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…