This post is really more of a plea (assuming that anyone is out there reading this). Tell me that I’m not losing it. I have built an "application" in a SharePoint site. (This application manages the sporting event tickets that my client has available to dole out to various executives to use with clients.) The…
I had a scare last Friday when I thought that some pages in an application that I had already deployed to a production SharePoint site were failing due to a large number (3300+) of items in a list. Turns out that it wasn’t the problem, but it’s worth understanding that the party line says that…
There’s a nice article over at the SharePoint Designer Team Blog about how to manipulate a List Form Field (AKA Data Form Field) using Javascript. It gives some great methods to accomplish this, but if you’d like to get the current value of a People Picker on a form (for validation purposes, most likely), the info…
If you set up a sort in a DVWP that has an aggregate Data Source, you’ll need to use the <xsl:sort> tag. If you want to sort by a list column that is numeric, the tag: <xsl:sort select=”@JobFamilyRank” order=”ascending”/> will sort your data like: 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 20, 21, 3… That is, SharePoint…
As a follow on to my last post, getting the syntax right for Javascript to work well within XSL can drive you a little batty at times. One good trick is using the <xsl:attribute> tag. The XSL below is a snippet from the page that I described in my last post. When the user checks…
I’ve been working a lot with custom forms in SharePoint lately, and I’m finding all sorts of shortcuts. Here’s a good example. I’ve got a form on which I am allowing the user to select 1-n tickets for an event by ticking a checkbox in each row. The form displays all available tickets for the…
I got a message through my Live Space today, but I couldn’t respond due to the sender’s preferences, so I decided that I’d reply here. I’m having an issue with some Data View Web Parts I created via SPD. I create the data views in Designer using data sources from SharePoint lists. That works fine….
There are occasions when the master page that is attached to a site is not valid. The master page connection is made with a URL, and if that URL isn’t valid, you will get errors like: File not found (This is SharePoint saying that the master page itself is not found.) / cannot be opened…
This one was suggested to me by my friend and colleague Mike Koffman. He always tries to take the time to go to Advanced in the Modify Web Part panel and take away the user’s ability to "close" the web part. Here’s the story why. In working on other people’s sites in SharePoint, I’m often…
Many of the gradients that you see in the default SharePoint branding (that dreaded blue and orange that everyone wants to change) are created by using an image that is the appropriate height and one pixel wide. The images are used as the background-image in the various CSS classes with background-repeat set to repeat-x. This…