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…
This post is copied from my Live Spaces blog, and was the last post I’ll make there. I’m finally biting the bullet and moving this blog. While I’ve had it parked at Live Spaces for over two years now, I’m just not seeing Live Spaces keeping up with the enhancements that others are offering. After…
I recently went through the exercise of setting up Content Deployment in a client environment based on the information in an excellent post from Jackie Bodine. (Looking at it with the Way Back Machine let me see the images, which were broken in the current post.) For this client (as with almost all clients that…