Odd SharePoint Designer Custom Form Behavior

@workerthread tweeted this today: Really interested to hear if you can reproduce weird #SharePoint Designer custom form behaviour detailed here http://bit.ly/60Tko I ran through the steps Derek outlines, and I do indeed see the odd behavior that he reports.  I’ve never seen this before because this isn’t the usual sequence I go through to create…

Filtering in SharePoint DVWPs with Multiple Lists in the Data Source

Another question from my contact form: Hi Marc. My problem in short is to get a filters to work on columns that holds values from linked tables. For instance I have a column with xsl:value-of select="../../../Products/Rows/Row[@Title=current()/@ProductID]/@ProductGroup" Am at a loss for a way to do it at this point. A hint would be greatly appreciated….

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services v0.2.10 Released

Unfortunately quickly followed by 0.2.10a to fix a quick bug.  But at least it was a quick fix, and driven by someone called mwhite01 trying to actually use SPDisplayRelatedInfo to solve a business requirement. In this release, the main new things are a new function called $().SPServices.SPDebugXMLHttpResult and a slew of new Web Service operations. …

Preserving the Existing Query String When Building a Link in a DVWP

Another question came to me in email today that I thought was worth sharing, along with my answer.  The email referred to my post about Alpha Selection of List Items in a Data View Web Part (DVWP), but it’s relevant to many Middle Tier development tasks. I hope this email comes to you in good…