Welcome to the March 18th Community Update. This is our last "Winter" edition of 2010, which means Spring is just around the corner! CorasWorks is ready to help warm things up with the hot items below. Enjoy!

News and Events

TeamDirection Partnership - We are happy to announce that we have signed a partnership with TeamDirection, maker of the IntelliGantt Add In for Microsoft Project. Through the partnership, we are now able to offer two-way sync capabilities with Microsoft Project through our Project Portfolio Management application.

Community Highlights
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Applications

• Intelligantt Add In for Microsoft Project - This add in allows you to import and sync data from Microsoft Project with the CorasWorks PPM. Click here to learn more or watch this short 5-minute video.
• Collaborative Hubs (by Future Structure) - Check out the set of apps based on the collaborative hub design from Future Structure: Idea Hub, Marketing Campaign Hub, and Proposal Hub. As one customer commented: "This is precisely the way people need to see info regarding an item.Very intuitive!!"
• Business Process Starter Set (by R3 Business Solutions) - This set of 4 business process apps can add some key cross-departmental functionality. Apps include: Time Off Management, Purchase Request Management, Travel Request Management, and Budget Change Request. These apps include Snaplets so end-users can enter their requests and reviewers can review and approve items from any site across SharePoint.

• Intranet-Extranet Integration Webcast - Recording - View this webcast that covers three integration scenarios: Publishing Intranet to Extranet, Interacting between Intranet and Extranet, and Working with Extranet Database via multiple channels - Intranet browser, RSS, and mobile.
• Video of Intranet Community Portal Solution - This 12-minute videos reviews a Community Portal solution for the Intranet.It is a central portal with 3 micro-communities for SharePoint Users, an Idea Community, and Project Users. It uses the Spirit Community Services Suite.

Blogs & Forums

• William's Blog: Intranet-Extranet Integration Solution Webcast - Follow-through - As a follow up to our webcast on Intranet-Extranet Integration, read about how organizations are leveraging their internal and external workforces by using Extranet/Web Sites.
• From the Field: A v10 Did You Know. . .Creating audit trails - Did you know that with Modify Actions you can capture previous column values within any multi-line text field?
• From the Field: A Toolset Did You Know. . .Ride the Cache - Did you know that the Toolset includes a web part called the Business Data Cache Adapter for setting & managing caches of Toolset Provider data?
• From the Field: Refresh Business Data Cache Adapters on Demand - As a follow-up to the Business Data Cache Adapter blog, read how you can refresh the cache on demand. This is a great option when users need the latest and greatest results.
• From the Field: Toolset Providers for Current and Prior Periods - On a recent engagement, we had a number of requirements to display data in a grid and/or chart that compared a current period from the same period one year ago. Read how we addressed those requirements using the Toolset.