How to Create a Dataset in a Sharepoint List
How to Create a Dataset in a Sharepoint List
Learn how to create structured datasets in SharePoint for better reporting. In this Data Survival Skills session, Robin shows how to build a Near Miss reporting list from scratch—turning safety requirements into a clean, organized data structure. Starting with key fields like Reporter, Event Date, Project ID, and Notes, you’ll see how to configure required fields, enable audit trails, and link records to existing project data with lookup columns. The goal isn’t just to store data but to enable accurate reporting, improve data quality, and support proactive safety tracking.
If you’re a data analyst, you’ve no doubt learned different skills, techniques, and tools pertaining to data. But sometimes it can be difficult to know when and why to apply these tools. In this weekly series, instructor Robin Hunt explains a new skill, secret, tip, technique, best practice, or golden piece of advice in each installment. Robin covers topics that can help you do your job better, such as joining data and data designs, privacy for data, transforming and cleaning data, and making data sets and visualizing data.
Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.



