In this Wrox Blox, you’ll learn how to create powerful Dashboards for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. First, we introduce Web Part Pages and some of the out-of-the box Web Parts available in WSS. We then look at how to use Web Part Connections to add interactivity to our Dashboards. Later we create advanced Dashboard Views using the Data Form Web Part available with SharePoint Designer 2007. While the author focuses on Windows SharePoint Services, all of the topics discussed also apply to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as it is a superset of WSS. This Wrox Blox will be valuable for anyone wishing to share data on their SharePoint site. Table of Contents
Web Part Pages Overview 1
Creating New Pages from the UI 1
Creating from SharePoint Designer 3
Adding Dashboard Pages to Site Navigation 4
Web Parts 5
SharePoint Web Parts 5
Managing Web Parts 7
List View Web Parts 9
Form Web Parts and Web Part Connections 11
Data Form Web Part 12
Creating from a List 12
Modifying Existing Data Form Web Parts 15
Conditional Formatting 18
Creating from a Web Service 20
Linked Data Sources 21
Advanced Dashboards 24
Parameters and Filters 24
Creating Master-Detail Views 26
Conclusion 29
About Raymond Mitchell 30
