I was trying to use a Content Query Web Part in SharePoint 2010 today and display the URL column from a Links list. Oddly, there’s no out of the box style for this. A little Binging, an #SPHelp tweet, and I came to the conclusion that I needed to add a new style to ItemStyles.xsl…
Matt Bramer (@IOnline247) asked me a good question today in the USPJ Academy forums which I needed to think about and do a little searching to answer. That usually makes for a good blog post. I’ve tried to follow your aggregate data source steps in 2010 and I can’t seem to view a data source…
While flying across the country to SPTechCon SFO 2011, I was going through some of my old “blog posts I should do sometime” lists and came across this cool trick. Brendan Horner (@hornerit) shared it with me months ago via Twitter and I socked it away for one of those extra moments. Well, I found…
I’ve probably blogged about this at one point or another somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it. A frequent requirement I get from clients is to add a set of FAQs to a SharePoint site. I always just "borrow" an Announcements list for this. Here’s a look at what columns you might use for…
Yesterday I posted Are Ampersands Stored Differently in SharePoint 2010 Than SharePoint 2007? This one has really gotten me interested. I decided to try calling the Lists Web Service with SPServices to see if there’s a difference in what is returned for the exact same items in SharePoint 2007 versus SharePoint 2010 (post upgrade). Here’s what I…
I’ve always prided myself in building Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) that are bulletproof, meaning they will run and render no matter what. However, I ran into something today which gives me pause. The setup on this is a little complicated, so bear with me. In SharePoint 2007, if you have a Lookup column which is based…
Live and learn. Maybe that’s my mantra. One thing I can tell you is that the first time I come up with a way to do something, it’s rarely the best. If I look at some old code of mine and think it’s perfect, I worry. We all are learning all the time, and it’s…
For whatever reason, Microsoft in its infinite wisdom seems to have removed the ‘Connect to another library…’ link in the Data Source Library in SharePoint Designer 2010. Maybe that capability is hidden somewhere else now, but as my pal Chris Givens pointed out the other day in his Missing Features from SharePoint Designer 2010 post, it’s…
I’ll be doing a publicly available webinar for the USPJ Academy on Monday, 1 November at 1pm EDT called Data View Web Part Unlocked. This webinar will cover similar information to what I showed at SPTechCon last week, which I got a lot of great feedback on. It’ll also be similar to the types of…
The SPXSLT Codeplex Project has been languishing a bit due to a lack of time to focus on it on my part. (See my earlier blog post New CodePlex Project: SharePoint XSL Templates (SPXSLT) for more information on what this project is about.) These XSL templates can be used in your Data View Web Parts…