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…
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…