I’m used to using flyouts in the tabbed navigation in MOSS to enhance the navigation capabilities. (See my earlier post on this to find out how to make it happen.) Today I wanted to do the same thing in a WSS master page, but just changing the MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels value wasn’t working. I found this post…
I was skimming my old postings, and I realized that in a previous post, I had said that I would post about firing an event when a user selects a value from a DVWP dropdown. Better late than never, I guess. When you create a dropdown type of DVWP through the UI in SharePoint Designer, the…
I needed to put sets of news articles into buckets in a list so that I could allow users to filter based on the time period in which the articles were published. To do this, I created a calculated column as a Site Column (for reusability). Column name: Archive Period Calculation: =IF([Publish Date]<([Today]-365),”Year” & TEXT(YEAR([Publish…
It’s been a few quiet months here on my blog, as I have been hunkered down, knee deep in XSL and custom SharePoint pages for a client project. All of that work has given me some insights on how those mysterious aspx pages that SharePoint generates actually work, and I thought it would be a…
I know that everyone and their br/m/other is going to post about this, but Office 2007 SP1 is now available. I’m downloading it as I type, hoping that it will fix some of the small annoyances. (Nothing major, really, just things I’ve learned to work around.) You can download it here. Technorati tags: Office 2007,…
Having worked at Bain & Company for 6 years many moons ago, I still keep an eye on their publications and I occasionally spot something interesting. In June (though I just received a copy from the Bain alumni association), Darrell Rigby and Barbara Bilodeau published the results of their latest survey on management tools and…
The Telerik RADEditor for MOSS is a great add-on that provides enhanced Rich Text Editing within MOSS. (See my previous post: Telerik RADEditor for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)) One of the nice features of the RADEditor is a tool that provides a list of Custom Links from which a user can choose to insert their links. …
I was working with an aspx page in SharePoint Designer and wanted to copy a Data View Web Part (DVWP) and use it again on the same page with different parameters. (Same data source, just different filtering.) Every time I did so, everything rendered just fine in Designer, but when I went to save the…
Yes, let’s call it a feature. Couldn’t be a bug, could it? If you set a Web Part Zone to have a side-to-side (rather than the default top-to-bottom), i.e., horizontal layout, everything looks fine in SharePoint Designer. However, when you go to your browser and look at the result, there will be a new table…
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…