Virtosoftware announces a new web part for SharePoint – Virto DataGrid

Virtosoftware has released a new Microsoft SharePoint Ajax web part for convenient displaying SharePoint list and SQL items — Virto DataGrid.

New Virto DataGrid web part for Microsoft SharePoint 2007, presented today by Virtosoftware, provides users with a wide range of tools for displaying items SharePoint list and SQL items in a single grid view. With the new easy-to-install and simple-to-use web part users do not need to work with SharePoint Designer to make custom grids anymore.

Virto DataGrid is a ready-to-use Ajax-enabled JavaScript control that displays items from SharePoint lists (from a site or a site collection) or SQL items in a single grid. The web part enables displaying of any field from a list or a table, allowing for flexible ordering, sorting and resizing with drag & drop, supporting sub grids (2-nested level) and SharePoint Access Level, that prevents users with, for instance, “read only” rights for a specific list from editing the list date through the grid.

With the new Virto Ajax-based control SharePoint users get a plenty of interface-related features that make the work with data items effective and convenient. In addition to complex filtering, search as well as default and custom CSS themes you can easily change column order, resize column and the web part width, collapse and expand the grid, display and hide column footers, edit data and add new items with a few clicks.
Virto DataGrid Key Features

— Displaying SharePoint List or SQL Table items across SharePoint site or site collection

— Showing 2-level nested sub grids within the parent grid

— Inline and pop-up cell editing — Column ordering and resizing with a drag & drop

— Ascending, descending and dynamic data sorting

— Deleting and adding new rows

— Summary footer row (automatically calculated sums, averages, counts , min or max)

— Exporting data to MS Excel

— Default and custom CSS themes

— Complex filtering

— Search
The commercial release of Virto DataGrid web part will be available by the end of December. Fortunately, you can already try beta version of the web part at Virto DataGrid Web Part for SharePoint Beta 1.0 [.ZIP] - Web Parts for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007/WSS v.3)