Showing individual elements of list on site

Question

I am completely new to Sharepoint, but I need to make something:

I have a list in my group, and one of the columns in that group is a Choice column. That is to categorize each element in that list. How can I make a site in which I only show elements from one category? Also, I want to pick and choose which columns I show.

Answer 1

What you can try is creating views. Here is some information on that. The way you would go about creating your view is by adding a filter condition that matches the column and the value to it.

Cheers and happy SharePointing!

Answer 2

I would add to what Tanmay said by saying that you could also set up a view that filters on a name e.g. for a Task List.

In the List Settings select either Create View or Modify View. If you are creating a new view, scroll down through the available columns until you come to the Filter heading - then in the name column (TaskAssignedTo) set the filter to [Me]. The new view will filter on the user who is logged in - you will see your own tasks, your colleague will see their own tasks.

[Me] = a sort of dynamic username filter.

Also check out the Group By feature in list settings. You can group items (or tasks) by the Category and then by a User Name field. This will present a useful summary views, especially useful when there are lots of categories or users.

Since you are just starting to use Sharepoint, I don't know if you are the Administrator or a user, but this blog has a useful post on columns - columns can be added at the List level (local tier) or at the site level (higher tier). This is a really useful blog by the way, it is a favourite of mine.