Feb 11 2011
My pal Tasha Scott (@TashasEv) tweeted a question today about how to get at the display name for a Content Type on a NewForm: Hello Gentlemen, As requested, I am posting my query from Twitter in regards to trying to pass the Content Type of an item into the PlaceHolderPageTitleinTitleArea, um, area of a New …
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Aug 12 2010
A student at USPJ Academy asked this question in a forum thread the other day: Can someone explain the advantages of using Custom Content Types in a List/Form Library as they pertain to making the rollup of data in a DVWP easier? I am not sure if this is true, but someone here at work …
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Apr 21 2009
There are a number of posts about this in blogs out there about this trick and I’m not sure who posted first, so I’ll attribute it to the Ferrara Data Consulting | Company Blog. It’s certainly a useful trick, and worth repeating. By default, all SharePoint lists have a column called Title (@Title for you …
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Jan 27 2009
I think I’ve found an interesting (if you think things like this are interesting) difference between Document Libraries and Custom lists when it comes to the use of Site Columns. I had some filtering code in a DVWP that ought to have worked the same way on both a Custom List and a Document Library, …
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Dec 04 2008
Sometimes when you try to remove a Content Type’s association from a list, you will get the error "Content Type is still in use", even if you don’t seem to have any items in the list! Here are a few things to check: Make sure that the Content Type isn’t the default – Go to …
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