Over in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization Forum, I was answering some questions about how to best provide filtering capabilities on a List View Web Part. McGeeky wanted to put filtering dropdowns at the top of the page to "improve the user experience". My stock answer to this is to user Data View…
@workerthread tweeted this today: Really interested to hear if you can reproduce weird #SharePoint Designer custom form behaviour detailed here http://bit.ly/60Tko I ran through the steps Derek outlines, and I do indeed see the odd behavior that he reports. I’ve never seen this before because this isn’t the usual sequence I go through to create…
With a software platform as ubiquitous and powerful as SharePoint, there are bound to be some "urban myths" that build up around it. Here are two of my biggies. What SharePoint myths do you have in the back of your mind? Let me know about them and I’ll write about them in future posts. There…
Another question from my contact form: Hi Marc. My problem in short is to get a filters to work on columns that holds values from linked tables. For instance I have a column with xsl:value-of select="../../../Products/Rows/Row[@Title=current()/@ProductID]/@ProductGroup" Am at a loss for a way to do it at this point. A hint would be greatly appreciated….
An interesting email came over the transom today with some questions about "connected" list filters: Hi Marc, I often visit your blog for any doubts in dataview. I read your post on cascading dropdowns that was really helpful and presented in nice way. Recently i had to use a filter toolbar for a dataview,i had…