This chapter leveraged both the Server and Client OMs along with some community based libraries to create a packaged solution that can provide a Project Management rollup site.
The customizations are grouped as follows:
- Visual Studio 2010:
- Web Part: Used to display both the main project metrics as well as provide a way to view the detailed project status
- Timer job: Used to update the metrics on a scheduled basis
- Feature receiver: Used to register and unregister the timer job
- Browser based configuration:
- Configure People Core Results Web Part: Configured to pull the listing of project managers along with custom XSL to enhance the format of the results
This chapter showed how you can:
- Aggregate content across site collections using both the search subsystem as well as the regular list APIs to query content
- Mix both the server and client code within the same solution in order to build a highly functional and efficient solution, which is critical when pulling content from potentially hundreds of sites
- Use techniques for generating aggregate metrics that can be processed via a scheduled process, in order to increase the speed for rendering the content on demand
The next chapter will address the business need to aggregate a user's tasks from across the entire system or a selection of sites, providing an effective way to surface the tasks and increase the chances that they will be completed in a timely fashion.
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