I ran across a post over at the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum which intrigued me enough to want to figure it out. The question was about showing subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending. In other words, for a list with these items: Title Amount…
Christian Ståhl left me a good question in another post: Have you tried to ‘formfill’ a SharePoint column for date and time with ‘today’s date’, that would be cool if its possibly? Of course it’s possible! You can pre-fill any columns value based on rules which you decide. There are probably a few common situations:…
Sometimes RFPs crack me up. (Hey, it’s Saturday, and I can have a laugh, right?) I got a copy of a new RFP to respond to today, and it contains the following: The responses to this RFQ will be evaluated based on the criteria listed below. The criteria are listed in descending order of importance…
In parts one and two on this topic, I gave an overview of SharePoint form validation and gave an example of how you can implement some validation with JavaScript. In this post, I’ll show how you can use more standard .NET validation with a custom form. (Be sure to check out Part 4 as well,…
I had some questions today from a respected colleague about when to use separate Site Collections, and I sorta liked my response, so I’m going to foist it off on you, too. The gist of the questions was this: They are fighting the battle of site collections here (IT wants several) which of course will…
In my previous post I outlined a few approaches to validation in SharePoint forms. In this post, I’ll give some simple examples of how you might validate some date inputs. For this example, I’m using a little Paid Time Off (PTO) application I built for one of my clients. The basic idea was that the employees…
There are many occasions where you might like to do some validation on NewForm.aspx and/or EditForm.aspx in SharePoint beyond the simple column by column validation which the form provides automagically. For instance, if you have two dates, you might want to ensure that the second is after the first, or you may want the entry…
In an article posted last week, the SharePoint team gave some more specifics on what we should expect for SharePoint 2010. (Why do I keep accidentally typing 90210?) According to the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog (and who would know better), SharePoint 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit SQL Server. Also, Internet Explorer…
(A la Capital One: “What’s in YOUR wallet?” No, that’s not a plug.) I thought I’d do an up-to-date share of a few tools that I’ve been using lately that I can’t live without; the things that I give icon space to on my Vista desktop. GIMP – Think of GIMP as a free version…
I’ve just gotten pretty used to my Kindle 2, and Amazon goes and comes out with something better, the Kindle DX. I should expect these things, but still, it’s irksome. I got the news over at Blog Kindle, which is a nice blog to watch if you are Kindle crazy. There are even some Kindle…