I’m on vacation this week in Topsail, NC with my extended family. It’s hot as Hades outside, and as long as my family doesn’t drag me outside to the beach, I’ll be catching up on the SharePoint-oriented blogs I try to watch. (I love the beach, but at 96 degrees, I can only take so…
As anyone who follows my blog (or is unfortunate enough to get roped into a conversation with me about it) knows, I’m a HUGE fan of the Data View Web Part (aka Data Form Web Part or DVWP). Chris O’Brien has written two great posts (so far) about using just the SPDataSource to get at…
If you have a parent/child relationship between two lists, you will undoubtedly want your users to be able to create child items without having to type in the common key or ID. I’m not going to go into the full architecture of this here, but here’s an important part of the process. Let’s say that…
Here’s another one of those things that’s so obvious that you’ve probably never noticed it. When you configure a view, one of the sections on the page is the Style section (fourth from the bottom in most cases, collapsed). I’d never really looked at them but they all look like they would be useful in…
I was trying to save a site as a template today including the content, and I got the error ‘Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file’. I found a workaround on Ragav Jagannathan’s site: http://ragavj.blogspot.com/2008/02/failure-decompressing-data-from-cabinet.html …This error "Failure decompressing data from a cabinet file" can be avoided by using the stsadm command line tool of…