Pre-Populating SharePoint List Item Values Using Query String Variables

A client of ours was having trouble getting this idea to work based on a post he found on the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog.  I took a look and got it to work nicely in a test situation.  This is a nice trick, as it can help to pre-populate metadata that your users might…

Firing an Event When a User Selects a Value from a Data View Web Part Dropdown

I was skimming my old postings, and I realized that in a previous post, I had said that I would post about firing an event when a user selects a value from a DVWP dropdown.  Better late than never, I guess. When you create a dropdown type of DVWP through the UI in SharePoint Designer, the…

Telerik RADEditor for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)

I’ve been working with the Telerik RADEditor for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) for a while now.  It is a wonderful substitute for the out-of-the-box Rich Text Editor (RTE) that comes with SharePoint.  It is highly configurable without writing any code, but if you want to get fancy, it is a well engineered ASP.NET application that is…