SharePoint Server 2010 ships with a nifty Chart web part that displays visual data from a number of sources – SharePoint lists, BDC, Excel services, etc. It's a handy control and one that was sorely missing from the 2007 version. It provides a number of chart options, including pies, lines, bars, cones, scatters, etc. in both 2D and 3D. Neat…but (and there's always a 'but')…it has one very annoying characteristic that drives site administrators crazy. When you drop it onto the page, it displays a toolbar with links for "Data & Appearance" and "Advanced Properties" to everyone with more than basic read permissions.
We certainly don't want everyone to see that – too much temptation to click on those links and blow up our pretty little graphs. Well, ok, should be easy enough to turn that off, right? Wrong.
Somebody, somewhere, forget to include the ubiquitous hide toolbar switch that's on most other out of the box web parts. While trying to figure out a workaround for this nice little undocumented feature, I came across a lot of links to this blog post by Nick Grattan in which he suggests editing the page in SharePoint Designer and changing the web part properties manually in the markup. That's all well and good but anyone who has ever heard me speak at a conference knows that I am not exactly the world's biggest fan of using SPD to edit pages (that may be understating it a bit, sort of like saying the Pope is a little bit Catholic or Texas gets a bit warm in the summertime). So what to do...
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