I’ve posted about this application before. It helps my client manage their inventory of sports tickets which they can use with their clients and vendors. They have a regulatory reporting requirement to maintain information about who uses the tickets and what their relationship is. In this case, we wanted to be able to count the…
If you have a parent/child relationship between two lists, you will undoubtedly want your users to be able to create child items without having to type in the common key or ID. I’m not going to go into the full architecture of this here, but here’s an important part of the process. Let’s say that…
If you set up a sort in a DVWP that has an aggregate Data Source, you’ll need to use the <xsl:sort> tag. If you want to sort by a list column that is numeric, the tag: <xsl:sort select=”@JobFamilyRank” order=”ascending”/> will sort your data like: 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 20, 21, 3… That is, SharePoint…
Serge van den Oever wrote this MSDN article about the functions that are available in the ddwrt namespace. He wrote it for SharePoint 2003 and posted it to MSDN in October 2005, but I’ve never found a newer or better reference for MOSS. I’ve used Serge’s postings many times to help solve challenges, and I…
In a recent post, I pointed out a way to roll up calendar entries using the Data View Web Part (DVWP). That approach works if you have a fixed set of calendars for which you’d like to display the roll-up. But what if you’d like the roll-up to be dynamic, i.e., have it display events…