Her request led to creation of the Forms Portal, a SharePoint site designed to replace the Excel spreadsheet and facilitate access to its valuable data to the whole company.

We’re going to create a solution for helping her and her seven year old brother organize their books and be able to quickly determine which ones each of them have read. She also wants to build a parade display of the various Clifford images she has created.

This is a quick sketch of how to setup diversified dashboards for different levels of users by creating a Dashboards document library, holding multiple web part pages.

The ‘Create a SharePoint Scripting Resource Center’ session Christophe Humbert and I delivered at SPTechCon yesterday was a fun session. The recording of our session is available for download if you are interested in watching.

I showed how I used my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services to improve data quality by enhancing an out of the box form using the SPRequireUnique, SPDisplayRelatedInfo, and PreSaveAction functions. In this installment, I’ll show you how I created part of the nice dashboard-like page to display the current state of things to each Project Manager using Data View Web Parts (DVWPs).

Paul has come down with a bad case of the flu, so we’re rescheduling today’s live online SharePoint Charts and Graphs Workshop. It will now run next Wednesday, November 18, 2009, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.

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.

This is yet another blog post on comparing dates in XSL in a data view web part.

During my presentation on “Charts and Graphs in WSS” at SharePoint Saturday this weekend, I turned on Camtasia and recorded the hour long presentation. Instead of embedding it the way I normally do, I’m making it available for download since it’s over 40 megs. Right click the link and choose “Save target as…”. This will place the recording on your harddrive so you can listen at your convenience.

SharePoint is really a collection of capabilities. At its heart, it is a Portal that exposes information customized for a particular user. It has extended functionality to quickly build features inside this portal to enable Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Search. It has ventured into Social Computing and Collaboration by creating shared work spaces, supporting blogs and wikis and allowing people search. With the inclusion of PerformancePoint in its licensing, it also becomes a strong Business Intelligence offering, though it will require expanded knowledge of that capability to implement. It starts to break down when pushed to work as a Business Process Management Suite or Application framework.