Another name drop and tip ‘o the hat to Mauro Cardarelli for bringing this one to my attention. SharePoint Saturday is coming to Boston. I’m going to see if I can’t get in as a speaker to talk about my SharePoint Designer DVWP stuff. Working title: Developing with SharePoint Designer: The Middle Tier, Focus on Data…
My colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted about this the other day: By now, you have probably heard about Microsoft’s decision on the future of PerformancePoint Server (Microsoft Business Intelligence Announcement Q&A). Kudos to friend Chris Webb for breaking the news… at least to me! For PerformancePoint jocks, this is probably bad news, but as a SharePoint…
I had a question from a colleague today about how to do an XSL transformation of some search results. Here’s the query: Basically, I want to do the following in XSL: Parse a managed property, urlEncoded, that has the format of http://[doc library]/[filename] to separate path and filename Take that prefix and concatenate it with…
I think I’ve found an interesting (if you think things like this are interesting) difference between Document Libraries and Custom lists when it comes to the use of Site Columns. I had some filtering code in a DVWP that ought to have worked the same way on both a Custom List and a Document Library,…
I’ve written quite a few recursive XSL templates recently, so I thought I’d do a post explaining what they are and how useful they can be. On my current project, we’re using many Lookup Columns in Content Types which are based on items in Custom Lists. These Lookup Columns also are almost all multi-select, meaning that…
Once you have your SharePoint server up and running and begin to build up a corpus of content, you may find that certain documents aren’t turning up in searches. This may be due to not having the appropriate iFilters installed. From the Wikipedia entry: IFilters are plugins that allow the Windows Indexing Service and the…
When you want to display blog posts and announcements with DVWPs in your SharePoint Site Collection, you usually don’t want to display the full posts, but just enough to indicate what the item is about and to let the user know if they should click to see more. An example might be showing the last 3…
In an email from Microsoft the other day, I saw an offer for Microsoft Online Services and was curious about what’s available and what the pricing might be. After navigating through the too byzantine process to get to it, I was able to see the pricing below. Here’s the blurb on the Business Productivity Online…
Having recently moved my blog here to WordPress from Live Spaces, I’ve been cleaning things up, repointing internal links, retagging, etc. I’ve found a couple of things that are useful and I wanted to pass them along. One of the things that I wanted to do is to see if I had any dead links…
Here’s a head-scratcher for you… In a SharePoint Document Library where you have Versioning and Check In/Check Out enabled, when you first upload a document, the “save” button on EditForm.aspx is labeled “Check In” and saves and also checks the document in (good). On a subsequent edit of the metadata (properties), you’re forced to check…