Web Parts in common with WSSv3

Content Editor Web Part
Use for formatted text, tables, and images.

Form Web Part
Use to connect simple form controls to other Web Parts.

Image Web Part
Use to display pictures and photos.

Members
Use the Members Web Part to see a list of the site members and their online status.

Page Viewer Web Part
Use to display linked content, such as files, folders, or Web pages. The linked content is isolated from other content on the Web Part Page.

Relevant Documents
Use this webpart to display documents that are relevant to the current user.

User Tasks
Use this webpart to display tasks that are assigned to the current user.

XML Web Part
Use for XML, and XSL Transformation of the XML.

List View Web Part

Data View Web Part

Web Parts specific to MOSS 2007

Business Data

Business Data Actions
Display a list of actions from the Business Data Catalog.

Business Data Item
Display one item from a data source in the Business Data Catalog.

Business Data Item Builder
Creates a Business Data item from parameters in the query string and provides it to other web parts. This web part is only used on Business Data profile pages.

Business Data List
Display a list of items from a data source in the Business Data Catalog.

Business Data Related List
Display a list of items related to one or more parent items from a data source in the Business Data Catalog.

Content Rollup

Colleague Tracker
Displays your list of colleagues and any recent changes they made have had.

Memberships
Displays your site and distribution list memberships.

My Links
Use to display your links

My SharePoint Sites
Use to display documents authored by you on sites where you are a member and sites of your choice.

My Workspaces
Displays sites created under your My Site.

Site Aggregator
Use to display sites of your choice.

Dashboard

Key Performance Indicators
Shows a list of status indicators. Status indicators display important measures for your organization, and show how your organization is performing with respect to your goals.

KPI Details
Displays the details of a single status indicator. Status indicators display an important measure for an organization and may be obtained from other data sources including SharePoint lists, Excel workbooks, and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services KPIs.

Other

Excel Web Access
Use the Excel Web Access to interact with an Excel 2007 workbook as a Web page.

I need to…
Displays tasks and tools from a list

IView Web Part
Displays iViews from SAP portal servers.

RSS Viewer
Renders RSS Feed

This Week in Pictures
Use to display the images library in the News web

WSRP Consumer Web Part
Displays portlets from web sites using WSRP 1.1.

Filters

Authored List Filter
Filter the contents of web parts using a list of values entered by the page author.

Business Data Catalog Filter
Filter the contents of web parts using a list of values from the Business Data Catalog.

Current User Filter
Filter the contents of web parts by using properties of the current page.

Date Filter
Filter the contents of web parts by allowing users to enter or pick a date.

Filter Actions
Filter Actions

Page Field Filter
Filter the contents of web parts using information about the current page.

Query String (URL) Filter
Filter the contents of web parts using values passed via the query string.

SharePoint List Filter
Filter the contents of web parts by using a list of values from a Office SharePoint Server list.

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Filter
Filter the contents of web parts using a list of values from SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services cubes.

Text Filter
Filter the contents of web parts by allowing users to enter a text value.

Misc

Contact Details
Use to display details about a contact for this page or site

Outlook Web Access

My Calendar
Use to display your calendar. This part works with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and above.

My Contacts
Displays your contacts using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

My Inbox
Displays your inbox using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later.

My Mail Folder
Displays your calendar using Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or later.

My Tasks
Displays your tasks using Outlook Web Access  for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later.

Search

Advanced Search Box
Entry point for advanced search

People Search Box
Entry point for people search

People Search Core Results
Web part to display the people search results.

Search Box
Entry point for search.

Search Core Results
Web part to display the search results.

Search High Confidence Results
Web part to display the special term and high confidence results.

Search Paging
Displays search paging.

Search Statistics
Displays search statistics.

Search Summary
Displays search summary.

Site Directory

Categories
Displays categories from the Site Directory

Sites in Category
Displays sites in the Site Directory

Top Sites
Display the top sites from Site Directory

You can use this process to develop Department and School Development Plans

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Make snow fall on your webpage this Christmas!

Here is a great falling snow javascript that doesn't need images uploaded to your server. It uses font types to make the snowflake images which makes it easier for users to install to their websites.

