Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… In the last article, I talked about teasing out the various parts of the values in Person or Group column values. To do this, I relied on the substring functions which are available to us in XSL. In this article, I’ll go over a few of those string functions and show you…
Jim Bob Howard and I have been going back and forth thinking about this for a few days now. You’re not going to believe how simple the answer is! I found a post that told me the simple answer: Just query the list like any other list! Here’s the simple test I just did in…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… As I got into writing this “last” article in the series, I realized that between the things people have asked me over the course of the series and the things I think might be useful, I have far more than one more article to write. I think I’ll keep this series going…
This post may come off a little whiny and entitled, but bear with me, as I don’t mean it that way. I was on vacation recently and did some long, hard thinking about where I am in my career and where I want to go. This cow has been giving away milk for a long…
I got a question today via Twitter and my blog that I thought I’d share: Further to Twitter message, I need to lookup values in a large list (thousands of items). Now, list performance and architecture issues aside, my intention is to use some JQuery enabled textbox which makes web service calls to suggest matching…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:value-of> Outputs the value to which it evaluates, whether it be the value of a column, a variable, etc. <xsl:value-of> is sort of the “biggie” XSL tag. It’s what you use to output values of things that are variable. Pretty much every other tag we’ve talked about exists to get you to…
There’s a great article in the February 2010 issue (18.02 for you fans) of Wired magazine. The Editor in Chief of Wired, Chris Anderson, tells us that Atoms Are the New Bits. Chris’s premise, which I fully believe, is that manufacturing is about to undergo the same sort of fundamental shift we’ve seen in information…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:choose> Like <xsl:if>, but with multiple possibilities, more like if-then-else. <xsl:when> Used within <xsl:choose> as a conditional test. If the test is true, then the contained code is executed and the <xsl:choose> is exited. <xsl:otherwise> Used within <xsl:choose> as the “fall-back” condition. If none of the prior <xsl:when>s have been executed, the…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:if> A single conditional test. If the test is true, then the contained code is executed. <xsl:if> is one of the simple workhorses in the Data View Web Part (DVWP) XSL arsenal. Its entire goal in life is to determine whether the code it contains is executed or not. Looking at our…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:sort> Used within an <xsl:for-each> to determine the sort order in which the nodeset (group of rows) are processed. <xsl:sort> allows you to change the default sort order of the items as they are displayed in a Data View Web Part (DVWP). By default (in almost all cases), the items will be…