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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Back by Popular Request: SharePoint Easy Tabs Interface

A couple of weeks ago, Christophe Humbert from Path to SharePoint presented a live online workshops, Easy Tabs Interface, to rave reviews. We’ve had numerous requests to run this one again, so we found a slot on October 8 at 1:00pm EST for him to deliver another session.

Christophe is spending time touching up the solutions and expanding on the context in which the solutions can be used, so we are extending this session to two hours.

If you are one of those who requested the workshop, please register immediately, as the first one sold out and we do not have room for another session until January. Take a quick look at the screencast below, and we hope to see you on October 8.

 

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16 Responses to “Back by Popular Request: SharePoint Easy Tabs Interface”
  1. Kelly says:

    Thanks so much for the great webpart, and I have signed up for the workshope, but can this solution be used with a group of data view web parts?

    Thanks, Kelly

  2. Christophe says:

    Absolutely Kelly. All the default SharePoint Web Parts have the same structure, and the Easy Tabs will recognize them.

    This is also true for the other Web Parts provided in the workshop – accordion and “Quick Menu” – as they are based on the same technique.

    I have an example with a Data Form Web Part here:
    http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/FusionCharts/

  3. Kelly says:

    Thanks so much – looking forward to the training!

    I must have done something wrong – as I uploaded the easy tabs and placed them in a web part zone with a bunch of data view web parts. The tabs show in the edit mode, but not in view.

    Did notice that a commentor on your site had a similar issue and provided a solution. I’ll see what I’m doing wrong!

    :-)

  4. Christophe says:

    Kelly, make sure the Web Parts have the chrome set to “Title” or “Title and border”.
    In the workshop you’ll get a different version that deals with Web Parts without title.

  5. Kelly says:

    Super! Can’t wait for the workshop!

  6. Deb says:

    I attended your Easy Tabs workshop and put them to work on my test site right away! They work great! However, is there a way to get more than 2 rows? We have some sites that the users went crazy with webparts. The site has been branded, so the tabs push the page out to accommodate all webparts in the 2 rows. Any suggestions would be appreciated!! Thanks.

  7. Christophe says:

    No problem Mark, I’m here :-)

    But you’re right, I’ll respond on the STP forum.

  8. Christophe says:

    Deb, I have posted an answer on the STP “Path to SharePoint workshops” forum:
    http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/topic/easy-tabs-v31-splitting-the-tabs-into-3-rows

  9. rameshusa says:

    Hi,

    I have used your easytabs in 3 webpartszone in a page. Now, I would like to find out how to set the Focus on a particular tab in other zones, when I click on a particular zone in WPZone 1. For example,

    WPZone Tab US, ASIA
    WPZone1 Tab US, ASIA
    WPZone2 Tab US, ASIA
    WPZone3 Tab US, ASIA

    So, when I click on Asia on the WPZone, all other zones should change the focus to ASIA, regardless of what is set in cookie?

    Could you please guide me on how to do this? I went through your code and could not figure out.

    Thanks,

    Ramesh

    • rameshusa says:

      I am also new to Javascript and hence, if i set the cookie within a …. block, can I or how can I access the cookie from another block..

      Thanks,

      Ramesh

  10. Chris says:

    Hi,
    We are using SP 2010, and I would love to be able to use EasyTabs, it’s exactly what I need. But it appears that it won’t work with 2010. Do you know if there has been any progress with making them work with the latest version of SP?

    Thanks!

  11. … and you fixed it how? — Mark

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