A Data View Web Part (DVWP) that displays a dropdown can be a useful tool to drive navigation. See my previous post about showing content archives (Displaying an Archive for a SharePoint List) as an example. If you have a decent number of items in the list you are using, you will likely end up…
I wanted to get at the site name to use in a Data View Web Part’s (DVWP) filter. An example is where you have a site per project, with the project number being the site name and you want to based various filters on that value. To do this, you can set up a parameter…
If you’ve done much work using custom forms in SharePoint, you’ve probably run into the {generate-id()} bugaboo. For reasons that I’ve not been able to determine, if you use an id attribute in any HTML element, SharePoint Designer adds the {generate-id()} string to the end of the name you’ve set. Here’s an example. If you…
As usual, while looking for something else, I found a great trick. This one is from Maarten Eekels. I’ve tried to figure out how to do this several times before, and Maarten shows a nice, simple, elegant solution for it. Check out his blog post. Technorati tags: SharePoint, Data View Web Parts
Have I ever mentioned that I’m a big fan of Data View Web Parts (DVWPs)? Well, yes I am. I find them indispensable to display the contents of lists in a nice, clean format rather than staying with the out-of-the-box views that the list provides. One issue with this is that Search and RSS want…