I’ve noticed over the last few months that many of the SharePoint blogs which I’ve been following for years have sort of gone away. They are actually still there, but rather than being a source of great, insightful information about new ways to do things with SharePoint, tips and tricks, code snippets, and the like,…
Many so-called Web 2.0 sites show a little icon for any links which send you out of their purview to another site. This is a nice thing to do within SharePoint as well. You can easily make this happen without users needing to take any action by adding some JavaScript into your master page. I…
Say you have a list of people (or rooms or products or whatever) where you would like to let the user specify the first letter of the person and then show them all of the people’s names which start with that letter. Doable, of course, and a nice little recursive XSL template can get you…
If you’ve been around for a while and/or you subscribe to Consumer Reports Magazine, you know what Harvey Balls are. They are little circles with varying amounts filled in which can be used to represent a level of completeness, sophistication, match to a standard, etc. They are a good replacement for numerical scales in many…
UPDATE 2009-10-19: I solved this for real in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services function called $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID. Feel free to read this post, but this is the solution you’re looking for. UPDATE 2009-10-01: I’ve posted an update on this idea. It’s possible to simplify the interstitial page using the Web Services from the jQuery Library for…
UPDATE 2010-08-26: I’ve added this template to the SPXSLT project on Codeplex. There’s a bit more explanation there. UPDATE 2010-04-27: Shalin Parmar pointed out in a comment below that I had a bug in the template where the separator would only be displayed between the first and second values. I’ve made a change to the template to…
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:…