Special Edition Using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server By Robert Ferguson
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Chapter 14. Customizing Dashboards
SharePoint Portal Server delivers a great, out-of-the-box starting point for building a portal that can easy be extended without the need to code. Instead, the customization pages provided through the portal interface enable you to tune your dashboard to your requirements, such that your portal becomes effective for your users. Web Parts, one of the core components of the Digital Dashboard architecture, are reusable and can be made available from your own IT department, your supplier of collaborative solutions, or from Microsoft. Check the Microsoft Web Part Gallery and the SharePoint Portal Server Resource Kit. Additionally, you can create Web Parts yourself ”directly from Office XP applications if you like. And on the other side of the spectrum, there is Microsoft Office XP Developer ”a tool to create and maintain dashboards and Web Parts for professional developers.
