UPDATE 2010-08-26: I’ve added this template to the SPXSLT project on Codeplex. There’s a bit more explanation there. UPDATE 2010-04-27: Shalin Parmar pointed out in a comment below that I had a bug in the template where the separator would only be displayed between the first and second values. I’ve made a change to the template to…
Laura Rogers over at EndUserSharePoint.com has a new series on the Data View Web Part (DVWP). All of her posts are great, but the Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms one showed me something I didn’t know that I could do with SharePoint Designer just by making some dialog box choices:…
Every blog post I’ve read says it can’t be done, but now I beg to differ! Today I came up with a way to sum calculated columns in SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWPs). It has been bugging me for a long time that I couldn’t do this, and it especially bugged me that everyone…
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…