As usual, while looking for something else, I found a great trick. This one is from Maarten Eekels. I’ve tried to figure out how to do this several times before, and Maarten shows a nice, simple, elegant solution for it. Check out his blog post. Technorati tags: SharePoint, Data View Web Parts
Have I ever mentioned that I’m a big fan of Data View Web Parts (DVWPs)? Well, yes I am. I find them indispensable to display the contents of lists in a nice, clean format rather than staying with the out-of-the-box views that the list provides. One issue with this is that Search and RSS want…
I’ve looked for quite a while now for a good reference for what formulas are available to me when I create a calculated column in SharePoint. Today I think I stumbled on the easy answer: Excel. Here’s a simple example. I wanted to return the year for the Created date. When I just used: =YEAR([Created])…
I’ve been working with the Telerik RADEditor for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) for a while now. It is a wonderful substitute for the out-of-the-box Rich Text Editor (RTE) that comes with SharePoint. It is highly configurable without writing any code, but if you want to get fancy, it is a well engineered ASP.NET application that is…
If you’ve read much of my blog in the past, you know that I’m a big fan of the Data View Web Part (DVWP). It’s my tool of choice in many cases to customize display of content from lists. Many people are more aware of the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) because it can be…