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…