No matter how long I work with the Power Platform, I’m always running into things which feel like they should be simple, but simply aren’t. Recently, I needed to filter a SharePoint list as a data source which had a multi-select Person or Group column. It’s a simple idea, really. The list is one which…
A few weeks back when I was at the Digital Workplace Conference in Melbourne – a most excellent conference – I saw Adam Cogan (@adamcogan) demonstrate Power BI in his session Improve Your Business Intelligence with Power BI. I’d seen Power BI before a few times, but the way Adam showed it, it finally “clicked” for me. I…
As I’ve written many times in the past, I get a lot of questions via this blog. I try to answer some of them, but often they simply come in too fast and furious for me to get to them all. Answering the questions gives me some benefits, too, or course. First, I often learn…
This is one of those things that I’m amazed I haven’t run into before. Perhaps I did in the past and wrote it off to my own lack of understanding. It turns out that this is a known, if rarely mentioned, limitation not only for Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) but also Content Query Web…
In an old post, I sketched out how you could set go about Setting Multi-Select Widths in a SharePoint EditForm.aspx Using JavaScript. The code I posted there worked just fine, but took some manual tweaking every time you wanted to use it. The basic idea is this: When SharePoint renders the multi-select control, the <div>s…
<UPDATE date=”2009-01-25″> I now have a function in my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services called SPSetMultiSelectSizes which accomplishes this in a more robust way, taking into account the font, font size, etc. </UPDATE> When you have a multi-select lookup column in a list, SharePoint provides you with a control that shows two select boxes next to each…