I posted back in February about using the Data View Web Part to do cross list rollups (See Rolling Up Content in SharePoint Using the Data View Web Part (DVWP)). Since then, I’ve done quite a few of these, and I’ve been meaning for some time to post this update. Not everything that I believed…
I recently updated my Windows XP SP3 machine with some recommended updates from Windows Update. After I did so, I received the following error every time I tried to open a Datasheet view in SharePoint: The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: A datasheet component compatible…
Here’s an easy one — except that most of your users won’t know about it. I was just asked how someone can know about how much disk space they are using with their SharePoint sites. Well, lo and behold, if you are a Site Collection Administrator, you can (at the root of the Site Collection),…
One of the big "gotchas" in coding against the SharePoint Object Model is not disposing of resources properly. In relatively little time, you can find that your server is cycling itself to free up resources, with no apparent reason. The first thing you should check is your own code. Roger Lamb has written an excellent,…
My client was seeing an odd error in one of their environments, bot not any of the others. When you would go to configure an out-of-the-box workflow on a site, you’d see the "The form cannot be displayed because session state is not available." error after clicking Next on the first configuration screen (/_layouts/AddWrkfl.aspx). Some…