Codeplex: SmartTools for Sharepoint

Jan Tielens has announced the SmartTools for Sharepoint that can be downloaded in Codeplex.

“The SmartTools for SharePoint project is a collection of SharePoint extensions to make your life as a SharePoint user, developer or administrator a little bit easier!”

Tools available from the SmartTools:

• What’s New: a customizable web part that can display a list of recently added or changed items of a SharePoint site or site collection

• Autocomplete Text Field: a field that allows users to pick items from a list by making use of an AJAX autocomplete text box. See the Autocomplete Text Field in action: screencast

• Enhanced Site Actions: adds extra menu items the the default Site Actions menu, for easy access to commonly used functions

• Copy Paste: adds copy and paste functionality to Document Libraries

• jQuery: integrates the jQuery JavaScript library with SharePoint 2007

• TableRow Highlight: uses jQuery to highlight table rows when the mouse pointer is hovering above them

• Dock Navigation: adds an overlay to every page of a site to allow users to navigate to the Lists and Document Libraries of that site

• Charts: show animated Silverlight charts, based on data stored in SharePoint lists and document libraries

You can find these tools here.