If you’ve ever created custom forms in a SharePoint list’s context, for example: [SiteName]/Lists/[ListName]/MyForm.aspx for a list, or [SiteName]/[DocumentLibrary]/Forms/MyForm.aspx for a Document Library you may have found that your form shows up in the list’s view selector at the upper right of the list pages. If this happens, you may have done what I’ve done…
Laura Rogers over at EndUserSharePoint.com has a new series on the Data View Web Part (DVWP). All of her posts are great, but the Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms one showed me something I didn’t know that I could do with SharePoint Designer just by making some dialog box choices:…
Every blog post I’ve read says it can’t be done, but now I beg to differ! Today I came up with a way to sum calculated columns in SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWPs). It has been bugging me for a long time that I couldn’t do this, and it especially bugged me that everyone…
Trolling the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum is proving to be a great learning experience all around. I see questions I can’t answer which cause me to research them, and hopefully, I’m providing some answers which help others. One of the things I saw over the last few days was a link to…
UltraGC is putting me through my DVWP paces with follow on questions on this topic, but I’m having fun figuring out each additional piece. In parts one and two, I showed how to sum the values by a text column, and then for each person in a Person/Group column. So what if you’d like to…
Here’s a nice little trick to see what’s in the XML stream being returned in a Data View Web Part (DVWP), or any other Web Part where you can specify the XSL. By replacing the <xsl:stylesheet> code in your Web Part (between the <Xsl></Xsl> tags) with the following, you get a simple result set which shows you…
I like using the ddwrt namespace functions, as they give you a lot of power in your DVWP’s XSL. I just found an alternative approach to using the ddwrt:NameChanged function which may make more sense in some situations. I included this approach in an update to my prior post, but it seemed worth a post…
Christian Ståhl left me a good question in another post: Have you tried to ‘formfill’ a SharePoint column for date and time with ‘today’s date’, that would be cool if its possibly? Of course it’s possible! You can pre-fill any columns value based on rules which you decide. There are probably a few common situations:…
In parts one and two on this topic, I gave an overview of SharePoint form validation and gave an example of how you can implement some validation with JavaScript. In this post, I’ll show how you can use more standard .NET validation with a custom form. (Be sure to check out Part 4 as well,…
In my previous post I outlined a few approaches to validation in SharePoint forms. In this post, I’ll give some simple examples of how you might validate some date inputs. For this example, I’m using a little Paid Time Off (PTO) application I built for one of my clients. The basic idea was that the employees…