If you’ve done much work using custom forms in SharePoint, you’ve probably run into the {generate-id()} bugaboo. For reasons that I’ve not been able to determine, if you use an id attribute in any HTML element, SharePoint Designer adds the {generate-id()} string to the end of the name you’ve set. Here’s an example. If you…

As usual, while looking for something else, I found a great trick.  This one is from Maarten Eekels.  I’ve tried to figure out how to do this several times before, and Maarten shows a nice, simple, elegant solution for it.  Check out his blog post. Technorati tags: SharePoint, Data View Web Parts

Have I ever mentioned that I’m a big fan of Data View Web Parts (DVWPs)?  Well, yes I am.  I find them indispensable to display the contents of lists in a nice, clean format rather than staying with the out-of-the-box views that the list provides. One issue with this is that Search and RSS want…

I’ve looked for quite a while now for a good reference for what formulas are available to me when I create a calculated column in SharePoint.  Today I think I stumbled on the easy answer: Excel. Here’s a simple example. I wanted to return the year for the Created date.  When I just used: =YEAR([Created])…