Anyone who follows this blog or hears me speak at conferences knows that I am a *huge* fan of the Data View Web Part (DVWP). A good friend sent me this quick question in an email today: Content query webpart vs data view wp? When would you use content query over data view? Here was…
This is one of those things that I’m amazed I haven’t run into before. Perhaps I did in the past and wrote it off to my own lack of understanding. It turns out that this is a known, if rarely mentioned, limitation not only for Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) but also Content Query Web…
The other day, I got a question form an ex-client about Content Types: How many content types can we reasonably have in a document management collection for a large organization, with multiple document libraries? I am proposing using around 200 content types. We are 12,000 people in 130 countries, so we are big and complex….
It was great doing the webinar for MetaVis yesterday called “Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier“. Thanks to Dave Coleman (@davecoleman146) for the invitation to do this and the facilitation, and to Peter Senescu of MetaVis. If you haven’t looked at MetaVis’ tools for managing your SharePoint farm, whether for migration, working with your information architecture,…
Carlos Nunes-Ueno posted some XSL you can use in a DVWP to the SPXSLT Codeplex Project a while back which allows you to easily utilize the jQueryUI accordion and tabs functions. I asked him if he’d mind if I did a blog post on it, and he agreed. (If you happen to read the thread,…
Yes, that title says using jQueryUI on InfoPath forms in SharePoint. InfoPath forms are fantastic, except when they just aren’t quite able to do what you want. While InfoPath can help you take your SharePoint list forms to a whole new level, there may be times when you want to add some behavior to those…
In case you missed my Middle Tier Magic: The SPSTCDC Web Site Speakers and Sessions Pages webinar which I did a little over a week ago with Dux Sy (@meetdux), I just wanted to do a quick post about it. The webinar was my “session” for SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (SPSTCDC) since I wasn’t able…
Do you have any lists in SharePoint where the forms seem to go on and on, marching down the page, seemingly ad infinitum? I’ve seen lists which have over a hundred, even over 300 columns. This is a horrible thing to do to your users for so many reasons, but one of the primary reasons…
When you build a Data View Web Part (DVWP) in SharePoint Designer, there are times when you might need compound filtering. By this, I mean something like: Show me the items where (City=”Abington” or Approval Status=”Approved”) and Approval Status!=”Pending” It’s sort of a silly example, but you should get the gist. Where you put the…
Every time I see Sadie Van Buren talk about her truly excellent SharePoint Maturity Model, I think of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ work on Death and Dying. Yes, that may sound weird, but I find that many technology implementations do through the same phases to some degree. Here are the five stages, as documented on Wikipedia: 1….