I got an email through my Contact page overnight that I thought I’d share some bits of as well as some of my response. Please let me introduce myself, I am a SharePoint Designer (note ‘Designer’ not developer :)) and my role is to develop our corporate Intranet using MOSS 2007. It is up and…
Page layouts are great functionality that comes along with the Publishing Infrastructure in MOSS. They allow you to enforce a consistent structure and even consistent content in pages which you allow your users to create. However, sometimes (due to the powers that be), you may have access to a site with pages based on page…
I find myself retyping these two of my DVWP best practices over and over again in some form or another in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum, so I thought I’d capture them here for posterity. SharePoint Designer Generates Errors It’s not unusual when you are making quite a few changes to a…
Here’s a great little trick from an MSDN Forum thread I was trying to help out in. Thanks to Playerkiller for this one. Suppose you’d like just a single DVWP to display numbers (either currency or regular numbers) in a different locale than the host site. This trick lets you do just that. Prerequisites: Numbers…
Anyone who follows my blog or knows me professionally knows that I love working with the Data View Web Part (DVWP) in SharePoint. It’s the Swiss Army knife of Web Parts, it’s a dessert topping, it’s a floor wax. Yes, it even can help you graph your data. I’ve posted before about this technique for…