The SharePoint Project Timer web part is a powerful and flexible digital countdown timer that helps remind you of important, upcoming milestones and deadlines. It displays as a digital clock that shows you the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds remaining until the target end-date and end-time, making it a versatile tool to keep track of time for long-term project planning.

The SharePoint Project Timer also includes a complete suite of adjustable visual settings, including choices between 5 different pre-designed themes, the ability to create new themes, and the capacity to upload images to set as the timer background. The fully-modifiable countdown configuration settings offer further flexibility, from changing number-style settings to controlling whether the countdown includes seconds. And, once chosen, your target date & time are remembered automatically, so even if you close the web part and later reposition it on your web page, the proper countdown time will still be displayed.

SharePoint Project Timer is a SharePoint project time management web part to help you keep track of your deadlines. It allows you to set a countdown to the target date, and will then display a clock on your screen counting down to that specific date. It is very useful in project management environments, or to have tasks more structured and finished on time.

To use SharePoint Project Timer please add it to the SharePoint site you want to use it on. Please see the screenshots below for reference:

After clicking Add a new window will open with the SharePoint Project Timer Web Part. Please click on Modify Shared Web Part or on open the tool pane to change the web part settings.

After that, the edit web part window will be displayed.

In the edit web part window, 2 boxes for text editing are displayed. One is the standard input, displaying the title above the remaining time area. The second one is the message once the countdown end-date has been reached. Both text boxes support Rich-Text text editing features. Below the text editing boxes you find a preview of the current style of the Project Timer web part.

On the right you find the Project Timer web part configuration box, divided into a Countdown Configuration, Appearance, Layout, and Advanced section.

The Appearance, Layout, and Advanced sections of the SharePoint Project Timer configuration box are added by default settings in SharePoint. If you need assistance using these sections, please refer to the SharePoint Help.

In its Countdown Configuration section you can modify general settings, like the countdown end-date and time, the Display Options, and the Style of the web part. It also shows the link to the license management for the product.

The Display options let you choose between 3 options:

• To display Days only;
• To display Days, Hours, and Minutes;
• To display Days, Hours, Minutes, and Seconds.

SharePoint Project Timer gives the user the option to choose from 5 preset styles, and one option to customize the style yourself. Customizing the style allows you to upload different styles of digits into the web part as well as selecting the background color for the time area and the text area of the web part.

To customize the numbers you have to enter a valid image path into the Image Path Location field. There are 2 possible options; either specify an URL inside SharePoint, or specify a folder on your hard disk.

Upload pictures into SharePoint and copy the URL of the containing folder. Paste the URL into the Image Location Path field.

Or, for a folder on your hard disk, please follow this path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\ TEMPLATE\IMAGES\Brandysoft.SharePoint.CountdownTimer", add a new folder there and insert the pictures into this folder. After that, please paste this path:" /_layouts/images/Brandysoft.SharePoint.CountdownTimer/New Folder" into the Image Location Path field.

The valid file types for the pictures are .gif, .jpg, and .png. Please be aware that the files have to be named exactly as the number they are representing, so from 0 to 9 (e.g. 0.jpg, 1.jpg...)

To change the preview, please click Apply and the web part edit window will change according to the changes you made. On exiting the Edit mode Project Timer will be displayed on the site according to your settings.

When the countdown end-time has passed, the message displayed will change to the expiration message.

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System Requirements

Operating System:	Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x86/x64 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x86/x64
Server:	SharePoint Release: - Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Microsoft .NETs Framework 2.0 or 3.0 Note: This product is not compatible with SPS 2003 and WSS v2
Browser:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or greater is recommended for Advanced Administration features

Release Notes

1.1.108.0 Jan 13rd, 2010	Licensing module upgraded.
1.0.820.0 Aug 21st, 2009	Licensing module upgraded.
1.0.703.1 Jul 3rd, 2009	Initial Release

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