I think I’ve found an interesting (if you think things like this are interesting) difference between Document Libraries and Custom lists when it comes to the use of Site Columns. I had some filtering code in a DVWP that ought to have worked the same way on both a Custom List and a Document Library,…
When you want to display blog posts and announcements with DVWPs in your SharePoint Site Collection, you usually don’t want to display the full posts, but just enough to indicate what the item is about and to let the user know if they should click to see more. An example might be showing the last 3…
SharePoint has a nice capability on many pages where, if you pass a Query String parameter named Source with a value of a page URL, the user is returned to that page when they are done with the activity. An example would be when a user clicks on an ‘Add new document’ list on a…
I figured out a great little trick for sorting a DVWP-based display based on a column name passed in the Query String. You can see this in action in the default All Items or All Documents views in lists or libraries. When you click on the column headers that allow sorting, the browser is sent…
This is another idea that I was certain I’d posted about long ago, but I can’t seem to find. It’s especially useful if you are developing Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) in one environment and then porting them to another on any sort of frequent basis. When you create a Data Source for a SharePoint…