How to create a “5 Latest Dox” view and place it on a SharePoint Dashboard

This is a common enough request that I thought I’d quickly create a video of it. Ignore my little typos as you see them. 🙂

Business Requirement

I want to be able to see at a glance on my SharePoint Dashboard, the 5 latest documents that my department has worked on, in a particular document library.

The Solution

• Create a view in your library
• Set the sort to be the modified date in descending order
• Turn off folder viewing
• Set the list view to only show 5 items (in our case, due to the sort order, the 5 latest will appear)
• Add the library to the dashboard
• Customize the look and feel (select the newly created view and adjust the title view to indicate what the user is looking at)

Here’s a short video showing how

Video Link: http://screencast.com/t/WvAvnEXMgX5D