It is a one step script which you place into your webpage straight after the <body> tag.

Configure the variables at the top of the script to set the number of snowflakes, the colors, fonts and speed. Nothing else needs configuring.

1. Open your site/page in SharePoint Designer

2.Copy and paste the falling snow javascript below after the <body> tag of your html.

<script>
// CREDITS: // Snowmaker Copyright (c) 2003 Peter Gehrig. All rights reserved.
// Distributed by http://www.hypergurl.com // Permission given to use the script
on webpages provided that this notice remains as is. // Set the number of snowflakes
(more than 30 - 40 not recommended) var snowmax=35 // Set the colors for the snow.
Add as many colors as you like var snowcolor=new Array("#aaaacc","#ddddFF","#ccccDD")
// Set the fonts, that create the snowflakes. Add as many fonts as you like var
snowtype=new Array("Arial Black","Arial Narrow","Times","Comic
Sans MS") // Set the letter that creates your snowflake (recommended:*) var
snowletter="*" // Set the speed of sinking (recommended values range
from 0.3 to 2) var sinkspeed=0.6 // Set the maximal-size of your snowflaxes var
snowmaxsize=22 // Set the minimal-size of your snowflaxes var snowminsize=8 //
Set the snowing-zone // Set 1 for all-over-snowing, set 2 for left-side-snowing
// Set 3 for center-snowing, set 4 for right-side-snowing var snowingzone=3 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CONFIGURATION ENDS HERE ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Do not edit below this line var snow=new Array() var marginbottom var marginright
var timer var i_snow=0 var x_mv=new Array(); var crds=new Array(); var lftrght=new
Array(); var browserinfos=navigator.userAgent var ie5=document.all&&document.getElementById&&!browserinfos.match(/Opera/)
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all var opera=browserinfos.match(/Opera/)
var browserok=ie5||ns6||opera function randommaker(range) { rand=Math.floor(range*Math.random())
return rand } function initsnow() { if (ie5 || opera) { marginbottom = document.body.clientHeight
marginright = document.body.clientWidth } else if (ns6) { marginbottom = window.innerHeight
marginright = window.innerWidth } var snowsizerange=snowmaxsize-snowminsize for
(i=0;i<=snowmax;i++) { crds[i] = 0; lftrght[i] = Math.random()*15; x_mv[i]
= 0.03 + Math.random()/10; snow[i]=document.getElementById("s"+i) snow[i].style.fontFamily=snowtype[randommaker(snowtype.length)]
snow[i].size=randommaker(snowsizerange)+snowminsize snow[i].style.fontSize=snow[i].size
snow[i].style.color=snowcolor[randommaker(snowcolor.length)] snow[i].sink=sinkspeed*snow[i].size/5
if (snowingzone==1) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright-snow[i].size)} if (snowingzone==2)
{snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size)} if (snowingzone==3) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size)+marginright/4}
if (snowingzone==4) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size)+marginright/2}
snow[i].posy=randommaker(2*marginbottom-marginbottom-2*snow[i].size) snow[i].style.left=snow[i].posx
snow[i].style.top=snow[i].posy } movesnow() } function movesnow() { for (i=0;i<=snowmax;i++)
{ crds[i] += x_mv[i]; snow[i].posy+=snow[i].sink snow[i].style.left=snow[i].posx+lftrght[i]*Math.sin(crds[i]);
snow[i].style.top=snow[i].posy if (snow[i].posy>=marginbottom-2*snow[i].size
|| parseInt(snow[i].style.left)>(marginright-3*lftrght[i])){ if (snowingzone==1)
{snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright-snow[i].size)} if (snowingzone==2) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size)}
if (snowingzone==3) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size)+marginright/4}
if (snowingzone==4) {snow[i].posx=randommaker(marginright/2-snow[i].size)+marginright/2}
snow[i].posy=0 } } var timer=setTimeout("movesnow()",50) } for (i=0;i<=snowmax;i++)
{ document.write("<span id='s"+i+"' style='position:absolute;top:-"+snowmaxsize+"'>"+snowletter+"</span>")
} if (browserok) { window.onload=initsnow } </script>

Firstly, do not delete any of the page controls, as this will lead to lots of errors and a broken master page.

