Every once in a while, when I am explaining something about technology to one of my clients, it seems as though it might be of general use, and I turn it into a blog post. This is basic stuff to anyone who knows much about SharePoint, but maybe it will be useful to someone. Here’s…
I’m used to using flyouts in the tabbed navigation in MOSS to enhance the navigation capabilities. (See my earlier post on this to find out how to make it happen.) Today I wanted to do the same thing in a WSS master page, but just changing the MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels value wasn’t working. I found this post…
I was skimming my old postings, and I realized that in a previous post, I had said that I would post about firing an event when a user selects a value from a DVWP dropdown. Better late than never, I guess. When you create a dropdown type of DVWP through the UI in SharePoint Designer, the…
I needed to put sets of news articles into buckets in a list so that I could allow users to filter based on the time period in which the articles were published. To do this, I created a calculated column as a Site Column (for reusability). Column name: Archive Period Calculation: =IF([Publish Date]<([Today]-365),”Year” & TEXT(YEAR([Publish…
It’s been a few quiet months here on my blog, as I have been hunkered down, knee deep in XSL and custom SharePoint pages for a client project. All of that work has given me some insights on how those mysterious aspx pages that SharePoint generates actually work, and I thought it would be a…