Hiding a Document library from user in the browser is straightforward using SharePoint Designer (SPD) and there is a single setting to accomplish it. First, open the site with SPD. Once the site is open, you will see the list of objects contained within the site down the left side of the screen. By default,…
Heather Waterman (@hwaterman) and I turn to each other fairly regularly when either of us is stuck on something that we know the other will understand better. It’s the tremendous value of the SharePoint community along with the crazy tools like Skype that we have these days. (When I started coding, it was hard enough…
I’ve created more customized Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) than I could possibly count, but I still learn new stuff all the time. Tonight I was trying to get a DVWP to switch into DataSourceMode=”CrossList” and I accidentally noticed a nice little trick. If you right-click on the DVWP and select Properties, a Tag Properties…
I’ve just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project, version 0.0.9. In this release, I added one new template called FixAmpersands. FixAmpersands is useful when you want to “join’ two lists in an AggregateDataSource in a Data View Web Part (DVWP) and the column you are uisng as the key may contain ampersands….
For a long time, I’ve been reluctant to try to add caching to SPServices. The main reason is that I couldn’t think of a reliable way to do it that wasn’t going to cause potential issues and it also had to be backward compatible. Well, I think I’ve cracked that nut. In the current alpha…
The other day I did a post in which I was grousing about what a pain it is to move individual lists from a 2007 environment to a 2010 environment. Even worse, I wanted to move the lists from a hosted WSS 3.0 environment at FPWeb to Office365. Because of this, there was no access…
I’m positive I’ve run into this little issue before, but since I don’t seem to have done a post on it, I stymied myself again. A client of mine spotted a nice post from Ben Tedder (@bentedder) showing how to Create a Classifieds Listing using SharePoint 2010. It uses a bunch of Content Query Web…
It’s a long holiday weekend here in the U.S., I’ve been sick with some sort of flu for all of it, and it’s really nice and sunny outside. So what am I doing? Trying to migrate my Sympraxis Consulting demo site from my FPWeb-hosted WSS 3.0 site (yeah, I’m a little behind) to my Office365…
There have been many milestones in the SPServices saga, but this one sort of caught my eye and since I got a screen grab, I figured I’d do a quick post.. Even with over 48,000 total downloads of all of the versions I’ve released, this version seems to have really taken off, hitting 6,000 downloads…
Many times when you have a dropdown column in your lists, you’d like to show the values sorted in a different order than alphabetically. Sure, you can use a Choice column and order the choices in any way you’d like. However, in the cases where you want the dopdown to be based on a Site…