WSU-OAI Tech Topics

"Summary: As intranet projects benefit from powerful implementation platforms, teams should focus on optimizing the user experience for specific organizational needs, as 4 winning examples show."

Content Query Web Part for Rollup with Style: "Immediately I thought: 1. Content Query Web Part, with a common "Status Report" content type being used across Sub-sites 2. Traffic lights or something 3. Hmm… maybe some kind of layer that popped up when the user moused over it? Easy done with an Alt tag on an image 4. Link to the Status report document "

"This article is part of a series as I document my processes of discovery for creating jQuery solutions in SharePoint. To view the entire series, click the link at the bottom of this article to view all of the articles in the series. - Mark"

Unicode contains some characters that resemble icons, but can be specified as text -- very useful for cross-browser iconography.

formula generator for conditional coloring of a "choice" column. Requires Christophe's "HTML in Calculated Column" javascript.

A true progress bar for a long-running process in an ASP.NET page. The simplest form uses the Session object for communication, but other methods are discussed.

"For this ASP.NET tutorial we will dive into the AJAX capabilities of the Chart control including real-time data and interactivity. "

"Wave doesn't offer a built-in way to export the content of a wave to a file, but the PDF Wave Exporter is a start."

Free to download, install, and use: "Bamboo MashPoint REST API (beta 1) is a REST-based remote interface to the data in MashPoint and SharePoint. At its core, the MashPoint REST API is a framework for getting data in and out of SharePoint using the standard HTTP-based, REST-style system, in which data is moved around as representations of resources via HTTP methods. A consistent number of resources and representations keeps the interface simple, while maintaining maximum flexibility and power as the standard SP Object Model."

"Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web."

"The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard is a tool for *SharePoint 2007/2010* which provides the means to deploy the following content: - site collections - webs - lists - folders - list items (including files) Content is exported using the Content Migration API as a .cmp file "