Here’s a nice little trick to see what’s in the XML stream being returned in a Data View Web Part (DVWP), or any other Web Part where you can specify the XSL. By replacing the <xsl:stylesheet> code in your Web Part (between the <Xsl></Xsl> tags) with the following, you get a simple result set which shows you…
In a post the other day, I showed some code to show subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending. This worked great for most types of columns as the groups, but Person/Group columns can be a bit problematic. This is due to the fact that there is a…
That Christophe guy over at Path to SharePoint never rests! I just spotted his post on his new Easy Tabs Web Part. I haven’t dug under the covers on it yet, but Christophe’s stuff is always nice. The Easy Tabs Web Part is a Content Editor Web Part with some JavaScript. When added to a…
I like using the ddwrt namespace functions, as they give you a lot of power in your DVWP’s XSL. I just found an alternative approach to using the ddwrt:NameChanged function which may make more sense in some situations. I included this approach in an update to my prior post, but it seemed worth a post…
I ran across a post over at the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum which intrigued me enough to want to figure it out. The question was about showing subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending. In other words, for a list with these items: Title Amount…