If you set up a sort in a DVWP that has an aggregate Data Source, you’ll need to use the <xsl:sort> tag. If you want to sort by a list column that is numeric, the tag: <xsl:sort select=”@JobFamilyRank” order=”ascending”/> will sort your data like: 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 20, 21, 3… That is, SharePoint…
As a follow on to my last post, getting the syntax right for Javascript to work well within XSL can drive you a little batty at times. One good trick is using the <xsl:attribute> tag. The XSL below is a snippet from the page that I described in my last post. When the user checks…
I’ve been working a lot with custom forms in SharePoint lately, and I’m finding all sorts of shortcuts. Here’s a good example. I’ve got a form on which I am allowing the user to select 1-n tickets for an event by ticking a checkbox in each row. The form displays all available tickets for the…
I got a message through my Live Space today, but I couldn’t respond due to the sender’s preferences, so I decided that I’d reply here. I’m having an issue with some Data View Web Parts I created via SPD. I create the data views in Designer using data sources from SharePoint lists. That works fine….
There are occasions when the master page that is attached to a site is not valid. The master page connection is made with a URL, and if that URL isn’t valid, you will get errors like: File not found (This is SharePoint saying that the master page itself is not found.) / cannot be opened…
This one was suggested to me by my friend and colleague Mike Koffman. He always tries to take the time to go to Advanced in the Modify Web Part panel and take away the user’s ability to "close" the web part. Here’s the story why. In working on other people’s sites in SharePoint, I’m often…
Many of the gradients that you see in the default SharePoint branding (that dreaded blue and orange that everyone wants to change) are created by using an image that is the appropriate height and one pixel wide. The images are used as the background-image in the various CSS classes with background-repeat set to repeat-x. This…
I’m working at a new client and just getting the machine that they have me using working the way I like it. I tried to open a workflow in SharePoint Designer and got the popup dialog: “Failed to load the workflow.” (I had already loaded .NET 3.0 to get the Workflow Foundation Classes.) A…
If you’ve been using Office 2007 on a Vista machine for as long as I have, you may have just gotten used to the extra credential prompts when you open Office documents from SharePoint 2007. Well, Microsoft considers this a "known issue", but it’s not clear when it may be resolved for good, though it…
Serge van den Oever wrote this MSDN article about the functions that are available in the ddwrt namespace. He wrote it for SharePoint 2003 and posted it to MSDN in October 2005, but I’ve never found a newer or better reference for MOSS. I’ve used Serge’s postings many times to help solve challenges, and I…