Usage of Relevant Documents Web Part

If you have a SharePoint site where there are several document libraries and several people uploading and modifying content, it can be time consuming at times to view just the documents that are relevant to you. One of the solutions would be to create a filtered view to just show documents that are created or modified by you but WHAT IF you want to view all of your documents from different libraries within the site in just one view? SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has web part called Relevant Documents.


 Figure 1 - Relevant Documents Web Part

Relevant Documents is an out of the box web part that you can add to your site to do the following:

1. View all documents last modified by you
2. View all documents created by you
3. View all documents check out by your
4. View a link to the folder or the containing document library

Follow this blog on how to add web parts on your site

Step 1: In the web parts gallery, under Content Rollup select Relevant Documents, refer to Figure 1.

Step 2: To modify the web part, click on Edit Web Part
Figure 2: Edit Web Part

Step 3: Under the Data heading, select any display that you to enable. You can also specify how many documents you want to show up on your default view.


Figure 3: Configuring the web part