Over at the USPJ Academy, we’re really excited to finally be able to talk publicly about the partnership we’ve formed with InnerWorkings. We’ve been working hard with them over the last few months to get our content and platform capabilities integrated with theirs to deliver our classes to their customer base. We’re proud of our…
As I’ve written in the past, there are several types of “dropdowns” in SharePoint forms. Briefly, there are: “Simple” dropdowns – These are plain, old HTML selects; the type of dropdown you are most familiar with on the Web. SharePoint renders one of these when there are fewer than 20 options. “Complex” dropdowns – SharePoint…
Sometimes in a SharePoint form, you might want to include a link which takes the user off to do something else. Maybe it’s to look at another list or some other page; it doesn’t really matter. If you’ve got a nice, fancy customized form using a DVWP, you can make that link a little smarter…
This post was cross-posted on NothingButSharePoint.com on 26 April, 2011. This one may seem so obvious as to not merit a post or two, but I get questions on it often enough and I realized that if I had posts to refer to, it’d be helpful. I don’t see the CEWP as evil like many…
I just went through all of the “value-added” functions in SPServices and updated their certifications for SharePoint 2010. They were really behind the times and many were incorrect. Almost everything works great in SharePoint 2010, though there are a few functions that have some caveats. I wanted to make these updates as part of getting ready for…
I was trying to use a Content Query Web Part in SharePoint 2010 today and display the URL column from a Links list. Oddly, there’s no out of the box style for this. A little Binging, an #SPHelp tweet, and I came to the conclusion that I needed to add a new style to ItemStyles.xsl…
I’ve probably blogged about this at one point or another somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it. A frequent requirement I get from clients is to add a set of FAQs to a SharePoint site. I always just "borrow" an Announcements list for this. Here’s a look at what columns you might use for…
Yesterday I posted Are Ampersands Stored Differently in SharePoint 2010 Than SharePoint 2007? This one has really gotten me interested. I decided to try calling the Lists Web Service with SPServices to see if there’s a difference in what is returned for the exact same items in SharePoint 2007 versus SharePoint 2010 (post upgrade). Here’s what I…
I’ve always prided myself in building Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) that are bulletproof, meaning they will run and render no matter what. However, I ran into something today which gives me pause. The setup on this is a little complicated, so bear with me. In SharePoint 2007, if you have a Lookup column which is based…