Instead, delete the original link for the Search Bar, for example.

    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat="server">
    <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="SmallSearchInputBox"/>
    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>

And create a new section, just before the </form> tag:

  <!--- --- ---  Hidden Placeholders --- --- --->
  <asp:Panel visible="false" runat="server">
   <!-- Place unused Content Placeholders here -->
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat="server"/>
  </asp:Panel>

Anything in this hidden section will disappear from view but not break the page!

One of the biggest problems that end-users of Sharepoint face, is the ability to gain access to the correct site in Sharepoint to save the information too. There are various ways in which to do this:

• Create a new network place under "My Network Places" that acts as a mapped drive.
• Add favourites to Internet Explorer to remind the users of where these site are located.
• Change the default save location of MS Office 2007 to permanently look at "My Site" on Sharepoint.

Unfortunately all of these solutions have there individual problems and challenges and therefore none of them form an adequate solution for the user. Fortunately Microsoft created a solution to this problem in the SSP of MOSS that not many people are aware of. This is done by publishing the shortcuts directly from Sharepoint onto the users desktop.

This can be done by navigating to the SSP using the Sharepoint Admin Console and then selecting the link called: "Publish links to Office client applications".

A list will then be made available that will allow you to define as many shortcuts to Sharepoint content as you like. New items can be created by selecting the "New" option from the menu.

There are a number of options that can be configured on this page:

1. Define the URL that will point to the content in Sharepoint
2. Descriptive name that will be used to refer to this location.
3. The Type allows you to define what object in Sharepoint the Link is referring too.
4. The target audience that will have the ability to see this shortcut.

Once all the options have been completed and committed the link will display in the list.

At this point we can check if the solution worked by opening one of the MS Office applications like "Word" and attempt to save a document.

You will notice that on the navigation bar on the left there is an option called "My Sharepoint Sites" and by selecting this option all the shortcuts are displayed in the main viewing pane. Selecting the shortcut will then open up the Sharepoint location as defined in the link.

I have had some problems in the past getting this link to appear and will therefore provide some tips:

• It sometimes takes some time for these links to be published, so be patient
• You can speed up the process by having the user navigate to their "My Site"
• If this process does not happen automatically the links can be setup manually on the users machine.

The shortcuts are stored on the users machine as indicated in the images above: "C:\Documents and Settings\<User Account>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\My Sharepoint Sites". A new shortcut can be manually created by dragging and dropping from "My Network Places".

I hope you have found this information useful as I have found that it makes a big difference to the user experience with MS Office 2007 and Sharepoint.

Paste into content editor webpart!

<OBJECT id="VIDEO" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" type="application/x-oleobject">

       <PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="/Docs/[Your Document Library]/[folder]/[your file.wmv]">

       <PARAM NAME="animationatStart" VALUE="true">

       <PARAM NAME="transparentatStart" VALUE="true">

       <PARAM NAME="SendPlayStateChangeEvents" VALUE="True">

       <PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="false">

       <PARAM name="uiMode" value="full">

</OBJECT>

A discussion board is an online notice board. You will probably see some discussions on your staff pages, but you can also use discussion boards on your pupils and families areas to start group discussions.

How to add a discussion board

1. Navigate to the site where you want to add your discussion board

2. Select the 'View All Site Content ' link in the top left corner

3. Click the 'Create' button

4. The main create page will load up

5. Under Communications choose 'Discussion Board'

6. The 'New' page will load up

7. Enter the Name of the discussion board. Use a self descriptive name like 'Main Staff Discussion Board'

8. Choose whether or note you want it to appear in the quick launch bar

9. Press 'Create'

10. Your new discussion board will appear.

11. Press the 'New' button to start a new discussion.

12. The 'New Item' page loads

13. Enter the subject title for your new discussion. Something like: 'What improvements would you like to see on the VLE?' or for the pupils 'What is your favourite subject or topic?

NOTE: Be careful not to use a discussion board as a way to get data back from your users, if you want to get data back from users you will need to use a Survey.

