When you add a discussion comment to a slide in a Microsoft
PowerPoint presentation that is stored in a document library in SharePoint Team
Services from Microsoft or in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, the discussion comment may be displayed in all other PowerPoint
presentations that are stored in the same document library. You cannot initiate
separate discussions for different PowerPoint presentations.
This issue may occur if the following conditions exist:
- The PowerPoint presentations are stored in the same
document library in SharePoint Services.
- You add a discussion comment to a slide that is after the
first slide in a presentation.
When you view the first slide of a presentation in Microsoft
Internet Explorer, the name of the .ppt file is displayed in the Uniform
Resource Locator (URL). The name of the .ppt file is not included in the URL
when you view the remaining slides of a presentation. Instead, the number of
the slide that you are viewing is displayed in the URL. For example, if your
presentation, MySlides.ppt, contains 5 slides, the URL of the first slide that
appears in the
Address bar in Internet Explorer is the
following, where
ServerName is the name of the
server on which SharePoint Team Services is installed, and
DocumentLibrary is the name of the Document Library:
http://ServerName/DocumentLibrary/MySlides.ppt
The URL of all later slides appears as the following, where
SlideNumber is the number of the slide that is
displayed in the browser window:
http://ServerName/DocumentLibrary/SlideNumber
The URL of a slide number is the same for any presentation that
is located in the same document library. Because of this, SharePoint
Services cannot differentiate between presentations, and you cannot initiate
separate discussions if a discussion comment is added to a slide that follows
the first slide of a presentation.
To work around this issue, use a different document library
for each PowerPoint presentation. To create a new document library in
SharePoint Services:
- Connect to your SharePoint Services Web site, and then
click Documents.
- Click New Document Library.
- In the Name and
Description boxes, type a name and description for the new
document library.
- In the Template Type box, click the
template that you want to use as the default document type for all new files
you create in the document library.
- Specify if you want to display the document library on the
Quick Launch bar, and then click Create. The
new document library is added to the SharePoint Services Web
site.
For more information about how to perform SharePoint Team
Services administrative tasks, visit the following Microsoft SharePoint Team
Services Administrator's Guide Web site: