Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:template> Think of a template as a subroutine. It’s a unit of XSL to which you pass control. A template in a Data View Web Part’s (DVWP’s) XSL is a really important “unit of measure”. When you first drop a DVWP on the page and configure it, SharePoint Designer will automagically create…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are, to me, the most powerful feature in SharePoint. You’ve probably heard them called the Swiss Army Knife of SharePoint and there’s really very little that you can’t display with them if you understand how they work. But understanding the inner working of DVWPs requires knowledge of…
I’ve been working on trying to improve the performance of some DVWPs I wrote about a year ago as part of an application that I inherrited from others. (Was that tactful enough?) One of the things that I’ve been trying to do is to filter on the LookupId of a Lookup column, but I couldn’t…
UPDATE 2009-10-19: I solved this for real in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services function called $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID. Feel free to read this post, but this is the solution you’re looking for. The most visited post on my blog, hands down, is the one on Redirect to Another Page from NewForm.aspx with the New Item’s ID. …
Over in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization Forum, I was answering some questions about how to best provide filtering capabilities on a List View Web Part. McGeeky wanted to put filtering dropdowns at the top of the page to "improve the user experience". My stock answer to this is to user Data View…