MashPoint was the first product we released via Bamboo Labs. With its official release, MashPoint is now available as a free download in our storefront, but Bamboo Labs remains the place to visit to see the latest cutting edge products and technologies from Bamboo. You may download and use these products for free. We urge you to provide feedback. Tell us what you like, what you don't like, what works and what doesn't. Suggest new features and capabilities. This is your chance to help ensure that Bamboo is building products and services that best meet your needs.
We are already working on the list of features below for the next version of MashPoint, but we want to hear your feedback and accomodate your feature requests as well. Please visit the MashPoint Forum and tell us what you think.
An Ongoing Effort - Enable More Bamboo Web Parts to Consume Data Via MashPoint
For the initial beta release of MashPoint, we enabled three of the most obvious and most useful Bamboo Web Parts, Data-Viewer, Virtual Map View and our hot new Silverlight media player. Coming soon we will provide MashPoint enabled versions of the Bamboo Chart Plus Web Part, Calendar Plus Web Part and Mini-Calendar Web Part. Ultimately all Bamboo Web Parts will be firmly grounded on the MashPoint platform. In the meantime, your feedback will definitely help us prioritize the retro-fit efforts.
And again, the impetus for developing MashPoint was our desire to enable connections and interactions between Web Parts. For example, data from a Bamboo Cross List will be available to be consumed by the Calendar Plus Web Part. The possibilities are endless, and our prioritization of data integration efforts will be strongly influenced by community input.
MashPoint Beta II - Released August 6th, 2008
Key Features
- Provide the ability to update external data sources. This will be implemented using the "Action" method and will allow developers to write custom actions.
- Single Sign-On - Enable automatic authentication to legacy data system within the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) environment.
- The MashPoint Business Data Column provides the ability to create a custom column in any SharePoint List to access and display LOB data.
- Enhanced Security Support
MashPoint Beta III - Target Release Date: September 1st, 2008
- Full 1:1 mapping of the BDC API, except User Profile support (R1.0)
MashPoint Version 1.0 - Target Release Date: November 1st, 2008
- Provide a relationship between entities that allows you to map the same entities between various systems. For example, you can specify that a record from the Sales Accounting system is the same entity as another record from the HR system.
- Provide integration with user profiles between MOSS User Profile, Active Directory, Lists, Exchange Groups to facilitate and automated social grouping discovery. Point forum
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Jun 03 2008, 04:31 PM
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Steve Gaitten