Especially when you are using Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), but anytime you are using a Web Part that allows custom XLS to control display, you may want to do a test on dates. Doing this is relatively easy if you know a few of the ddwrt namespace date functions. In this example, let’s say…
If you’re using Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0, you might wish you could add RSS feeds to your sites like you can using the RSS Web Part in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). You can! Simply add an XML Web Part to the site and paste the link to the RSS feed into the XML…
There is no dearth of opinion on this topic, whether it be from Microsoft or any of the many, many vendors out there who want to help you justify, plan, design, implement, or support (or paint, or count, or whatever) your SharePoint installation. So, I thought it would be absolutely critical for me to toss…
The idea of rolling up calendars across multiple SharePoint sites comes up very frequently in conversations with clients. We’ve always tried to think of a nice, elegant way to make it work, but haven’t ever really come up with the “right” answer. I saw a post on SharePointPedia today that looks to be that “right”…
One of the most powerful features of SharePoint 2007 (MOSS), in my opinion, seems to be one that doesn’t get a lot of attention in the blogosphere: Content Types. From a Knowledge Management or Content Management perspective, Content Types are a huge benefit. Not only do Content Types allow you to define metadata (columns) that…
I had seen the post on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog the other day about faceted search, but for some reason, it didn’t make an impression. Today, Scott Jamison posted about it, so I took another look. (I’ve worked with Scott, and I pay attention when he touts something.) This is really…
A client of ours was having trouble getting this idea to work based on a post he found on the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog. I took a look and got it to work nicely in a test situation. This is a nice trick, as it can help to pre-populate metadata that your users might…
I’ve frequently been asked if it is possible to display only the current month’s documents in a SharePoint list. There is no obvious way to do this, as the filtering mechanism in a view will not allow you to specify a formula as its criteria. The trick is to create a calculated column on the…
I just ran across a pair of postings on this from Ramon Scott and Kanwal Khipple (on the SharePointBuzz blog). Almost every client that I’ve worked with on their Intranet has wanted some sort of variation on this, calling it the Company Directory, the Facebook, or something similar. The way I’ve always done it was…
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…