Today is one of those days where I try to figure out a bunch of odd situations in various places. The oddest was one involving a Data View Web Part (DVWP) I wrote about a year ago. It’s been running just fine ever since – until about a month or so ago. I didn’t hear…
I got an email yesterday from Geoff Oliver. He said he had done something pretty useful with SPServices and wondered if I would be interested in seeing it. I manage about 115 groups in a single site collection…and that number is expected to grow. I found that when a new user came on board or…
The other day I tweeted: It seems hardly an hour goes by in the day when I don't see something that could be more efficient – with no cost in jobs. — Marc D Anderson (@sympmarc) October 12, 2011 Dan Dragnea called me on it, fairly enough: @sympmarc sorry, I was curious how increased efficiency…
The conference continues along at breakneck speed toward tomorrow’s wrap up. I’ve noticed a few themes I thought were worth recording. As with almost all SharePoint events, I still see an overabundance of sessions focused on the technology side of SharePoint and not enough sessions focused on the so-called “business” side. The technology shouldn’t even…
The keynotes this morning at SPC11 were great Microsoft marketing. We heard about all of the hopes and dreams the product team has (probably driven to a large degree by the Marketing folks) for SharePoint use and adoption. We heard that Office365 is taking off like gangbusters and solves a whole class of somewhat unidentified…
Anyone who follows this blog or hears me speak at conferences knows that I am a *huge* fan of the Data View Web Part (DVWP). A good friend sent me this quick question in an email today: Content query webpart vs data view wp? When would you use content query over data view? Here was…
This is one of those things that I’m amazed I haven’t run into before. Perhaps I did in the past and wrote it off to my own lack of understanding. It turns out that this is a known, if rarely mentioned, limitation not only for Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) but also Content Query Web…
Carlos Nunes-Ueno posted some XSL you can use in a DVWP to the SPXSLT Codeplex Project a while back which allows you to easily utilize the jQueryUI accordion and tabs functions. I asked him if he’d mind if I did a blog post on it, and he agreed. (If you happen to read the thread,…
Yes, that title says using jQueryUI on InfoPath forms in SharePoint. InfoPath forms are fantastic, except when they just aren’t quite able to do what you want. While InfoPath can help you take your SharePoint list forms to a whole new level, there may be times when you want to add some behavior to those…
In case you missed my Middle Tier Magic: The SPSTCDC Web Site Speakers and Sessions Pages webinar which I did a little over a week ago with Dux Sy (@meetdux), I just wanted to do a quick post about it. The webinar was my “session” for SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (SPSTCDC) since I wasn’t able…