Showing Subtotals in a DVWP, Sorted by the Subtotals – Part 2

In a post the other day, I showed some code to show subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending.  This worked great for most types of columns as the groups, but Person/Group columns can be a bit problematic.  This is due to the fact that there is a…

XSL Alternative to Eliminating Duplicates Using ddwrt:NameChanged

I like using the ddwrt namespace functions, as they give you a lot of power in your DVWP’s XSL.  I just found an alternative approach to using the ddwrt:NameChanged function which may make more sense in some situations.  I included this approach in an update to my prior post, but it seemed worth a post…

Showing Subtotals in a DVWP, Sorted by the Subtotals – Part 1

I ran across a post over at the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum which intrigued me enough to want to figure it out.  The question was about showing subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending. In other words, for a list with these items: Title Amount…

Pre-filling Column Values in a SharePoint Form

Christian Ståhl left me a good question in another post: Have you tried to ‘formfill’ a SharePoint column for date and time with ‘today’s date’, that would be cool if its possibly? Of course it’s possible!  You can pre-fill any columns value based on rules which you decide.  There are probably a few common situations:…