6 Reasons to Steer Clear of Folders in SharePoint
At Collabion, we build products for Microsoft SharePoint and Power BI. Our products enable you to get quick insights from your data, through meaningful visualizations that work across desktops and mobile devices.
Our flagship product, Collabion Charts for SharePoint, is a charting web part that provides a quick & easy way to create insightful charts and dashboards in SharePoint. It works with SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, without the need of PerformancePoint Server. Built keeping the business user in mind, this product is a DIY dashboard creator, which doesn’ t require any coding at all.
We have a wizard based charting solution available for SharePoint Online, called Collabion Charts for SharePoint Online. It is very easy to use and enables the user to create beautiful charts from SharePoint lists in less than 5 simple steps.
While Microsoft SharePoint does support folders for storing documents, many SharePoint experts discourage users from doing so, since it robs the platform of many of its advanced and flexible features. We did our own research on the subject and found 6 major reasons to avoid creating folders in SharePoint, which we have presented in the infographic below. Take a look.