Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are still my favorite tool in my SharePoint toolbox. Whenever I can use them to get the server to do the heavy lifting before the page is rendered, I do. jQuery and all of the fancy template libraries out there are grand, but in most cases it introduces a lag for…
Managed Metadata columns are so cool and so nasty at the same time. If you want to display the value of a Managed Metadata column in a SharePoint Designer workflow, you get a horrible representation of it like ‘TermText|ba7e2a4f-6602-47a8-aa81-bca54756a356’. The only solution I know for this is the one in the comment from Kristina P…
[important]If you’re interested in this topic, also see my follow up post.[/important] Yesterday I posted in Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013 Preview for IT Professionals forum about my concern that that the Design View (and by extension, the Split View in case you were wondering) is no longer available in SharePoint Designer 2013. There are a lot…
I could probably write an entire book on the strange things that SharePoint Designer does, but I don’t have time for that. Instead, it’s yet another blog post. Today I was adding some Data View Web Parts (DWVPs) to a page, and I took the shortcut of copying and pasting the code of one to…
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…
Anyone who follows this blog or hears me speak at conferences knows that I am a *huge* fan of the Data View Web Part (DVWP). A good friend sent me this quick question in an email today: Content query webpart vs data view wp? When would you use content query over data view? Here was…
I just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project with a few minor changes. I’ve added a new template called GetUserNames. It’s very similar to GetUserIDs, except that it parses out the user names (rather than IDs) from a Person or Group column value. It requires the GetUserName template to function. Both GetUserNames…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-14″>: As of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector. This was actually “required” in previous versions of jQuery, but not enforced. </UPDATE> Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… A little while ago, I noticed that a fellow named Rob Doyle was asking some interesting questions about working with workflows…
There are times when I’ve built up a page with complex Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) which take a *really* long time to load in SharePoint Designer 2007. The usual reason for this is that I’m using a Web Service as a DataSource which returns a large amount of data or that I’ve got many…
For whatever reason, Microsoft in its infinite wisdom seems to have removed the ‘Connect to another library…’ link in the Data Source Library in SharePoint Designer 2010. Maybe that capability is hidden somewhere else now, but as my pal Chris Givens pointed out the other day in his Missing Features from SharePoint Designer 2010 post, it’s…