Here’s a nice little trick to see what’s in the XML stream being returned in a Data View Web Part (DVWP), or any other Web Part where you can specify the XSL. By replacing the <xsl:stylesheet> code in your Web Part (between the <Xsl></Xsl> tags) with the following, you get a simple result set which shows you…
In a post the other day, I showed some code to show subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending. This worked great for most types of columns as the groups, but Person/Group columns can be a bit problematic. This is due to the fact that there is a…
That Christophe guy over at Path to SharePoint never rests! I just spotted his post on his new Easy Tabs Web Part. I haven’t dug under the covers on it yet, but Christophe’s stuff is always nice. The Easy Tabs Web Part is a Content Editor Web Part with some JavaScript. When added to a…
I like using the ddwrt namespace functions, as they give you a lot of power in your DVWP’s XSL. I just found an alternative approach to using the ddwrt:NameChanged function which may make more sense in some situations. I included this approach in an update to my prior post, but it seemed worth a post…
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…