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Best. Web Parts. Ever.

In my dealings with customers who have implemented SharePoint, the number one complaint that always surfaces is poor navigation within a site collection. Jan Tielens has created a Navigation web part that is just what the doctor ordered. I've always had this on my list as something to build, but I've just never got around to it.

He has also written a very useful MyAlerts web part for use on individual WSS sites. As you may know, the portal and your My Site page has My Alerts web parts, but there's nothing similar for sites - you have to go to Site Settings to view your alerts. But the best feature of all is the ability to use this web part to add an alert to ALL lists on that site!

You can download these web parts at http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/02/12/72079.aspx. Good work Jan!

Published Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:20 PM by legault
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Hi Eric, thanks for mentioning my webparts! Only 2 comments: 1) my name is Tielens (mind the S) 2) I'm male ;-) cu Jan
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:50 PM by Anonymous

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My mistake Jan, sorry about that. The blog has been corrected.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:03 PM by Anonymous

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Hi i am bit new to WSS ans SPS. i am woking on it for last few days.
i wanted to know whether i can provide to security (like which usr can view / add/ delete ) to each item in list. for e.g each contact in Contact List. as far as i know theres no direct way.
is there any round about to it. or i need to develop some web parts and stuff like tht

pls help
thnx
Saturday, August 28, 2004 3:35 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Hi Jignesh. Unfortunately, SPS doesn't support list item or document level security. Security settings can only be applied at the list/library/site level.
Monday, August 30, 2004 10:26 AM by legault

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Hi - does SPS not have a way to remove dead links from the Sites Directory list on the default Sites Area of the portal? I've got sites in there that were deleted long ago and are still being listed in the sites list.

Thanks,
Dave
Friday, September 17, 2004 7:40 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Hi Dave. No, you have to delete them manually. An oversight from MS, obviously.
Friday, September 17, 2004 10:14 AM by legault

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Eric, do you know of a wepart or a way of adding a hotspot to an image?
I want users to click on a image so that this would take them to another site.

Thanks,
Alicja
Friday, October 01, 2004 6:04 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Hi Alicja. Best approach is to use Front Page 2003 to edit the page directly and add the image anywhere you want, then add the hotspot using FP's tools. Otherwise, you could paste the html containing the pointer to the image and the hotspot code inside a Page Viewer Web Part.
Friday, October 01, 2004 8:25 AM by legault

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We are not "allowed" to open our portal in FrontPage 2003. It was tested in there and it only created a lot of mess. I'll try your other suggestion.
Thanks, Eric.
Monday, October 04, 2004 7:40 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Alicja: FrontPage 2003 is designed to work with SharePoint though. If somebody messed up the pages, it is not FP's fault!
Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:58 AM by legault

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Eric, this is what an administator of the portal responded to my FrontPage question:
"It is because we are using templates to create areas and sites and we done a lot of customization in those templates. Once you open a page in FP, it breaks away from the template and the cuztomizations get messed up."
You see now how limited I am...
Friday, October 08, 2004 5:23 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Alicja: Here's a great article that really gets into good detail about Front Page 2003, ghosting and site templates:

http://msd2d.com/newsletter_tip.aspx?section=sharepoint&id=69a4775a-0063-4e24-a9eb-f853ac4f584e
Friday, October 08, 2004 2:59 PM by legault

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Hi Eric,
Just getting started w/ SPS deployment. I'm a little confused on the way Audiences work with grouped listings... I can specify one particular listing be published only to a certain audience. But when I add a grouped listings webpart, grouped by group, I see all the listings regardless of which audience I'm in. Only when I group by Audience does it 'hide' listings I'm not supposed to see. Is this the normal behavior, or is there something misbehaving in my installation?

Thank you,
Dave
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:24 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Dave - that's a doozy. You might want to try posting that one to microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver. Have you tried targeting that webpart to a particular audience as well?
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:50 AM by legault

# re: grouped listings web part

Dave - I actually talked at length with MS Tech Support about that exact issue with the Grouped Listings web part. After weeks of back and forth, they finally talked to the developers, who claimed that the behavior you describe is by design. I find it to be a serious limitation of the web part. I've also found recently that I would like to be able to select only some of the groups to be displayed. Sounds like someone ought to come up with an improved web part. If I could get my hands on the particulars of how they do what's already there, I'd give it a shot, but I'm struggling to get going.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:35 PM by Anonymous

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Hi ,
Ia m Kinda New to WSS and Portal. I started working on them .Please assist me about alerts and Back ups.I wanted best practices for backups and best practices for alerts managements.
Thanks all
Hoping to get anwers from you

Sree
Monday, March 28, 2005 3:44 PM by Anonymous

# Page Viewer Web Part question

We just recently launched SP03 as our intranet solution so I have a lot of questions. One is re: the Page Viewer Web Pt. Is there any way to hide the top navigation of the page you want to view, so that you just see the page contents and nothing else? When I try to change the Appearance width and height to do this, I just get scroll bars.
Friday, April 08, 2005 2:21 PM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Shelton: If you mean the Title bar of the Web Part itself, they yes - that can be hidden. If you mean *any* of the content inside the web page that is getting pulled into the web part - then no. The Page View web part reads whatever is inside the .html page; you'd have to modify that page itself if it is displaying information that you don't want.
Friday, April 08, 2005 2:24 PM by legault

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Thanks - yep - i was talking about the content within the page - thanks for the quick reply!
Friday, April 08, 2005 2:31 PM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Is there a way to adjust automatically the height of Web Capture or Page Viewer Web Part to the actual height of the HTML that it displays. If I don't provide a fixed height but select the "No. Adjust the height to fit the zone", I'm getting a constant height and I need to scroll down/up to se the rest of the displayed data (which my users would like to avoid...)
Rgds,
- Oded.
Monday, June 27, 2005 9:07 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Oded: No, I don't believe you can detect the "ideal" display for the HTML that gets rendered.
Monday, July 04, 2005 10:04 AM by legault

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Any idea on how to hide certain Admin-only links from lesser roled users?

I can't find anything about this. (Actually, I find some entries that just say 'use JavaScript').

Any help will be most appreciated...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:23 PM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Maybe I need some sleep, but aren't admin links already hidden from users who do not have admin rights? I'm so used to being an admin I forget what regular users see. I know this was definitely a problem with SPS 2001 though, and for that version there was a JavaScript solution.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:33 PM by legault

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Please tell me if theer is soemway to have a document level security. That is applying security to a particular document (other than password protecting that file) or an entire document library.
Monday, February 20, 2006 3:21 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Cndla: See http://www.spstools.net or http://www.optimusbt.com/products_securedoc.htm for products that implement item-level security in SharePoint.
Monday, February 20, 2006 2:57 PM by legault

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Hi,
I read about hiding the title bar of a web part and that is exactly what I need. However I need to do it programatically. Thanks.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:43 AM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Martin: Check out the code example on this page:

WebPart Class:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/smpcWebPart_SV01014606.asp?frame=true
Friday, March 10, 2006 1:14 PM by legault

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Is there a webpart that allows for Feedback that is anonymous? In other words, there would be simply a window for entering text and a submit button that would e-mail a specific e-mail address.
Monday, May 15, 2006 1:52 PM by Anonymous

# re: Best. Web Parts. Ever.

Richard: The closest thing to this is a Survey list. Responses to the survey can be configured to be anonymous, and the survey owner can get notified of new responses by creating an alert on the list.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:14 AM by legault
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