Mar26

LCWP - Cross Site Collection roll up

Categories: SharePoint

Very pleased to announce a new web part today, the Lightning Conductor Web Part. Brett is to blame for the name, but it's quite catchy once you get used to it! :-)

We're always getting asked on consultancy and training gigs about the limitations of the Content by Query Web Part and its limitations in that it can only roll up content within the same site collection. Well we've decided to do something about it! The LCWP can aggregate your content from sites within the same site collection, but also sites across site collections!

Obviously another limitation of the Content by Query Web Part is that it is only available for MOSS 2007, but with the Lightning Conductor Web Part you can get list and library aggregation for WSS 3.0 as well.

For more details, a screencast, and a trial download check out this link:

http://www.lightningtools.com/pages/lightning-conductor-web-part.aspx

 
Mar25

BDC Meta Man - important update

Categories: SharePoint

We've just released version 3.0.0.3 of BDC Meta Man. This release is important if you are running Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 or a 64 bit OS.

The tool we were using to obfuscate our code stopped BDC Meta Man from working on these operating systems. We now have the situation sorted, so if you are on any of the above make sure you get the latest version from our downloads page:

http://www.lightningtools.com/pages/service/customerdownloads.aspx

I'm loving Windows Server 2008 by the way, very cool.

We've also got a few other updates in this version of BDC Meta Man I'll point out to you over the next few days!

 
Mar25

SUGUK meeting on Thursday

Categories: SharePoint

On Thursday we've got our next SUGUK meeting in Basingstoke. ICS are kindly hosting and providing refreshments, with the meeting kicking off at 6:30pm sharp. We'll be having presentations on:

Architecting a Highly Available MOSS Farm

Governance: Protecting your SharePoint Investment

Introducing Silverlight and SharePoint

Still a few places left so if you want to come post your full name here:

http://suguk.org/forums/thread/8918.aspx

See you Thursday!

 
Mar10

Formatting the BDC List Web Part with SharePoint Designer

Categories: SharePoint

So you are using the BDC List Web Part to display your Line of Business data, but you want to customize the look and feel of the web part. Sure you can use XSLt if that's your thing - but if you have access to SharePoint Designer spin that up and change the look and feel with the UI. Brett's written a nice free white paper (registration required) to get you all started:

Formatting the BDC List Web Part with SPD - Free White Paper