I needed to put sets of news articles into buckets in a list so that I could allow users to filter based on the time period in which the articles were published. To do this, I created a calculated column as a Site Column (for reusability). Column name: Archive Period Calculation: =IF([Publish Date]<([Today]-365),”Year” & TEXT(YEAR([Publish…
It’s been a few quiet months here on my blog, as I have been hunkered down, knee deep in XSL and custom SharePoint pages for a client project. All of that work has given me some insights on how those mysterious aspx pages that SharePoint generates actually work, and I thought it would be a…
I know that everyone and their br/m/other is going to post about this, but Office 2007 SP1 is now available. I’m downloading it as I type, hoping that it will fix some of the small annoyances. (Nothing major, really, just things I’ve learned to work around.) You can download it here. Technorati tags: Office 2007,…
Having worked at Bain & Company for 6 years many moons ago, I still keep an eye on their publications and I occasionally spot something interesting. In June (though I just received a copy from the Bain alumni association), Darrell Rigby and Barbara Bilodeau published the results of their latest survey on management tools and…
The Telerik RADEditor for MOSS is a great add-on that provides enhanced Rich Text Editing within MOSS. (See my previous post: Telerik RADEditor for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)) One of the nice features of the RADEditor is a tool that provides a list of Custom Links from which a user can choose to insert their links. …