Configuring Your Web Part

Configuring your Web Part is how you determine the location of the Web Part within your dashboard, the size of the Web Part within your digital dashboard, and certain cache options, among others. You can also change various properties of a specific Web Part, such as the Web Part name, parameter values, and scheduling.

Configuration changes made to a Web Part are applied only to that specific Web Part.

You can view a template's Web Part options, but you cannot edit them.

The WebParts Options dialog box is an interface for you to modify attributes of Web Parts viewed in Windows SharePoint portal.

To configure a Web Part

  1. Log on to the Web Parts Administrator. How?

  2. In the Web Part Administration dialog box, click the Configure Available WebParts tab.

  3. Select the Web Part you want to configure and click WebParts Properties. The WebParts Options dialog box appears.

  4. Do one or more of the following:

  1. In the Description box, type a brief description of the Web Part. This description will be displayed on the Import Web Parts page within the Digital Dashboard.

  2. Under Position on Page click the icon that represents where you want this Web Part positioned on the dashboard page.

  3. If you have more than one Web Part with the same position on the dashboard page, you can type a number in the Position in Column box to specify the order you want the Web Parts displayed. For example, Web Part A and Web Part B both occupy the center of the dashboard page. If you type 1 in the Position in Column box for Web Part A and you type 2 in the Position in Column for Web Part B, Web Part A will be on top of Web Part B in the dashboard page.

  4. Select or clear Display this Web Part in a frame. If you clear this option, the Web Part will not have a border around it and will not have a title bar. Without the title bar, you can not customize your Web Part.

  5. Under Default State, click either the Expanded or Minimized button. This will determine whether the Web Part is minimized or expanded when the dashboard page is opened.

  6. Select or clear Allow users to remove this Web Part from their dashboard. If you clear this option, users will not be able to delete this Web Part from the dashboard page.

  7. Under Should this Web Part be cached,

    Select ...

    To ...

    No

    Re-fire the stored procedure each time the Web Part is loaded into the dashboard. The Web Part will not be cached and the contents will be updated.

    Yes

    Enable the Cache Options.

    Cache Options

    Description

    Style

    All Users: Share the cached output with all users.

    Per User: Cache the output for each individual user.

    Seconds

    Type the number of seconds before the dashboard automatically refreshes the Web Part content.

  8. Select Provide help for this Web Part through the following link if you want to link to a help file for this Web Part. If you select this option, type the help file's URL or full path in the box. The Web Part will have a Help icon in the title bar that, when clicked, will open the help file.

  9. Click Update to save your changes.

  10. Click Close to close the dialog box.

See Also

Creating your Web Part

Editing default parameter values

Scheduling your Web Part

Viewing statistics