This post is based on another interesting question which I answered over in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum. Here’s the question from SLF05: …basically, the concept of customized vs. un-customized [object within SharePoint] isn’t 100% clear. When it comes to chrome/layout/CSS type files, it’s best to keep [things] un-customized for various reasons…
Laura Rogers over at EndUserSharePoint.com has a new series on the Data View Web Part (DVWP). All of her posts are great, but the Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms one showed me something I didn’t know that I could do with SharePoint Designer just by making some dialog box choices:…
Every blog post I’ve read says it can’t be done, but now I beg to differ! Today I came up with a way to sum calculated columns in SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWPs). It has been bugging me for a long time that I couldn’t do this, and it especially bugged me that everyone…
Google has announced a new open source development platform called Google Wave, which will be available next year. Wave is brought to you be the geniuses who originally developed Google Maps, Lars and Jens Rasmussen. If you watch the Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009, one of the questions which ought to come…
Trolling the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum is proving to be a great learning experience all around. I see questions I can’t answer which cause me to research them, and hopefully, I’m providing some answers which help others. One of the things I saw over the last few days was a link to…
If you watch the blogs and such much, you’ve probably heard about this bug, but I figured I’d echo it as well. I’ll let the official announcement speak for itself: Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2 We take product quality seriously and make every effort to avoid and resolve issues that adversely impact our…
UltraGC is putting me through my DVWP paces with follow on questions on this topic, but I’m having fun figuring out each additional piece. In parts one and two, I showed how to sum the values by a text column, and then for each person in a Person/Group column. So what if you’d like to…
Here’s a nice little trick to see what’s in the XML stream being returned in a Data View Web Part (DVWP), or any other Web Part where you can specify the XSL. By replacing the <xsl:stylesheet> code in your Web Part (between the <Xsl></Xsl> tags) with the following, you get a simple result set which shows you…
In a post the other day, I showed some code to show subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending. This worked great for most types of columns as the groups, but Person/Group columns can be a bit problematic. This is due to the fact that there is a…
That Christophe guy over at Path to SharePoint never rests! I just spotted his post on his new Easy Tabs Web Part. I haven’t dug under the covers on it yet, but Christophe’s stuff is always nice. The Easy Tabs Web Part is a Content Editor Web Part with some JavaScript. When added to a…