Eric Harlan Principal Architect Sogeti LLC USA Session Code: OFC311

SharePoint List Mash Up’s About Eric Harlan Lets have FUN! Conversations not Lectures First time in South Africa First Tech Ed SharePoint for 6 years, I.T. for 10 Principal Architect for Sogeti USA Twitter.com

SharePoint List Mashup’s What is a Mash Up? A Mash Up is simply a combination of any of the following: The "S" word aka SharePoint Designer SharePoint out of the box functionality A little bit of code What we'll be mashing up today Lists Web Parts GUI XSL

SharePoint List Mashup’s Creating a list As you know: Creating a list is simple Gives Users the ability to control when/how data is entered Easy to back up and apply to the back up strategy Allows permissions scheme's to be applied ETC..

SharePoint List Mashup’s Web Parts and When Content Query When there is data in SharePoint via lists/items and you want to show that data somewhere else. Content Editor A simple HTML web part that allows you to place html/rich text directly onto a page. Announcements Simply pulling from a list and showing announcements on a page. Data Form Needing to collect data via a form but don’t have Form Services, or F.S. is overkill.

SharePoint List Mashup’s Web Parts and When Data View When you want to connect to different sources internal or external or just display the information differently List View

SharePoint List Mashup’s Data View Web Part Other uses for the Data View WP and Mash up's Post back content (data form) Data Grids Filtered Content display ETC..

SharePoint List Mashup’s Data Sources List Data Sources applicable in SharePoint Designer Other lists XML SQL DB Oracle DB SAP Web Services RSS ODBC

SharePoint List Mashup’s The Challenge The Challenge was to create a rotating/sliding news announcements web part that power users could update and maintain on the fly.

SharePoint List Mashup’s Tentative Steps Created "newsslider" list, added columns, added content, added list as webpart to web part page Open SPD, opened web part page. Convert list view web part to xslt Saved page. (yes customize the page from the definition) Return to browser and refresh web part page. Modify shared web part settings Now you should see an xsl button to change the xsl. Take the list xsl and pulled out the references to the columns and put them into new xsl. Then take the top element from the list xml and add it to yours. Copy the new xsl text into the web part and hit ok.

SharePoint List Mashup’s

SharePoint List Mashup’s MasterPage CSS and JS Reference

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List Mash Up to create a News Slider Eric Harlan Principal Architect Sogeti LLC

SharePoint List Mashup’s Pros & Cons Your data is driven by a single list, in a single sub site Can't use this on other site collections w/o setting up the same procedure again. Customized the site You CAN export the web part to use on the same sub site elsewhere. By doing this you also can set your sige/page back to the default site definition.

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SharePoint List Mash Up’s