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SharePoint 2007 Project Dashboards with Corasworks Web Parts

These very exciting enterprise dashboard screenshots are just in from a Dashboard Spy reader who is interested in using Microsoft Sharepoint for project management and team collaboration. He attended a presentation from Corasworks, a provider of advanced webparts used to extend native Sharepoint. He was shown a series of project management dashboards in Sharepoint and Corasworks that he found very interesting.

This first enterprise dashboard screenshot shows your task view. Note that the use of the Corasworks webparts allows this Sharepoint application to look not like sharepoint at all. Note the navigation bar on the top, the tabs in the middle and the navigation list at the left. The middle section shows your tasks rolled up from 2 projects (2 different sharepoint lists) and filtered by user (you).

Corasworks Microsoft Sharepoint Project Dashboard

Let’s take a look behind the scenes a little. Here is how to configure the navigation bar at the top. It’s all through web part configuration:

Project Dashboard Nav menus

Editing this particular link brings you this interface:

Speaking of navigation, note the cascading nature of the tabs:

Business Dashboard Navigation

The native look and feel of Sharepoint out-of-the-box webparts can look totally different. Here is a list. Note that you can take action right from the dashboard view. You can hit Add Item or even launch custom actions.

Project control dashboard

If you want to act on a list item, you can do it right from the project dashboard with a popup utility such as this one for emailing a team member:

corasworks actions dashboard

PMO Collaboration

These webparts can also give you the ability to customize the look and feel with conditional visual indicators such as this list of projects grouped by status. This is powerful functionality without any custom coding. All this is done via configuration of sharepoint webparts from the webpart gallery.

Sharepoint dashboard project status

Sharepoint 2007 has been released to Microsoft partners. It is significantly different from Sharepoint 2003. Take a look at these books on Sharepoint 2007.

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2 Responses to “SharePoint 2007 Project Dashboards with Corasworks Web Parts”

Troyson Said on April 9th, 2007 at 6:39 am quote
Hi,

Where can one get a trial version of the SharePoint 2007 Project Dashboards with Corasworks Web Part

thnx

troy
admin Said on December 7th, 2007 at 9:47 pm quote
You can contact Corasworks for a demo.

Last Modified: Friday, December 7th, 2007 @ 21:46

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