This is a little one, but still really useful. There may be times that you need to add Web Parts to the default SharePoint list forms and you aren’t allowed to use SharePoint Designer. The most common reason you might want to do this is to add a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to the…
I was going to try to leave a comment in the teeny little box at the bottom of Mark’s post entitled I get by with a little help from jQuery and SPServices…, but I realized that I wouldn’t be able to post my code suggestions there so that they were readable, so I opted for…
I got one of those “red alert”, “all hands on deck” emails this morning. Someone was trying to find all of the Document Libraries in a Site Collection with a certain name that had at least one item. They were trying to solve some specific client problem (I know not what!) and it was a…
I got a question via email today, the answer to which seemed generally useful: While you’re not as cool as Old Spice guy (sorry, nobody is that cool) you are the uber CQWP guy. Enough ego stroking this morning? Anyways, quick question. Any idea how to display a custom message in the CQWP when you…
I got a ping yesterday from someone who had come across one of my old posts about Displaying the First N Words of a Long Rich Text Column with XSL. While the bits and pieces are there in the post, without a decent knowledge of XSL, it wasn’t obvious to them how you’d actually using the XSL templates. …
My pal Christophe Humbert at PathToSharePoint.com forwarded me a question from one of his readers earlier today. I didn’t know the answer, but it intrigued me enough to track down the answer. Something that a lot of people don’t realize is that every List View Web Part (LVWP) you use in your SharePoint pages contains…
This is one of those “How could I have been so stupid?” things. I like to tell all of you about these in the hopes that if you read the post, it’ll lodge somewhere in the back of your mind and the next time you find yourself cursing and unable to figure some silly thing…
It’s always interesting to me what people decide to write to me about directly versus in forums or as comments here on my blog. Here’s one that I think is definitely of general interest that I got today. I’ve edited a little and scrubbed a few things out of it, as it’s clear that the…
I was looking through the incoming links here on my blog tonight, and I noticed this one: Middle Tier (un método alternativo para desarrollar en SharePoint). Well, that was interesting enough to click on, for sure! What it led me to was a Spanish post which is basically a brief paraphrasing of The Middle Tier…
My white paper, The Middle Tier Manifesto: An Alternative Approach to Development with Microsoft SharePoint (see my prior post) has been garnering a decent amount of attention over the last few days, as I hoped it would. I’m enjoying the discussions it is provoking, as the discussions were the whole point in the first place. I felt…