Using Web Parts

To insert and delete Web Parts in a SharePoint site, you must have either the Add/Remove Personal Web Parts permission or the Add and Customize Pages permission. By default, at least one of these permissions is granted to members of the Designer, Hierarchy Managers, and Home Owner site groups. If you are unable to insert or delete a Web Part or Web Part zone, contact your server administrator. If you add a Web Part in Personal view, remember that no one else will see the modifications that you have made.

Adding a Web Part to a Web Part page

You can quickly add content to a Web Part page by adding one or more Web Parts to a Web Part zone.

Note

Users viewing Web Parts in the browser can customize only those located in a Web Part zone.

Using Web Part zones has several advantages including:

  • Easy customization in the browser: The content on the page can easily be changed by anyone comfortable working in a browser.

  • Grouping and arranging: Using Web Part zones gives you greater control over how your Web Parts are arranged on the page. Also, when you include multiple Web Parts in a single Web Part zone, you can either stack them vertically within the zone or arrange them side by side horizontally.

  • Format and appearance: One of the properties that you can control for all Web Parts in a single Web Part zone is whether they display a title bar only, both a title bar and a border, or neither.

  • Customized access: For each Web Part zone, you can control whether users are allowed ...

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