Installing the Data Viewer Web Part

This section contains information on how to install the Data Viewer Web Part for Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013. It is essential to read and complete the installation steps before you can add the Data Viewer Web Part to a SharePoint page. Information on using and configuring the Data Viewer Web Part can be found later in the documentation.

*As the Data Viewer Web Part is a SharePoint® 2013 farm solution, you may need to raise a change request to install the SharePoint farm solution in your organisation’s production or system integration SharePoint farms. As this is a farm solution it cannot be install in Office 365™.

Once you have installed the Data Viewer Web Part farm solution you should test the installation by adding the Web Part to either a wiki page or a Web Part page in the site collection where you have activated the Lightning Data Viewer Web Part site collection feature.

Use the following steps to install the Data Viewer Web Part:

1. Upload the DataViewer2013webpart.wsp solution package to the SharePoint® 2013 farm.
   
   
2. Deploy the solution to the required Web Applications.
   
   
3. Activate the Data Viewer 2013 license key if you are not using the trial version of the Web Part
   
   
4. Activate the Data Viewer Web Part site collection feature on the required site collections
   
   
5. Test the installation by adding the Web Part to a page

From time to time we will provide an update for the web part. This is on average every 12 weeks.