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,…
Laura Rogers over at EndUserSharePoint.com has a new series on the Data View Web Part (DVWP). All of her posts are great, but the Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms one showed me something I didn’t know that I could do with SharePoint Designer just by making some dialog box choices:…
Every blog post I’ve read says it can’t be done, but now I beg to differ! Today I came up with a way to sum calculated columns in SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWPs). It has been bugging me for a long time that I couldn’t do this, and it especially bugged me that everyone…
Google has announced a new open source development platform called Google Wave, which will be available next year. Wave is brought to you be the geniuses who originally developed Google Maps, Lars and Jens Rasmussen. If you watch the Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009, one of the questions which ought to come…
Trolling the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum is proving to be a great learning experience all around. I see questions I can’t answer which cause me to research them, and hopefully, I’m providing some answers which help others. One of the things I saw over the last few days was a link to…
If you watch the blogs and such much, you’ve probably heard about this bug, but I figured I’d echo it as well. I’ll let the official announcement speak for itself: Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2 We take product quality seriously and make every effort to avoid and resolve issues that adversely impact our…
UltraGC is putting me through my DVWP paces with follow on questions on this topic, but I’m having fun figuring out each additional piece. In parts one and two, I showed how to sum the values by a text column, and then for each person in a Person/Group column. So what if you’d like to…