sharepoint: feedreader and flash web part on moss 2007

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sharepoint: feedreader and flash web part on moss 2007

posted @ Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:01 PM | 6 Comments

over the past few weeks i've been getting a few requests for if my web parts work on sharepoint 2007 (also referred to as moss). well to be honest, time has been getting the better of me and i hadn't had a chance to test.

well tonight i fired up a windows sharepoint services 2007 instance and loaded the web parts AS IS to see what they did

after that i loaded them up. here's the flash web part in action:

and here's the feedreader in action:

they rendered without issue for me. there is something funkadelic in the upper left corner that i didn't bother to investigate (i'm sure a weird image reference).

as a reminder, the feedreader does not work well at all with proxy servers requiring authentication...and the recommended configuration for proxies anyway is to use the sharepoint web.config defaultProxy settings.

tags: sharepoint, moss, moss 2007, feedreader, flash movie web part, timheuer, smilinggoat, web part

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Maurice Prather

2/18/2007 9:09 AM | # re: sharepoint: feedreader and flash web part on moss 2007

The image artificact is due to the fact that you are referencing an unused/unsupported property in your DWP - PartImageSall.

In v2, the value for PartImageSmall was never pushed to the page. In effect, it was a propety that WSS created but never utilized and was duely notied in the documentation.

In v3, ASP.NET's web part framework also contains the property and the they include the value as part of the title.

However, the PartImageSmall property is still technically unsupported and the documentation effectively remains unchanged between v2 and v3.

Solution: Remove the PartImageSmall property from the DWP.

Hope that helps...
-Maurice
MarkN

4/3/2007 3:33 AM | # re: sharepoint: feedreader and flash web part on moss 2007

I've installed the WP fine, but I'm getting an error on any URL feed:
Error returned from FeedReader: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index:mscorlib

What do I need to do to put this right?

Regards

MarkN
Neesha

10/9/2008 7:24 AM | # re: sharepoint: feedreader and flash web part on moss 2007

Hi,

I have uploaded a newssticker kind of a program using desinger on my sharepoint website. I have flash file, pictures and an xml file in place for it to work. Now, the problem is I need the end user to edit the xml file to add pictures, every week and I dont him to use the designer to edit this XML. I created a doc lib and copied the flash file,the xml file, and pictures. However for some reason, my flash program is reading data from the root xml in the designer but not from the doc lib.I need a way to upload the xml file on my sharepoint, so that end user will update the xml file when needed and will not go into the desinger to do that.

Thank you for your help in advance
Jeremy

6/29/2009 7:15 PM | # re: sharepoint: feedreader and flash web part on moss 2007

Ok,

So im back in the Sharepoint scene again... and this seems to be the EXACT thing I'm looking to try... but where / how can I download your dwp file to test.
I'm running a hosted MOSS account and looking to test it out!

Thanks for your help.
robert

8/12/2009 6:58 AM | # re: sharepoint: feedreader and flash web part on moss 2007

Tim,
Does this feedreader work in SP 2007?. I get unknown error when adding an XML feed with no proxy defined.??
timheuer

8/12/2009 11:01 AM | # re: sharepoint: feedreader and flash web part on moss 2007

Robert -- It does...make sure you installed it using the global option as that is required. Feel free to leave the Feed URL (Only RSS and Atom are supported) if it is public. There are some issues with using the internal Sharepoint feeds though.