Creating a Web Part Page
As you might already know if you have played around in WSS 3.0 or MOSS, there are only a certain number of templates that are available when creating sites for your Site Collections. However, after you have chosen a site template, you might find that you need more space for web parts. Here is a quick demonstration on creating a web part page:
In the top right, go to Site Actions and choose Create from the drop-down.
On the next page, under the section Web Pages, simply click on Web Part Page.
You are almost finished. Enter the name of the web part page you are creating, choose the desired layout, and then decide where you would like this web part page to be saved. Click create.
Now you have created a web part page that can hold more web parts for your Site Collection. Next I will discuss how to attach this page to a site in a site collection you have already created.
Good bye Performance Point, Welcome features
Well, it is indeed official. Microsoft posted their press-release on January 27th 2009 letting us know that Peformance Point will be dropped (still supported, and a new SP coming out soon as well though).
Thankfully it is not all bad, Performance Point was a new product – not widely adopted yet and now they will start shifting the monitoring and analytics capabilities to SharePoint.
Read Microsofts official press-release: Microsoft Brings Business Intelligence to the Masses With SharePoint
Read more …Outlook Calendar Integration with SharePoint
Everyone, especially management, loves to have a universal calendar. Due to SharePoints tight integration with Outlook, this can easily be achieved. Thru SharePoints built in calendars, you can feasibly view calendars in Outlook, click and drag appointments from Personal Calendars, schedule PTO, and many other items needed from a group or department calendar.
Steps on how to create:
Navigate to a specific site where the calendar is located.
When the calendar is displayed, click the Actions dropdown and choose Connect to Outlook.
Click OK to the message to accept this calendar.
Go to the Calendar section of Outlook. Check the box to view the Public SharePoint folder you just added. If you line this up side by side with your personal calendar, you can simply click and drag events from your personal to the public SharePoint calendar.
After you click and drag the appointment to the Public SharePoint folder, Click Yes to the message displayed.
You will now be able to see the event on personal calendar and well as the calendar in SharePoint
If you go back to the calendar on the SharePoint site and click refresh, you should now be able to see the event you just added as well. You can click on the event if you want to see the details.
On the flip-side of things, events can be entered in SharePoint by a manager perhaps. Look at the example where a manager scheduled a meeting in the SharePoint group calendar.
So you dont miss this meeting, you want to make sure that this appointment is in your personal calendar.
Go back to the calendar section in Outlook and make sure the SharePoint calendar is lined up side by side with your personal calendar again. You can click and drag it to your calendar.
OR
You can double click on the appointment you wish to add to your calendar and click Copy to My Calendar.
This is just another example of how easy SharePoint can be. Feel free to post any comments or questions regarding any of our blogs. Thanks!
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