instance, what manual forms do you guys have to fill out often, what processes can you potentially automate within SharePoint, what information silos can you remove and so on. It appears to me that you've approaching this the wrong way. The forums and product experts will be able to give you much more valuable advise than simple "how to's" if we have a more specific idea of what you're trying to achieve.Steven Andrews | SharePoint Professional | http://www.twitter.com/backpackerd00d | https://baron72.wordpress.com/

Sorry for the late reply. I didnt turn on my alerts so was not alerted when this message was posted. Actually the sharepoint site is not being used to automate any tasks. It will be mostly used to store template for funcitonal specs, business requirement documents and other user cases. So I have been asked to help with that. This site is a team site so each deaprtment under Operations gets their own space to share and upload their documents. Within Sharepoint there is an option to add a web part and you can add the documents folder or the pages folder or Images folder. But whatever documents are uploaded to the documents folder are shared between the different pages created under the Business Analyst work space if I add a webpart which has the documents folder. Probably thats the way its designed to work or I am doing something wrong.