Customizing Web Parts

Web Parts are, as discussed earlier, items in the SharePoint Portal Server Document Store with a defined set of properties. This set of properties includes

  • Basic properties that are available with every item in the document store, such as title, description, and date the Web Part was last modified. When the dashboard gets rendered, the values of the Title and Description properties will be used appropriately.

  • Appearance properties, such as height and width of the Web Part.

  • Behavior properties, such as whether or not users have the ability to remove the Web Part from the dashboard, or whether they can minimize the Web Part.

  • Content properties, such as the type of content the Web Part contains and the source from which the Web ...

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