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Project Description

The SmartTools for SharePoint project is a collection of SharePoint extensions to make your life as a SharePoint user, developer or administrator a little bit easier!

Available extensions:
  • What's New: a customizable web part that can display a list of recently added or changed items of a SharePoint site or site collection
  • Autocomplete Text Field: a field that allows users to pick items from a list by making use of an AJAX autocomplete text box. See the Autocomplete Text Field in action: screencast
  • Enhanced Site Actions: adds extra menu items the the default Site Actions menu, for easy access to commonly used functions
  • Copy Paste: adds copy and paste functionality to Document Libraries

What's New Web Part screenshot:

WhatsNew0.jpg

Autocomplete Text Field screenshot:

AutoComplete2.jpg

Enhanced Site Actions screenshot:

EnhancedSiteActions1.jpg

Copy Paste screenshot:

CopyPaste1.jpg
Last edited Jun 14 at 8:46 AM  by JanTielens, version 17
Comments
TobiasZimmergren wrote  May 8 at 5:25 AM  
Looking good Jan, especially like the autocomplete idea.
Cheers

pfeilchris wrote  May 9 at 11:47 AM  
Hello Jan, great tools, looking very great, but it seems that I can not mange to get them running. I tried it on 3 differet systems, but always, it does not seem to work, even if the solutions is installed and deloyed. For example the "whats new" web part is not available in the dialog. No iisreset or reboot does help. Do you have a hint for me? Thanks Chris
Details from the central admin:
Name: smarttools.whatsnew.wsp
Type: Core Solution
Contains Web Application Resource: Yes
Contains Global Assembly: Yes
Contains Code Access Security Policy: No
Deployment Server Type: Front-end Web server
Deployment Status: Deployed
Deployed To: http://gpcgwss/; http://gpcgwss:42670/
Last Operation Result: The solution was successfully deployed.
Last Operation Details: GPCGWSS : http://gpcgwss:42670/ : The solution was successfully deployed.
GPCGWSS : http://gpcgwss/ : The solution was successfully deployed.

Last Operation Time: 5/9/2008 11:14 AM

JoyceMR wrote  May 13 at 2:04 AM  
Jan, I had successfully installed and used What's New 1.0, but ran into the problem with the links display. Happy to see you did an update, so I tried to install it (even tried uninstall, IISReset, install). Unfortunately I keep getting the "unable to import" error message when trying to add the webpart. I can't see where the problem is, so your help would be greately appreciated. Thanks!

pfeilchris wrote  May 14 at 10:26 AM  
Hello again, yes irt wa smy fault, I did not know, thet I had to activate the smart tools within the site features. Now I could see them, but I got also a problem with the what's new web part. After adding it to the site, it runs in an internal server error. The enhanced site actions seem to work fine.
Maybe the Whats new... should be checked again. Thanks Chris

zoomba wrote  May 19 at 3:06 PM  
I have a need to dispaly What's New results in a summary fashion. Is it possible to download the source code for this project? Thanks.

chanthy wrote  May 27 at 5:53 PM  
I can't seem to get the "List of content types" to work correctly with the What's New web part. Everytime I try to add another content type I get the message "There are no items to show in this view." I am using the ; symbol, but it doesn't seem to work. Can anyone help?

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