Building Dashboards for Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 Using Sharepoint Designer 2007

by Raymond Mitchell

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 ContentsWeb Part Pages Overview 1Creating New Pages from the UI 1Creating from SharePoint Designer 3Adding Dashboard Pages to Site Navigation 4Web Parts 5SharePoint Web Parts 5Managing Web Parts 7List View Web Parts 9Form Web Parts and Web Part Connections 11Data Form Web Part 12Creating from a List 12Modifying Existing Data Form Web Parts 15Conditional Formatting 18Creating from a Web Service 20Linked Data Sources 21Advanced Dashboards 24Parameters and Filters 24Creating Master-Detail Views 26Conclusion 29About Raymond Mitchell 30

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First published March 2, 2009