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…
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…
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…
A Data View Web Part (DVWP) that displays a dropdown can be a useful tool to drive navigation. See my previous post about showing content archives (Displaying an Archive for a SharePoint List) as an example. If you have a decent number of items in the list you are using, you will likely end up…