4.3. Working with Web Parts

Now that you know the difference between Personal and Shared versions of a page and you know how to move, remove, and add existing web parts to a page, it's time to start really working with them. To do that, though, you need to understand how web parts are organized. They are generally organized by galleries. There are site collection galleries, server galleries, and the "recycle bin" of galleries, the closed web parts. That gallery contains all the web parts you may have closed from viewing on a web page, but otherwise aren't done with it yet (closed web part galleries are per page). Getting to web part galleries isn't that easy, unfortunately. To use web part galleries, you first need to access the Add Web Parts page by going into Edit mode, then clicking a Add a Web Part bar. Then click the link "Advanced web part gallery and options" located at the bottom of the page. This will open a tool pane with the galleries listed. We will be doing this together later in the chapter.

No Gallery for Online Web Parts The previous version of SharePoint had another gallery for online web parts. That gallery is not available in this version of SharePoint. Although the possibility of using online, dynamically updating web parts is still open, Microsoft is just not going to be responsible for offering them or maintaining a gallery for them, at this point. So if you were wondering where that gallery went, well, now you know.