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…