14. In the body of the 'New Item' page you can enter your first opinion, or leave it blank if you are just posing a question.

15. You will now see that your new discussion topic has appeared in the list.

The search feature in MOSS 2007 is extremely powerful and can be configured in various ways that include searching your current list, document library and site, and normal network shares.

Most websites let you search the site. You will see that there is a search box in the top right of most of the pages in SharePoint. Users can use this search box to search the site or list that they're viewing.

Scenario

You are planning a lesson on trench warfare, and you want to see if there are already some resources available.

You could just go to the history document library and browse for all documents that have trench and warfare in the title. And you would find some results, but what if the title is WW2? What if the English department have some war poetry resources?

The steps below will show you how to search just document libraries and lists, the current site you are in and the whole SharePoint Portal

1. The image below shows a History Document Library, that has lots of resources in it.

2. In the search box enter 'trench warfare' and the results will be displayed. The result page shows the user the following:

· Title of the resource

· Some instances of the search criteria – trench warfare

· Location of the resource

But what about the possible English resources?

On the top navigation bar you will see a search tab. By pressing the search tab button you will be taken to the Search Centre

3. In the search box enter war and press the magnifying glass. Your results will show information from any where on the portal that has the word 'war' in it.

1. Once you have created your document save it where you normally save your documents.

2. Now in your document library please the upload button

3. You will now see the upload screen

4. Press the browse button

5. The default Windows browse button will appear and browse to where your document is.

6. Press OK

7. You will notice that the location (path) is now displayed in the name box

8. You can choose to overwrite existing files if required

9. Now press the OK button

10. You will now be able to enter the properties that you specified earlier.

11. Fill in the required information, which in this case is:

Title: Test Document

Type of resource: Lesson Plan

Type of document: Word

12. Press OK

13. You document has now been uploaded to the document library, and the document library is automatically shown.

Scenario

You are on your department Site and you want to create a place to store all KS3 related documents. You will be uploading SOW, Lesson Plans, IWB Resources, Agendas and Minutes. These documents will be a selection of Word Documents, PowerPoint Shows, PDF Documents and IWB Flipcharts.

You want to be able to upload the resources and also categorise them according to the above, so when you save or upload the resource you will be asked a series of questions that ensure the resource is saved correctly.

The following steps will show you how to achieve this.

Creating a Document Library

1. On the Quick Launch tool bar select View All Site Content, and you will see the screen below

2. At the top click on the create button, you will then see a screen asking you what type of content you want to create

3. Choose Document Library, you will then be prompted to enter a name for your document library (there are some other questions, but ignore them)

4. At the bottom of that page press the Create button

5.You now have your new empty document library, which is automatically shown for you.

6. Press the Settings button and a drop down box appears.

7. Select Create Column, you will now see another screen asking you to enter your requirements for your new column.

NOTE: A column creates a field in the document library so when you save a document or upload a file to your document library you will be asked to enter some data into the field. An example would be you have a document library called Meetings, where you want to save all your agendas and minutes. You would create a column so that when you save your document you will be asked to specify whether the document is an agenda or minutes. This process is also referred as entering metadata.

Creating columns is an important part of your document management, as once you have created your columns you can then find your resources easier and create user friendly views for your documents.

8.Enter 'Type of Resource'

9.Select the Choice Radio button

10. In the description field enter ' Choice for type of resource'

11. The next choice is 'Require that the column contains information' select the Yes radio button.

12. Next in the ' Type each choice on a separate line: ' Enter the following:

· IWB Resources

· Lesson Plan

· Meeting Agenda

· Meeting Minutes

· SOW

13. The next section is completely the users choice, for this example select 'Radio Buttons'

14. Now Press OK.

15. Repeat the steps to create another column for Type of Document, and the choices need to be the following

· Excel

· IWB Flipchart

· PDF

· PowerPoint

· Word

16. You have now created your document library.

Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. SCORM also defines how content may be packaged into a transferable ZIP file.

SCORM is a specification of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, which comes out of the Office of the United States Secretary of Defence.

SCORM 2004 introduces a complex idea called sequencing, which is a set of rules that specify the order in which a learner may experience content objects. The standard uses XML.

The Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) is a tool that lets educators create an assignment out of any document in a SharePoint Document Library.

Detailed assessment data from interactive assignments are supported through support for SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and Class Server formats; basic assignment and tracking functions are available for any electronic document. Meaning, you can assign everything from rich e-Learning SCORM resources to standard Office documents—even PDF and MP3 files.

You can download SLK from http://www.codeplex.com/SLK

Add the Content Editor Web Part to your page and on the Source Editor section add the following  JavaScript.

<SCRIPT language=”JavaScript” >

function queryString(parameter) {

  var loc = location.search.substring(1, location.search.length);

  var param_value = false;

  var params = loc.split(”&”);

  for (i=0; i<params.length;i++) {

      param_name = params[i].substring(0,params[i].indexOf(’='));

      if (param_name == parameter) {

          param_value = params[i].substring(params[i].indexOf(’=')+1)

      }

  }

  if (param_value) {

      return param_value;

  }

  else {

      return false; //Here determine return if no parameter is found

  }

}

function right(e) {

if (navigator.appName == ‘Netscape’ &&

(e.which == 3 || e.which == 2))

return false;

else if (navigator.appName == ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’ &&

(event.button == 2 || event.button == 3)) {

alert(”Sorry, you do not have permission to right click.”);

return false;

}

return true;

}

document.onmousedown=right;

document.onmouseup=right;

if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);

if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEUP);

window.onmousedown=right;

window.onmouseup=right;

</script>

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All done.

SharePoint’s Content Query Web Part is an underrated feature that can easily be deployed to allow queries from multiple lists.  While this may sound not too exciting, in actuality there are a number of really clever uses for Content Queries.  For example, you can have a Content Query that displays all files that have been changed in the repository each day. Or a master list of the contents of several pages and sites.  Or a list of all files modified by a particular user, or those that contain specific keywords, or any number of complex queries.

To add the Content Query Web Part to your MOSS 2007 sites, follow these steps:

1. Under Site Actions click Create Page
2. Under Web Pages click on Web Part Page:

1. Enter a title for the new Content Query Web Part and in the Layout section select the design of the page you want to create:

1. From the new page that then appears, click the Add a Web Part link
2. Under All Web Parts, under the Default section, check Content Query Web Part:

1. Click Add and the new Web Part appears on the page

The steps above create the Content Query Web Part.  Now, it needs customizing to show what you want to see.  To do this, you decide what to query (a single list, an entire site, of a collection of sites) and whether to query by list type or list content.  You can also create filters to narrow results to your criteria.  As a last step, you can format the Web Part to control the display of the resulting information.

The exact customization depends on what you are trying to display, but an example will show the process.  In the example Content Query Web Part below, we display all documents modified by a specific user in all the sites in the current site collection.  The steps to customise the Web Part are:

1. From the Content Query Web Part page you created, click the Edit button on the right of the title bar and select Modify Shared Web Part
2. This will display a page with the Web Part in the left pane, and a set of parameters in the right pane. You can click on any of the items on the right pane to expand and set parameters:

1. Under Query, click Show items from all sites in this site collection
2. In the List Type section, click Document Library
3. In the Content Type section, under Show items of this content type group select Document Content Types

1. In the Additional Filters section under Shows items when click Name, then in the next field select Equal To, then enter the user ID you want:

1. Click OK and the Web Part is completed.

You can create additional Web Parts on the same page, each with customized Content Queries, or you can set up different pages as you need.  Working with Content Query Web Parts is easy to do, and allows you to customize your pages to show exactly what you need.

There are many different ways to download videos from YouTube, convert them and then upload them to play in your site but there is a very simply way of adding them.

Go and find your video on YouTube.

If the user has allowed it you will see an embedded section down the right hand side. You will then see some code down just below it. Copy this text.

So now you should have something like this ready to paste into your SharePoint site

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QeoKQbT8BKs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QeoKQbT8BKs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Open your SharePoint site and add a Content Editor Web Part to your page

When you’ve loaded the web part properties click on Source Editor.

Paste the code into this box.

Now click on OK and Ok again and you will see your video on your SharePoint site.

You now have your video in your sharepoint site