If you click on the "Content" tab of the dashboard where the web part is located, and then on the web part name, you are presented with the web part's properties. Click on the link labeled "Show Advanced Settings". Near the bottom of the page is a list box labeled "Store the following data for this Web Part:". The second line defaults to '"DAV:getlastmodified" DESC' which means that this web part will be sorted by the last modified date and in descending order.

You can change the "DAV:getlastmodified" to "DAV:href" to sort by the URL, "DAV:displayname" to sort by the filename, "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Description" to sort by the description, or "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office#Title" to sort by the title.

You can also change the DESC to be ASC to sort in ascending order.

If you change the number at the end, It's "5" by default, increase this to increase the max number of items. Change it to "empty" to have no Maximum.

Make sure you also put the corresponding .GIF file in the Portal\Resources\DocTypeIcons folder. You have to enable OCR with the pre-installed .tiff ifilter in SharePoint, see the Administrator's help files.

For info on Icons and iFilters in SharePoint Team Services, visit http://www.sharepointtips.com

This is very fancy tip that I have discovered couple of months ago:

Like in windows, web folders also use html templates that user can modify
each folder's view.
SPS Web Storage Workspace's webfolder-templates located under:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
Folders\1033\WebView -folder (of course your drive-letter mght be anything
else than c: :-).

There is seven different template, one in each wss-foldertype:
1. CATEGORY.HTT for Categoryfolder template
2. CLASSICF.HTT for Knowledgefolder template (normal document folder)
3. MANAGMNT.HTT for Management folder template
4. SCHEMA.HTT for Management/Document profiles folder template
5. SEARCH.HTT for Management/Content Sources folder template
6. SMARTF.HTT for Smartfolder template (enhanced document folder)
7. WORKSPC.HTT for Workspace root folder template

Templates are actually html-files with html, css and vbscript little like
windows folder templates-files.

You can modify these templates view and logic by several ways:
1. With notepad or some html-editor to modify view and logic
2. Take advantage of W2K Customizing Folder Wizard to design view
3. Use WinXP folder customizing to design view

There are also Images-folder that contains tiny approvalroute-images(GIFs)
that loaded over icons during routing visualising document route state.

You can find three images:
COUT.GIF = Checkedout-pen
PEND.GIF = Pending approval-clock
APPR.GIF = published-star

There are also two more images that SPS uses, wvleft.bmp and wvline.gif.
These two can be found under windows foldertemplate dir in c:\winnt\web\



More "under the hood" details about Extending Explorer Views can be found
from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnmag00/htm
l/w2kui2.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwebtool/h
tml/webview.asp

Either overwrite the Dashlogo.gif file in Portal\Resources, or go to the "settings" of your dashboard (eg Home) and click "Advanced Settings, here, you get options like:

Use the following image in the header:

Use the following image (approximately 16 x 16 pixels) to represent this dashboard in listings, such as the dashboard navigation bar:

Order when displayed with other dashboards in the navigation bar:

I don't know if this will help, but I wanted to display the contents of a
document folder, having the same functionality that the news or

announcements web
parts have. We set up a web site on the same box to build web parts which

call
against the back end data. I then built an ASP page with the following code

...

<LINK rel="stylesheet"
href="http://servername/workspace/Portal/resources/global.css" />
<LINK rel="stylesheet"
href="http://servername/workspace/Portal/resources/spsdash.css" />
<%

on error resume next

'instantiate my objects on server

Set oFold = Server.CreateObject("CDO.KnowledgeFolder")
Set oDoc = Server.CreateObject("CDO.KnowledgeDocument")
Set oRS = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

'supply my folder choice.
sFileName = "http://servername/workspace/Documents/My Folder/"

'this code opens the folder
oFold.DataSource.Open sFileName,,3,-1

'bind the Recordset to the Items in the Folder.
Set oRS = oFold.Items

Response.Write "<table border=0>"

'Loop through the items in the document folder
Do While not oRS.EOF

'the document url is obtained from the recordset field 2. I
still need to understand this more, but it works.
sFileName = oRS.Fields(2)

'open that document to get at it's profile properties
oDoc.DataSource.Open sFileName,,3,-1

Response.Write "<tr><td colspan=2><a href='" & oDoc.Href & "'
target='_top'><strong>" & oDoc.Title & "</strong></a>"
Response.Write "&nbsp;&nbsp;<font size=1>(size: " &
oDoc.GetContentLength & "k)</font></td></tr>"
Response.Write "<tr><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td>" & oDoc.Description
& "</td></tr>"

oRS.MoveNext
Loop
'end the table
Response.Write "</table>"

Set oFold = Nothing
set oDoc = Nothing
set oRS = Nothing

%>

I then set up a web part to point to this ASP page. The result is the docs

in
that folder listed out with their title as a hot link, the file size next to

it,
and the file description just below. Looks just like the news web part.

Here's a quote from Gary A Bushey's FAQ

3.6) What is the "M" drive and how do I get map it?

The "M" drive is a way to access the SharePoint Portal Server's Web
Storage System via the Window's Explorer. In contrast, the Web Folder only
allows you to access individual workspaces.


To map the "M" drive, run the following command from the Command Prompt
"subst m: \\.\backofficestorage". If you already have a "M" drive mapped,
use a different letter.


If you wish to always have this drive mapped, you will need to make the
following change to the registry.



HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EXIFS\Parameters



set the "DriveLetter" to "M" or whatever drive letter you wish.


DO NOT set security of anything under the workspaces folder using the M
drive, or attempt to use the M drive to access anything inside the
workspaces folder. The only use for this drive is to access the
Applications folder for development, or as specified in documentation or
instructions from MS. Using M drive to set security on workspace contents
or access workspace contents (except read-only), is likely to break your
server.

It is HIGHLY recommend the answer to any question about the M drive is to
see
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/techinfo/deployment, open the document
titled " Installing SharePoint Portal Server" and refer to appendix B.

If you have the logon name of the user you can use ADSI
to read other values from the account. This requires ADSI
installed on the server - if not running Win2K/Active
directory.

This is not specific to SPS at all - but is an
programming interface generally available to Active
Directory.

anderbs@microsoft.com

To make your first Web Part, just open your SharePoint Portal (logged on as
Coordinator) Click "Content" then at the bottom of the page, "Create a new
web part" then stick some html in the box entitled: Embedded content. (This
content will be used when the above link is not available or not specified):

for example <p>hello world</p>

Save twice and there you are!