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MagicSharepoint is a code generator ala Iron Speed Designer, but designed to look at Sharepoint lists instead of SQL tables. The result is an Ajax-ified html page ready to interact with a Sharepoint list. The code was originally built around Darren Johnstone's SPAPI javascript libraries, which cleanly provides a wrapper around the WSDL presented by Sharepoint's native web services. I added callback functionality to his original SPAPI_Core library, and also added some additional folder manipulation methods to his SPAPI_Lists library.

There is much work to be done to make this foolproof, but in my environment I create a /utils folder off the root of the SP site collection, then unzip the archive into that folder.

Access /utils/magicsharepoint.htm and it should automatically pull in all sites and subsites available on your site. Scroll down and click the desired site, and a list of lists will appear on the right. Click on a list and code will be generated and displayed. Click preview, and the code will be pushed to /utils/test.htm and executed in an iframe.

To use this code, I create a new HTML page and paste the contents of the generated source into it, edit to create the presentation I want, then add a Content Editor Web Part and point it at the new HTML file. Hopefully, voila!