It was a great pleasure to be able to make a small swoop through Europe this last week to present at SharePoint Saturday UK (SPSUK) in Nottingham, England and at the SharePoint and Exchange Forum 2011 (SEF11) in Stockholm, Sweden. Both events were well-attended, with something like 250-350 eager learners at each. it’s always interesting…
Sometimes I work on something and blindly stumble into a neat trick. The other day I was trying to figure out how to reliably add a tabbed view to a SharePoint Web Part Page. I was working in SharePoint Designer, so I had total freedom to try whatever I wanted. The idea was to show…
<UPDATE dateTime=”2012-12-04″> This issue is resolved in v0.7.0+. See this post for more details, including the SPFilterNode function. </UPDATE> <UPDATE dateTime=”2011-11-15T11:59GMT-1″> Steve Workman has come up with a much improved way to do the selecting for things like z:row in general – it’s much faster, as Steve’s statistics show – and it also works with…
Today is one of those days where I try to figure out a bunch of odd situations in various places. The oddest was one involving a Data View Web Part (DVWP) I wrote about a year ago. It’s been running just fine ever since – until about a month or so ago. I didn’t hear…
I got an email yesterday from Geoff Oliver. He said he had done something pretty useful with SPServices and wondered if I would be interested in seeing it. I manage about 115 groups in a single site collection…and that number is expected to grow. I found that when a new user came on board or…
We can do all sorts of fun stuff that makes the user experience (UX) in SharePoint far better than it is out of the box. One of those things is to use jQueryUI widgets like an accordion to put a large amount of content on the page, but broken into categorized, consumable chunks. Most people…
This one is just for fun. Matt Bramer (@iOnline247) tweeted the other day: http://twitter.com/iOnline247/status/126795256225210368 That just seemed too good not to check out. Take a look what you’ll find if you do go to [your-sharepoint-server]/_layouts/xsl/internal.xsl: … Now who said that there are no hacks in SharePoint? ;+)
Over at the USPJ Academy, we’re really excited to finally be able to talk publicly about the partnership we’ve formed with InnerWorkings. We’ve been working hard with them over the last few months to get our content and platform capabilities integrated with theirs to deliver our classes to their customer base. We’re proud of our…
The other day I tweeted: It seems hardly an hour goes by in the day when I don't see something that could be more efficient – with no cost in jobs. — Marc D Anderson (@sympmarc) October 12, 2011 Dan Dragnea called me on it, fairly enough: @sympmarc sorry, I was curious how increased efficiency…
The conference continues along at breakneck speed toward tomorrow’s wrap up. I’ve noticed a few themes I thought were worth recording. As with almost all SharePoint events, I still see an overabundance of sessions focused on the technology side of SharePoint and not enough sessions focused on the so-called “business” side. The technology shouldn’t even…