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Quest Web Parts for SharePoint
SharePoint is great platform for developing intranets,
collaborative workspaces and basic document management. Many of
the hard-to-dos have been done very well in SharePoint,
including data security, user authentication, design standards
and re-use through templates & data types, and the
auto-generation of common code. Developers with C# or VB skills
can turn SharePoint into a wide range of application types,
customising and re-skinning as-necessary and integrating with
external systems. There is a rich tool bag of developer
resources in the form of technologies, SDKs, APIs and
supplementary tools to help developers on their way.
However, what
many of our customers want is all of the above, but
without large volumes of bespoke code.
They want to use SharePoint to build reliable line-of-business
systems:
- quickly,
- out of pre-built components,
- without incurring the support costs associated with core
development.
To use the builder's analogy, The want to
build their house from a store of bricks of different sizes
without having to make the bricks first.
This is where the Quest Web Parts for SharePoint come in.
Quest Web Parts add functionality to the standard SharePoint
offering to the extent that, together, SharePoint + Quest Web
Parts can be considered as a development platform for the system
builder. Whereas some web part suppliers have focussed on
solving specific business problems, such as Active Directory
maintenance, SharePoint housekeeping and interacting with
specific packages, the Quest Web Parts provide system builders
with key competencies
that make SharePoint an integrated and flexible system.
These include:
At version 5.0 of the Quest Web Parts for SharePoint, there are
18 web parts, as follows:
| For Display
of SharePoint list-based data: |
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qListView | | Quest
List View web part: Substantial, highly configurable
web-part for displaying data in a tabular format. |
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qChartView | | Quest
Chart View: Comprehensive, configurable chart display of
list data. |
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qSelector | | Quest
Selector: Pull-down list allowing selection from
multi-column lists. Can use to filter other web parts. |
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qMultiSelector | | Quest
Multi-Selector: Bank of selectors. Each selection
filters the next list. Successive refinement of choice. |
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qCalendarView | | Quest
Calendar View: Advanced calendar interface. Multiple
data sources. Highly flexible. |
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qDiscussionView | | Quest
Discussion View: Easy to use UI for discussion lists |
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qItemDisplay | | Quest
Item Display: Holds the last selection from a qListView,
qSelector or qMultiSelector for later use. |
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qExcelViewer | | Quest
Excel Viewer: Facilitates export of tabular data from a
qListView to Excel. |
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| For Adding,
Viewing and Editing List Items: |
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qListForm | | Quest
List Form: Advanced web part to Add, Edit, Display data
items. Model database structures. Invoke custom actions. |
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| Navigation: |
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qCascadingMenu | |
Quest Cascading Menu: very easy to set-up, manage and
use. Multiple data sources. Security aware. |
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qPanelMenu | | Quest
Panel Menu: Side-bar panel cascading menu. |
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qPageRedirector | | Quest
Page Redirector: takes the user to a page depending on
their identity. Excellent for peronalising user
workflow. |
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| For central
control of key texts and URLs: |
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qHelpLink | | Quest
Help Link: Centralise management of links to URLs. Build
custom help systems. Organise all common page
invocation. |
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qCaption | | Quest
Caption: Centralise management of common texts (e.g.
Copyright, data protection, announcements) |
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| For
interaction with external databases: |
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qSILstView | | Quest SI
List View: Tabular display of data located in an
external database. Multiple sources. Web Services and
direct connections. |
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qSIListForm | | Quest SI
List Form: Add, view, edit data item from an external
database. Two-way interaction. Integrate external and
internal (list) data. |
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qSIChartView | | Quest SI
Chart View: Chart display of data located in an external
database. Multiple sources. Web Services and direct
connections. |
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qSISelector | | Quest SI
Selector: Pull-down list taking data from extarnal
databases. Multiple sources. Can use to filter other web
parts. |
Why buy from us? Simple: We
will give you the best deal on the product and you'll be buying
from the company with then best track record using this product
in the UK. What's more, after our expert training, if you
need further help to get going, or just feel it would be cost
effective to outsource, then you'll need to look no further.
What more can we say?
If you would like a copy of our free paper:
Introduction to the Quest Web Parts for SharePoint, complete
our
Request Form and check the Info box for the Quest Web
Parts.
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