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People have liked the Organization Browser web part so much that they want the web part to be added to their companies main Portal web application. I too recently came across this interesting situation, wherein we were supposed to show the My Site Organization Browser web part inside our publishing site. It was a task that according to me was very small. Just add the Organization Browser web part from the Social Collaboration group (as shown in the figure below) in the webpage and you are sorted. I started working on it. As mentioned, I just added the web part from the Social Collaboration group, and whoa!!!.. I was done. Wait......there was something wrong. The Silverlight web part did not show anything inside it. There was no rendering done. I tried to do a lot of tweaking, but to avail no success : ( I started searching for the solution over the internet, and noticed that I was not the only one facing the problem. Instead there were many with the same problem. Finally I got s...

Out Of Box ( OOB ) Webparts These are the basic in-built components in SharePoint for displaying and managing list data without the need of any custom development. Not all of them will be available depending upon the version of SharePoint installed. List of OOB Webparts in SharePoint 2010 Following is the list of OOB webparts in SharePoint 2010 along with the category. List and Libraries Announcements – Use this list to track upcoming events, status updates or other team news Calendar – Use the Calendar list to keep informed of upcoming meetings, deadlines, and other important events Links - Use the Links list for links to Web pages that your team members will find interesting or useful Shared Documents – Share a document with the team by adding it to this document library Site Assets – Use this library to store files which are included on pages within this site, such as images on Wiki pages. Site Pages – Use this library to create and store pages on this...

One of the new additions to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2010 platform is the Chart Web Part (CWP), which allows you to create static and dynamic charts for your site without a line a code. One of the complaints from MOSS 2007 was that users wanted to be able to drop a chart onto their site to create dashboard or display information from Excel documents, or provide metrics to other users in a graphical way. So now that the Chart Web Part is available, let see how we can use it. To drop a Chart Web Part on your page, go to Site Actions > Edit Page. From there, click "Insert" from the Editing Tools menu. The "Chart Web Part" is available under the "Business Data" category, then you can click on the CWP option and add to a content area. Once added to the page, you will see "Data & Appearance" and "Advance Properties" options. There are a couple of ways you can go once you click the "Data & Appeara...