I got a quick question today from a client asking how to roll up blog posts. He wanted to display the latest blog posts from all of the blogs which executives have in the Site Collection, which is used as the organization’s Intranet. He had the idea right, using a Data View Web Part (DVWP)…
Another question came to me in email today that I thought was worth sharing, along with my answer. The email referred to my post about Alpha Selection of List Items in a Data View Web Part (DVWP), but it’s relevant to many Middle Tier development tasks. I hope this email comes to you in good…
I find myself retyping these two of my DVWP best practices over and over again in some form or another in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum, so I thought I’d capture them here for posterity. SharePoint Designer Generates Errors It’s not unusual when you are making quite a few changes to a…
Here’s a great little trick from an MSDN Forum thread I was trying to help out in. Thanks to Playerkiller for this one. Suppose you’d like just a single DVWP to display numbers (either currency or regular numbers) in a different locale than the host site. This trick lets you do just that. Prerequisites: Numbers…
Anyone who follows my blog or knows me professionally knows that I love working with the Data View Web Part (DVWP) in SharePoint. It’s the Swiss Army knife of Web Parts, it’s a dessert topping, it’s a floor wax. Yes, it even can help you graph your data. I’ve posted before about this technique for…