Screen Shots and Screen Casts
Welcome to the gallery of Lightning Tools Web Parts and Tools. The screen casts available are listed down the right-hand column.
Please click on an image to view it at a much larger size.
BDC Meta Man
BDC Meta Man can create BDC entities for you just by dragging and dropping a database table onto the design surface.
You can have BDC associations to create one -> many relationships. With BDC Meta Man you can easily create these by dragging and dropping between entities.
To edit any Entity on the design surface simply right click on it and choose 'Edit' from the menu.
Once in the Entity Admin screen you can edit the entity to create new methods, add actions, and create web parts to write back to your data source.
Please click here to see more information on BDC Meta Man
Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint
The Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint give your users a forum environment they are familiar with
Users have a full Rich Textbox Editor to create their posts and topics
If your forum topic is a question, and someone replies - you can actually mark the topic as answered helping turn the forum into a knowledge base area
when marked as answered your topic will have a nice icon next to it...
For more information and a screencast of the forums in action please check out the Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint homepage.
BDC Mapper Web Part
Use the BDC Mapper Web Part to display your location type data. It can use either text address information or latitude and longitude data 
You can find our more about the BDC Mapper Web Part here.
BDC Calendar Web Part
If you have date type information in your line of business system use the BDC Calendar Web Part to show this in a user interface that is familiar and intuative to users.
To find our more information on the BDC Calendar Web Part please click here.
BDC KPI Web Part
Use our KPI Web Part to link directly to your line of business data to ensure your dashboards are showing the latest information to your users.
You can find out more information on the BDC KPI Web Part here.
LT Data Viewer Web Part
For companies who do not have MOSS 2007 and the Business Data Catalog you can use the LT Data Viewer Web Part to display information in WSS 3.0 directly from SQL Server or Oracle.
Please click here to get more information on the LT DVWP