Jul17Written by: Bruce Dishongh
7/17/2009 9:55 AM 
One of the newest features of our
What's New Web Part is what we call "Extended Columns". These extended columns are a collection of the most popular Content Type specific columns used throughout the default List definitions in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. By utilizing these extended columns you may now configure the
What’s New Web Part to display Content Types with columns that give your users a more complete view of those List items that are being created and changed. Knowing that 5 new Tasks were created by George this morning becomes more meaningful if you also know the
Start Date,
Due Date,
Status,
% Complete, and which employee George assigned to the Task. With our new "Extended Columns", you now have over 42 columns from which to choose when configuring our
What’s New Web Part. The following screen-shots are a few examples of these extended columns in action.
Configured with
Task specific extended columns.
Configured with
Document specific extended columns.
Configured with
Contact specific extended columns. Other
Contact columns we did not have room to display include
Job Title and
Fax Number.
As you can see our
What's New Web Part has some rather unique functionality not available in other so called "What's New" web part products. These 3 examples do not include all of our new extended columns choices. Please see our
What's New Web Part product page for more information on "Extended Columns" and all of this web parts unique capabilities.
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Web Part3 comment(s) so far...
I did not know right away that you could use it in this manner. I saw some of the screenshots, but this helps. Thanks.
By Arry on
7/17/2009 7:06 PM
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The first screenshot shows Tasks from several sites. I thought this web part only shows stuff that is new...how does it just show Tasks?
By davidlk on
8/6/2009 6:26 PM
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davidlk,
First and foremost...the web part does find new or changed content...depending on configuration. However, you do have very fine grained control over which content is displayed. As for the Task example...select the Entire Site Collection as a search scope, choose only the Task Content Type and then add the extended columns that are specific to Tasks and you will have created the same view. Keep in mind that the List items displayed will only be those that meet the Item Age Limit requirement, or those that meet the total records to display requirement....depending on configured settings.
By Bruce Dishongh on
8/6/2009 6:35 PM
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