Gadgets on SharePoint - for real!

Microsoft Gadgets on SharePoint

John Westworth — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:50:57 GMT

I saw this on an internal post and I&rsquo;m glad Lawrence&nbsp;has blogged about it. It&rsquo;s pretty...

re: Gadgets on SharePoint - for real!

Julian C. — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:34:52 GMT

I need to create a webpart that lists ALL webparts on my portal and allows my users to select, checking some checkboxes, whichever webparts they want to have on the homepage. It's kind of myGoogle or NetVibe or Start.com style.

I don't really need that fancy AJAX drag-and-drop functionality, but if is not too much trouble it will be welcome...

SharePoint is not that userfriendly, so my users say.

I just want to cut some steps when adding webparts to the page. Edit >> Modify Shared Page >> Browse >> Drag-and-Drop webparts is way too complicated for my users...

I've looking around for some pre-built webparts but it looks like nobody was thinking about this issue...

Is it that hard? Why Microsoft doesn't have this in mind for the next version? USABILITY! This is a word that is missing in Microsoft's vocabulary...unfortunatelly...

Help Please! If I don't find a way out, my company will get rid of SharePoint Portal. I heard rummors they want to move to IBM WebSphere! Please, please, please HELP ME!

julianpop@gmail.com

re: Gadgets on SharePoint - for real!

lliu — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:00:03 GMT

Julian, WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 have a simpler/quicker method of adding one or more Web Parts to a page -- pretty much exactly as you've described. Beta 2 will be available very soon, so I'd encourage you to evaluate them. If you haven't already done so, you can register for Beta 2 at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview.