There was an interesting question over in the MSDN Forums the other day that I struggled to answer. It was a headscratcher, so I had to figure it out. In the thread, emfuentes27 wanted to know why s/he saw different results in SharePoint Designer than in the browser when using this formula: Not only had…
I’m positive I’ve run into this little issue before, but since I don’t seem to have done a post on it, I stymied myself again. A client of mine spotted a nice post from Ben Tedder (@bentedder) showing how to Create a Classifieds Listing using SharePoint 2010. It uses a bunch of Content Query Web…
I ran across a post over at the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum which intrigued me enough to want to figure it out. The question was about showing subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending. In other words, for a list with these items: Title Amount…
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…
Oftentimes you’d like to mimic the out of the box display capabilities of SharePoint when you create a view using a DVWP (Data View Web Part or Data Form Web Part). One of the things you might like to do is to show the document type icon for the documents in your view. These are…
Serge van den Oever wrote this MSDN article about the functions that are available in the ddwrt namespace. He wrote it for SharePoint 2003 and posted it to MSDN in October 2005, but I’ve never found a newer or better reference for MOSS. I’ve used Serge’s postings many times to help solve challenges, and I…
Especially when you are using Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), but anytime you are using a Web Part that allows custom XLS to control display, you may want to do a test on dates. Doing this is relatively easy if you know a few of the ddwrt namespace date functions. In this example, let’s say…
A Data View Web Part (DVWP) that displays a dropdown can be a useful tool to drive navigation. See my previous post about showing content archives (Displaying an Archive for a SharePoint List) as an example. If you have a decent number of items in the list you are using, you will likely end up…