Here’s another case where looking at my blog stats gave me an idea for a post. There were several searches about the apostrophe character which led people to my blog today: sharepoint data view apostrophe dataview apostrophe problem sharepoint The apostrophe character (‘ or ' or ASCII character 39) is a bit of a trickster…
If you’ve ever created custom forms in a SharePoint list’s context, for example: [SiteName]/Lists/[ListName]/MyForm.aspx for a list, or [SiteName]/[DocumentLibrary]/Forms/MyForm.aspx for a Document Library you may have found that your form shows up in the list’s view selector at the upper right of the list pages. If this happens, you may have done what I’ve done…
This post is based on another interesting question which I answered over in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum. Here’s the question from SLF05: …basically, the concept of customized vs. un-customized [object within SharePoint] isn’t 100% clear. When it comes to chrome/layout/CSS type files, it’s best to keep [things] un-customized for various reasons…
Laura Rogers over at EndUserSharePoint.com has a new series on the Data View Web Part (DVWP). All of her posts are great, but the Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms one showed me something I didn’t know that I could do with SharePoint Designer just by making some dialog box choices:…
Every blog post I’ve read says it can’t be done, but now I beg to differ! Today I came up with a way to sum calculated columns in SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWPs). It has been bugging me for a long time that I couldn’t do this, and it especially bugged me that everyone…