This is a little one, but a time saver all the same. I can never seem to find the “right” navigational route to the page which shows the permission levels (I think of them as roles and the page name backs me up!) in SharePoint. It’s the page at /_layouts/role.aspx. So: http://[yourservername]/_layouts/role.aspx From this page,…
Another name drop and tip ‘o the hat to Mauro Cardarelli for bringing this one to my attention. SharePoint Saturday is coming to Boston. I’m going to see if I can’t get in as a speaker to talk about my SharePoint Designer DVWP stuff. Working title: Developing with SharePoint Designer: The Middle Tier, Focus on Data…
My colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted about this the other day: By now, you have probably heard about Microsoft’s decision on the future of PerformancePoint Server (Microsoft Business Intelligence Announcement Q&A). Kudos to friend Chris Webb for breaking the news… at least to me! For PerformancePoint jocks, this is probably bad news, but as a SharePoint…
I had a question from a colleague today about how to do an XSL transformation of some search results. Here’s the query: Basically, I want to do the following in XSL: Parse a managed property, urlEncoded, that has the format of http://[doc library]/[filename] to separate path and filename Take that prefix and concatenate it with…
I think I’ve found an interesting (if you think things like this are interesting) difference between Document Libraries and Custom lists when it comes to the use of Site Columns. I had some filtering code in a DVWP that ought to have worked the same way on both a Custom List and a Document Library,…