Using calculated columns to add color coding to your SharePoint lists. There are a variety of ways to add color coding to your SharePoint lists and document libraries, from embedding custom code on your page to creating data view web parts with conditional formatting in SharePoint Designer.
The trick is determining which method works best in your situation. Not sure how to do that? Start with the basics: Understand your business requirements.Build your user adoption strategy. You have to start with your basic business requirements. You also need to know how dynamic your users want their solution to be. Once you have the basic business requirements down, you need to figure out what add-ons and additional features your users are dying to get their hands on. I’ve used a variety of methods for color coding my SharePoint lists and document libraries. Setting up this type of color coding is fast–literally 5 minutes of work per list view you want to customize. Create an Excel Services report by using Dashboard Designer. Published: July 31, 2012 Summary: Learn how to create an Excel Services report by using PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer in SharePoint Server 2013.
Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise By using Dashboard Designer, you can create Excel Services reports for your dashboards. Building Financial Charts with Yahoo Financial Services and NetAdvantage for SharePoint Chart Web Part - Kiril Iliev's blog. Probably, you or your manager is demanding a financial charting capabilities in SharePoint® - substantial amounts of data coming in at real-time, and a wealth of historical data to put everything into context.
You want to track for a specific ticker (represents an acronym of a company or a corporation made up of up to four letters) the stock market historical records, but you also want the flexibility to change that ticker. And how this could be represented in SharePoint? The answer is SharePoint Business Connectivity Services With this post we will demonstrate how to configure a simple WCF service which would retrieve JSON response from Yahoo Financial Services.The financial services will be consumed, as in a similar manner to our IG Finance XAML Application Sample, using a Yahoo Pipe inside the WCF service. Yahoo Pipes What is Yahoo Pipes®?
Ticker Start month Start day Start year End month End day End year The Solution The WCF Service 3. 4. Boil it down to the basics... the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon -Our SharePoint Experience. Sigh, the ribbon.
Those two words manage to give most SharePoint developers and designers the chills. And not necessarily in the good way. While the ribbon provides a lot of cool interactivity and functionality for our end users, you just look at it wrong and stuff can go whacky in your SharePoint site. This is the first post in a series dedicated to working with the ribbon. Let’s start off with reviewing what the ribbon really is and what code bits are involved. What is a part of the ribbon? When you imagine the ribbon, you likely picture this: There are a lot of elements that are grouped with the ribbon that don’t have to be: There are several aspects of the ribbon area and what is grouped around it that goes against well established usability patterns… what people are looking for and expecting when they visit a web site. So, what to do? Open your custom master page and switch to Code View.Open the Find dialog and search for id=”s4-ribbonrow”.
SharePoint Integration with MicroStrategy. Recently, while working on one of my project assignments I got to work on the integration of SharePoint 2010 with MicroStrategy 9.
The requirement was to pull the report from the MicroStrategy and show that in a web part. We had the MicroStrategy environment set up and also I had my SharePoint development environment set up.Here, I will show you how you can configure the SharePoint environment to pull reports from the MicroStrategy. When you contact MicroStrategy for their portlets, which can be plugged with SharePoint, you will get a .CAB file. This CAB file has two web parts in it 1) ‘MicroStrategy Master Web Part’ 2) ‘MicroStrategy Web Part’. This also has MSTRWebParts.dll which, you can use to create a custom web part to display data from MicroStrategy(I will talk about this in other post), and a few .js files. Step 1: Install the CAB file: Log in to the server machine as an Administrator.
Step 3: Enabling HTTP Session State in SharePoint Enable the SessionStateModule: Understanding business intelligence planning solutions and scenarios (SharePoint Server 2010) Published: January 27, 2011 This section of articles contains direction and samples for developing a Business Intelligence (BI) solution with planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities for Finance, HR, and other departments in an organization.
The solution is architected to enable planning functions that include Write-back capabilities to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cubes, SharePoint lists, and relational databases. These articles also demonstrate how the Microsoft platform can be used in developing financial calculations and business rules to link forms and reports data through Microsoft Excel 2010. Workflow and security are also included as functions to enable collaboration in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment. Finally, building and maintaining a centralized data model will be covered as well. Organizations today are under considerable pressure to make informed decisions daily. Centralized data model with SQL Server 2008 R2Analysis Services.