Mapping Mashups in SharePoint Designer

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Mapping Mashups in SharePoint

Designer

Tom Resing

Senior Software Engineer

MicroLink, LLC


INTRODUCTION

Mapping Mashups in SharePoint Designer

Tom Resing


About Tom

Microsoft Certified

Technology Specialist

• MOSS Configuration

• WSS Configuration

• MOSS Application

Development

• WSS Application

Development

12 Years of Technical

Experience

• Public Sector and

Private Sector

• Web Focused


About MicroLink

Microsoft Gold Partner

• Main Office in Vienna, Virginia

Microsoft’s Federal Partner of the Year for 2007

Microsoft’s DoD Partner of the Year for 2007

and 2006


Agenda

Overview

SharePoint Designer Techniques

Demonstration of Mapping List Items


OVERVIEW


Mashups

a mashup is a

web application

that combines

data from more

than one source

into a single

integrated tool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application


Example – HousingMaps.com

http://housingmaps.com/


Example 2 - AlertMap

http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?lang=eng


Mashups and SharePoint

Data View Web Part

• Formats data from any data source for display in

SharePoint

• Lists on other SharePoint Sites, RSS Feeds, Web

Services or even your own Database Servers

Business Data Catalog

• Allows for single sign-on access to data sources

• More configuration required, but with that comes

added flexibility

Excel Services and Reporting Services


SHAREPOINT DESIGNER

TECHNIQUES


Why SharePoint Designer?

Anyone can use it

Rapid Prototyping

Data View Web Part – Swiss Army Knife

Reduces the Complexity of the Solution


2 Keys to Designer Mashups

1. A web service

• RSS Feeds – estimated at least 1.2 million in 2005

• API – Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay all

provide Web Service APIs

2. The Data View Web Part

• XSLT Processor

• “Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations

(XSLT) is an XML-based language used for the

transformation of XML documents into other XML or

"human-readable" documents.” – Wikipedia.org

http://blog.ask.com/2005/07/what_feeds_matt.html


Demo

How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a

SharePoint List

• http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/20

07/06/15/how-to-integrate-virtual-earth-maps-with-a-

sharepoint-list.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/06/15/how-to-integrate-virtual-earth-maps-with-a-sharepoint-list.aspx





















DEMONSTRATION OF

MAPPING LIST ITEMS


Google Maps API

Key Required

• http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/


Demo 2


Offline Mapping

Google Earth Enterprise

• 2D and 3D mapping inside the firewall

• Good solution for limited connectivity or confidential

information

VEXCEL Virtual Earth Appliance

• More recent competitive offering from a Microsoft

Subsidiary

• http://www.vexcel.com


Questions

Email me at [email protected]

Twitter: @resing

Tom Resing’s SharePoint Blog

• http://blogs.microlinkllc.com/tresing

mailto:[email protected]

http://twitter.com/resing

http://twitter.com/resing

http://blogs.microlinkllc.com/tresing


Resources

Tom Resing’s SharePoint Blog

• http://blogs.microlinkllc.com/tresing

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

• http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner

ProgrammableWeb Mapping Section

• http://www.programmableweb.com/mapping

Mike Williams' Google Maps API Tutorial

• http://econym.googlepages.com/

http://blogs.microlinkllc.com/tresing

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner

http://www.programmableweb.com/mapping

http://econym.googlepages.com/

http://econym.googlepages.com/


BACKUP SLIDES

