Many of the gradients that you see in the default SharePoint branding (that dreaded blue and orange that everyone wants to change) are created by using an image that is the appropriate height and one pixel wide. The images are used as the background-image in the various CSS classes with background-repeat set to repeat-x. This…
If you’ve been using Office 2007 on a Vista machine for as long as I have, you may have just gotten used to the extra credential prompts when you open Office documents from SharePoint 2007. Well, Microsoft considers this a "known issue", but it’s not clear when it may be resolved for good, though it…
Serge van den Oever wrote this MSDN article about the functions that are available in the ddwrt namespace. He wrote it for SharePoint 2003 and posted it to MSDN in October 2005, but I’ve never found a newer or better reference for MOSS. I’ve used Serge’s postings many times to help solve challenges, and I…
In a recent post, I pointed out a way to roll up calendar entries using the Data View Web Part (DVWP). That approach works if you have a fixed set of calendars for which you’d like to display the roll-up. But what if you’d like the roll-up to be dynamic, i.e., have it display events…
Especially when you are using Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), but anytime you are using a Web Part that allows custom XLS to control display, you may want to do a test on dates. Doing this is relatively easy if you know a few of the ddwrt namespace date functions. In this example, let’s say…