When you use the Data View Web Part in SharePoint to display documents in a document library, the "File Type" field that is available is text (doc, pdf, gif, etc.) rather than an icon.  You’d really rather display the icon instead to be consistent with other document library views.  Here’s how you can make that…

I posted earlier about editing the default.aspx file in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\MPS directory to apply branding to your SharePoint 2003 sites.  I was focused on meeting sites at the time.  Today I realized that each of the directories under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\ contains a default.aspx for a different…

I recently had an opportunity to mirror some Access reports in SharePoint.  It reminded me how powerful Data View Web Parts in SharePoint really are.  Here’s what I did… The Access front end was using SQL Server as its back end data server, so I knew that I could get at the data from SharePoint. …

Very interesting article today from Microsoft Research about all of those annoying doorway pages that are all over the Internet these days.  These are the pages that you see often when you search for something, click on one of the links, and get a page full of links and ads.  The underlying report is worth a…

My colleague Mauro Cardarelli wrote a good post yesterday about workflow.  We’ve had many philosophical as well as reality-based discussions about workflow over the last few months and I wanted to toss a few more ideas into the mix.  Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS) provides the tools to build incredibly complex and rich workflows.  However, the toolset is a…