Bamboo Cloud Parts

Cloud Parts™ are designed to enhance Microsoft SharePoint by providing components to extend SharePoint functionality from the cloud. Cloud Parts can provide services such as charting, mapping, group calendaring, document conversion and more. For those who are familiar with the concept of SharePoint Web Parts, perhaps the easiest way to think of Cloud Parts is that they are "Web Parts based in the cloud" - but there's really so much more to the Cloud Part story than that...

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SharePoint Organization Chart Web Part

The SharePoint Organization Chart Web Part provides a read-only, top-down, hierarchical view of an organization.  Utilizing Microsoft Silverlight 4 technology, the SharePoint Organization Chart Web Part provides a quick glimpse into a corporation's organizational structure using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 profiles as the data source.  Each user profile is represented by a Business Card that presents MOSS 2007 profile attributes in an easy to read format.  Users can navigate through the management tiers of an organization and optionally print the displayed Organization Chart for future reference.  The SharePoint Organization Chart Web Part also provides users the ability to search MOSS 2007 profiles based on specific profile attributes.  They can then quickly view a selected resulting profile's Business Card and identify the individuals that report to them within the organization.

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Bamboo Content Migration for SharePoint

Bamboo Content Migration for SharePoint is an application that allows users to move content between SharePoint environments. Use the application to migrate content from sites within the same SharePoint Server version. For example, you can migrate content from a SharePoint 2007 environment (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007) to another SharePoint 2007 environment (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007). Or, migrate content from a SharePoint 2010 environment (Server 2010 and Foundation 2010) to another SharePoint 2010 environment (Server 2010 and Foundation 2010). You can migrate content from full site collections or you can migrate specific subsites within a site collection.

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REST API for SharePoint

MashPoint is a set of tools and interfaces designed for the SharePoint developer.  MashPoint is free to download and use.  The MashPoint REST Extension is our latest addition to the MashPoint platform, providing a REST API for SharePoint.  Access any SharePoint resource (e.g. lists, Web Parts, etc.) via REST.  Supports multiple standard representations, including XHTML, ATOM and JSON, as well as vCard and iCalendar.  Please see the following articles for more information on all of the capabilities of Bamboo's REST API for SharePoint:

• Introducing the MashPoint REST API for SharePoint
• Extend SharePoint to the Cloud with the MashPoint REST API for SharePoint
• SharePoint Support for iCalendar with the MashPoint REST API

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Calculating the license costs for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 can be an arcane, complicated, and frustrating exercise.  The best approach is naturally to contact a Microsoft Licensing Specialist.  But if you are still doing some back-of-the-envelope calculations looking at the cost of initial adoption, extending SharePoint to more employees or adding servers to your deployment you may find this new free tool very helpful.  Check out the new SharePoint 2010 Price Calcluator from Bamboo!

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Stock Quote Web Part

Bamboo's Stock Quote is a free Web Part that lets users get quotes, news, and charts for stocks, directly on a SharePoint site. Users can create "watch lists" with their favorite stocks, and administrators can set the defaults and choose which features are enabled.

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Bamboo Happy Birthday Reminder Web Part

Bamboo Happy Birthday Reminder Web Part reads user profile information such as email address, name, and birthday from SharePoint's Active Directory.  When you access a page containing this Web Part, a list of animated images is displayed for the user(s) whose birthday falls in the specified range (displayed by day or week, as configured).  An email is also sent to the birthday boy or girl, wishing them a happy birthday, so you'll never have to worry about sending a belated "happy birthday" card again.

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SharePoint Analyzer 1.5

Release 1.5 of Bamboo SharePoint Analyzer provides a thin-client application that can be installed and run on your desktop machine, and which then accesses the information on your SharePoint server.  The interface to the server is accomplished using our Bamboo MashPoint and REST API extension, so once the SharePoint Analyzer server component has been installed, individual users may then access information on the SharePoint server directly via the SharePoint Analyzer Client on their desktop.

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SharePoint Tag Cloud Web Part

With this first version of the SharePoint Tag Cloud Web Part, you can create a tag cloud -- based on tags YOU set up.  The tags reflected in this display aren't coming from your users, or from content (e.g. lists or libraries) associated with the Web Part.  You will need to manually enter all of the tags that appear in your tag cloud.

Here's an example of what you could do that would be useful.  Let's say that you have a list or library that contains documents or articles related to all of the products offered by your company.  Let's further say that you would like to get a sense of which products are the most popular with your users based on how often they navigate to the supporting documentation.  With this version of the Bamboo Tag Cloud Web Part you could create a tag cloud using the names of your products.  As users click through these tags to the associated documents, the tag cloud will begin to reflect relative interest in the various products by incrementing the font size of the most popular tags.

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PDF Document Parser

The Bamboo PDF Document Parser is a custom document parser for PDF documents and PDF forms. It allows you to import metadata and form data from your PDF form into your SharePoint list and also populate your PDF document with metadata from the List.

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SharePoint Analyzer

SharePoint Analyzer provides the SharePoint administrator with a tool that will quickly discover the configuration details of any SharePoint deployment.  Specifically, SharePoint Analyzer will return the following information:

• The entire farm topology, from Web applications all the way down to individual lists.
• Server information, including patches and updates.
• Information on databases that are being used as part of your SharePoint deployment.
• Solutions and Features that have been deployed, displayed per Web App, Site Collection or Site scope.
• Services and their status.
• Information about Bamboo products that are used in your farm.

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SharePoint Analytic Accelerator

The SharePoint Analytic Accelerator allows organizations to display a wide-range of site usage metrics in a central, accessible location. When compared to SharePoint's out-of-the-box reports, the Bamboo's SharePoint Analytic Accelerator provides end users with a better experience as they use to tool to investigate things like traffic history, page hits, top users, and top pages.

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Calculating the license costs for Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) can be an arcane, complicated and frustrating exercise.  The best approach is naturally to contact a Microsoft Licensing Specialist.  But if you are still doing some back-of-the-envelope calculations looking at the cost of initial adoption, extending SharePoint to more employees or adding servers to your deployment you may find this new free tool very helpful.  Check out the new SharePoint Price Calcluator from Bamboo!

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Silverlight Media Player Web Part 

One of the differentiating capabilities of Bamboo's MashPoint platform vs. the BDC is its support for streaming data.  This simple Silverlight Media Player provides one way to take advantage of this feature.  Connect to a library of audio or video assets (e.g. training videos, product screencasts) and bring them into your SharePoint environment. 

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SharePoint on Vista! 

Have you ever wished you could perform SharePoint development on your Vista work station?  If so, Bamboo Nation grants your wish with our free SharePointOnVista tool.  This tool will allow you to install and run either WSS v3 SP1 or MOSS on the Vista OS (both x86 and x64).  Check out our step-by-step installation guide and download the tool today!

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