Next week we’ve got a full schedule of EUSP Live Online Workshops. If you haven’t tried one of these before, our format is pretty simple:

Earlier this month, Christophe Humbert led a live online workshop on how to create miniature inline charts and graphs with Sparklines and jQuery.

Christophe Humber from Path to SharePoint continues to work on SharePoint interface enhancements. In next week’s live online workshop, SharePoint Charts and Graphs Part 03, he’ll deconstruct Gantt Views and enhance them with color coding and sliders.
The three solutions he provides in the workshop are critical pieces missing from the default Gantt Views: the ability [...]

If you can make immediate use of charts and graphs in your SharePoint site, would it be worth two hours of your time to find out how to do it, no code required? I thought so. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at 1:00pm EST for SharePoint Charts and Graphs: Part 02 (Sparklines).

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.

I’m teaching on site all this week, so I’m trying to get a handle on who’s doing what when I come home each evening. Here’s the list of events I’ve got for this week. Please add more to the comments section and I’ll update each evening as they come in.

Paul Grenier and I are putting the finishing touches on tomorrow’s SharePoint Charts and Graphs without Excel Services live online workshop. I’m showing a teaser image here so you can see the type of dynamic charts that can be achieved in WSS without recourse to 3rd party web parts or Excel Services. Notice there is more than one chart on the page…

In this three minute screencast, I show how data from a simple SharePoint list can pulled into a Content Editor Web Part to dynamically generate a bar chart. The code for the solution is below the screencast.

The script below, combined with such a list view, will plot a Google Chart showing those totals dynamically. The chart scale is automatically adjusted with the maximum value to be charted so it fits the designated size in the script. Once implemented, you can hide the list view web part so only the chart will render on the page. You can also play around with chart parameters within the script, to change chart type, style, size, colors or even build more complex charts. Take a look at the Google Chart API page for reference.

When i first saw this solution, my jaw dropped! Could this actually be a viable alternative for WSS users who don’t have Excel Services? You be the judge… please give Claudio some feedback on how you will use his solution.