Hiding a Document library from user in the browser is straightforward using SharePoint Designer (SPD) and there is a single setting to accomplish it. First, open the site with SPD. Once the site is open, you will see the list of objects contained within the site down the left side of the screen. By default,…
Heather Waterman (@hwaterman) and I turn to each other fairly regularly when either of us is stuck on something that we know the other will understand better. It’s the tremendous value of the SharePoint community along with the crazy tools like Skype that we have these days. (When I started coding, it was hard enough…
I’ve created more customized Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) than I could possibly count, but I still learn new stuff all the time. Tonight I was trying to get a DVWP to switch into DataSourceMode=”CrossList” and I accidentally noticed a nice little trick. If you right-click on the DVWP and select Properties, a Tag Properties…
I’ve just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project, version 0.0.9. In this release, I added one new template called FixAmpersands. FixAmpersands is useful when you want to “join’ two lists in an AggregateDataSource in a Data View Web Part (DVWP) and the column you are uisng as the key may contain ampersands….
For a long time, I’ve been reluctant to try to add caching to SPServices. The main reason is that I couldn’t think of a reliable way to do it that wasn’t going to cause potential issues and it also had to be backward compatible. Well, I think I’ve cracked that nut. In the current alpha…