Sunday, April 22, 2012

Fusion Charts for SharePoint 2010

Recently we had a requirement to create highly visual Dashboard in SharePoint to be implemented in very less time.  We used one of the charting tools known as Fusion Charts for the same.  The best part about these charts is they can be used with any version of SharePoint - WSS, MOSS 2007 and all versions on SharePoint 2010. 

The various benefits of the tool are:
  1. It can be used with different data sources - SharePoint lists, Views, CSV, SQL, Excel. 
  2. It is easy to use without any code.
  3. It has an entirely visual interface and charts can be created without any code.
  4. It supports Filtering, Grouping and Drill downs.
  5. The most important thing is the look and feel.  These charts are highly animated and the business users and customers can be wowed by Dashboards built using this tool.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Hide 'Home' link on SharePoint 2010 top menu

In order to hide the 'Home' link on the top menu in SharePoint 2010, please follow the below steps:

1. Open you site master page in SharePoint designer.
2. Locate and delete the below from the master page:
'SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="TopNavigationDataSource"
Id="topNavigationDelegate"'
'Template_Controls'
'/Template_Controls'
'/SharePoint:DelegateControl'

This is required to delete the existing delegate wrapper from the master page.

3. After that change your data source to the below code:

'asp:SiteMapDataSource
ShowStartingNode="False"
SiteMapProvider="CombinedNavSiteMapProvider"
id="topSiteMap"
runat="server"/'

Now you will not see the default home link for the site. You will see only links set up in your navigation.