I’ve frequently been asked if it is possible to display only the current month’s documents in a SharePoint list. There is no obvious way to do this, as the filtering mechanism in a view will not allow you to specify a formula as its criteria. The trick is to create a calculated column on the…
I just ran across a pair of postings on this from Ramon Scott and Kanwal Khipple (on the SharePointBuzz blog). Almost every client that I’ve worked with on their Intranet has wanted some sort of variation on this, calling it the Company Directory, the Facebook, or something similar. The way I’ve always done it was…
Every once in a while, when I am explaining something about technology to one of my clients, it seems as though it might be of general use, and I turn it into a blog post. This is basic stuff to anyone who knows much about SharePoint, but maybe it will be useful to someone. Here’s…
I’m used to using flyouts in the tabbed navigation in MOSS to enhance the navigation capabilities. (See my earlier post on this to find out how to make it happen.) Today I wanted to do the same thing in a WSS master page, but just changing the MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels value wasn’t working. I found this post…
I was skimming my old postings, and I realized that in a previous post, I had said that I would post about firing an event when a user selects a value from a DVWP dropdown. Better late than never, I guess. When you create a dropdown type of DVWP through the UI in SharePoint Designer, the…