Laura Rogers over at EndUserSharePoint.com has a new series on the Data View Web Part (DVWP). All of her posts are great, but the Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms one showed me something I didn’t know that I could do with SharePoint Designer just by making some dialog box choices:…
Every blog post I’ve read says it can’t be done, but now I beg to differ! Today I came up with a way to sum calculated columns in SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWPs). It has been bugging me for a long time that I couldn’t do this, and it especially bugged me that everyone…
Trolling the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum is proving to be a great learning experience all around. I see questions I can’t answer which cause me to research them, and hopefully, I’m providing some answers which help others. One of the things I saw over the last few days was a link to…
UltraGC is putting me through my DVWP paces with follow on questions on this topic, but I’m having fun figuring out each additional piece. In parts one and two, I showed how to sum the values by a text column, and then for each person in a Person/Group column. So what if you’d like to…
Here’s a nice little trick to see what’s in the XML stream being returned in a Data View Web Part (DVWP), or any other Web Part where you can specify the XSL. By replacing the <xsl:stylesheet> code in your Web Part (between the <Xsl></Xsl> tags) with the following, you get a simple result set which shows you…