It’s truly fun what you can find out on the Web to help out you these days. Here’s another one: a "fake Latin" generator. You know that unintelligible text that you see in content when you’re looking at a demo? Well, it’s there on purpose to prevent you from focusing on the text and instead…
Say you have a list of people (or rooms or products or whatever) where you would like to let the user specify the first letter of the person and then show them all of the people’s names which start with that letter. Doable, of course, and a nice little recursive XSL template can get you…
If you’ve been around for a while and/or you subscribe to Consumer Reports Magazine, you know what Harvey Balls are. They are little circles with varying amounts filled in which can be used to represent a level of completeness, sophistication, match to a standard, etc. They are a good replacement for numerical scales in many…
UPDATE 2009-10-19: I solved this for real in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services function called $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID. Feel free to read this post, but this is the solution you’re looking for. UPDATE 2009-10-01: I’ve posted an update on this idea. It’s possible to simplify the interstitial page using the Web Services from the jQuery Library for…
UPDATE 2010-08-26: I’ve added this template to the SPXSLT project on Codeplex. There’s a bit more explanation there. UPDATE 2010-04-27: Shalin Parmar pointed out in a comment below that I had a bug in the template where the separator would only be displayed between the first and second values. I’ve made a change to the template to…
Here’s another case where looking at my blog stats gave me an idea for a post. There were several searches about the apostrophe character which led people to my blog today: sharepoint data view apostrophe dataview apostrophe problem sharepoint The apostrophe character (‘ or ' or ASCII character 39) is a bit of a trickster…
If you’ve ever created custom forms in a SharePoint list’s context, for example: [SiteName]/Lists/[ListName]/MyForm.aspx for a list, or [SiteName]/[DocumentLibrary]/Forms/MyForm.aspx for a Document Library you may have found that your form shows up in the list’s view selector at the upper right of the list pages. If this happens, you may have done what I’ve done…
This post is based on another interesting question which I answered over in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum. Here’s the question from SLF05: …basically, the concept of customized vs. un-customized [object within SharePoint] isn’t 100% clear. When it comes to chrome/layout/CSS type files, it’s best to keep [things] un-customized for various reasons…
With Microsoft’s Bing launched today, I’ve been spending some time trying to understand the whole online advertising thing better. I’m trying to figure it out using a $50 budget to advertise our company with Microsoft adCenter. The principles look similar to Google‘s, but are undoubtedly different enough under the covers to keep Microsoft up at night. …
In case you’ve been sleeping, Bing is the new brand for Live Search and Live Maps. I guess Microsoft got tired of Google being the search verb and figured that Bing might work, too. I know that I’ve found it difficult to say “I Live Searched for…”. “I Binged for…” certainly sounds better! For some yuks,…