[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is it me, or is SharePoint needlessly compli...
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       Ask HN: Is it me, or is SharePoint needlessly complicated and
       annoying?
        
       All I want to do is create simple text pages and add pictures to
       them, as well as maintaining a document library. But the amount of
       options, views, cutomization settings, "hidden" display settings is
       10xing the amount of work that should be required.  I upload a file
       and neither myself nor my team can't see it. I see some text saying
       that files that are checked out by you are not visible to others.
       What? How do I check it back in if _I_ can't see it? What were they
       thinking?  One part of me thinks that it is designed this way so
       that it necessitates hiring a Sharepoint Developer or SharePoint
       Admin, which would provide for excellent job security...
        
       Author : TurkishPoptart
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-11-07 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | GartzenDeHaes wrote:
       | I missed a management meeting once and ended up with the
       | sharepoint support team. Yes, you'll need an admin, a developer,
       | a DBA, MS Premier support, and probably some contractors to set
       | it up and keep it working. It's even worse if you try to use the
       | workflow, forms, and process automation features.
        
         | quickthrower2 wrote:
         | > I missed a management meeting once and ended up with the
         | sharepoint support team
         | 
         | So Dilbertesque. My condolences.
        
       | burnout41 wrote:
       | My companies IT department shut off confluence on short notice
       | and told our teams that they had migrated all the content to
       | sharepont and we could use that going forward.
       | 
       | Five years of organized docs easily searchable turned into a pile
       | of office documents and half functioning "pages".
        
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