The basic functionality within the SharePoint interface is limiting when it comes to presenting graphical information. In a set of live online, upcoming workshops, we will present ways to display information with charts, graphs, and through animations, all without recourse to the server.

All solutions are clientside, using the Content Editor Web Part to embed jQuery or Javascript code to implement the solution and will work in WSS as well as MOSS. You will be provided with all of the resources and techniques needed to immediately add charts, graphs or animations to your own SharePoint site. As part of the workshops, you will gain hands-on experience while working within a SharePoint site that we will provide you.

If you haven’t taken a live online workshop with us previously, please read the reviews from previous participants, and then plan on joining us for one of the sessions within the next week. I look forward to seeing you there.

Mark

SharePoint Charts and Graphs: Part 01

The limitations for displaying charts and graphs in a WSS site can be daunting. At least in MOSS, there are Excel Services available. In this live online, hands-on workshop, we will go over various solutions for providing dynamically generated charts and graphs in a WSS implementation.

The data used to drive the charts will come from SharePoint lists, libraries, RSS feeds and web services. Don’t store your charts and graphs in Excel where noone can see them… expose them in the web browser through SharePoint! Read more…

jQuery Animations in SharePoint

Christophe Humbert from Path to SharPoint has been working diligently over the past few months, designing simple drag and drop solutions to spiff up your SharePoint pages. In this live online workshop, he’ll help you implement a few tricks that will put your site a notch above the norm. We can pretty much guarantee that the solutions shown in this workshop are something you haven’t seen before in SharePoint, such as turning a basic Announcements List into a scrolling news page or how to add an analog click to your pages. This is great to have when you want to display different time zones for global teams.

Another technique Christophe demonstrates is how to create countdown timers within a SharePoint Calendar! This is a unique way to use the functionality of the date and time fields in SharePoint. Read more…

Create a Master Calendar in SharePoint

This is one of our most popular workshops. Out-of-the-box SharePoint does not provide a Master Calendar solutions, or the ability to rollup multiple calendars into a single view. In this live online workshop, we look at it from a different angle. We create a Master Calendar Solution that can be filtered by Content Types to create sub-calendar views that can be accessed from other sites.

This solution is not limited to sites within a site collection. It can actually cross site collection boundries, as well as display content from external sites. Read more…

SharePoint Charts and Graphs: Part 02 (Sparklines)

With the announcement that SharePoint 2010 will include Sparkline for creating charts and graphs, the solutions provided in this workshop will give you a two to three year jump start, incorporating Sparklines into current WSS and MOSS sites.

The data used to drive the charts will come from SharePoint lists, libraries, RSS feeds and web services. Don’t store your charts and graphs in Excel where noone can see them… expose them in the web browser through SharePoint!

You won’t have to purchase any third party web parts to implement these solutions. Everything will be available out of the box or available for free as part of the resources for the workshop. Read more…

The Live Online Workshop Guarantee

I realize it is hard to purchase a workshop online without knowing me or having experience with how live online training works, so here’s my guarantee:

If, after taking the workshop, you decide the solution isn’t what you are looking for, I will personally refund your entire registration fee and you get to keep all the resources from the project.

If you’re not happy, I’m not happy. I want you to be completely satisified with the workshop and the resources. My main form of marketing is word of mouth, with workshop participants as my evangelists. I want you as one of those evangelists, and I’ll do what’s necessary to make things right.

I appreciate your trust and support and look forward to seeing you at the sessions.

Mark Miller
Founder and Editor
EndUserSharePoint.com