This post is really more of a plea (assuming that anyone is out there reading this). Tell me that I’m not losing it. I have built an "application" in a SharePoint site. (This application manages the sporting event tickets that my client has available to dole out to various executives to use with clients.) The…
I had a scare last Friday when I thought that some pages in an application that I had already deployed to a production SharePoint site were failing due to a large number (3300+) of items in a list. Turns out that it wasn’t the problem, but it’s worth understanding that the party line says that…
There’s a nice article over at the SharePoint Designer Team Blog about how to manipulate a List Form Field (AKA Data Form Field) using Javascript. It gives some great methods to accomplish this, but if you’d like to get the current value of a People Picker on a form (for validation purposes, most likely), the info…
If you set up a sort in a DVWP that has an aggregate Data Source, you’ll need to use the <xsl:sort> tag. If you want to sort by a list column that is numeric, the tag: <xsl:sort select=”@JobFamilyRank” order=”ascending”/> will sort your data like: 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 20, 21, 3… That is, SharePoint…
As a follow on to my last post, getting the syntax right for Javascript to work well within XSL can drive you a little batty at times. One good trick is using the <xsl:attribute> tag. The XSL below is a snippet from the page that I described in my last post. When the user checks…