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. …
I was working with an aspx page in SharePoint Designer and wanted to copy a Data View Web Part (DVWP) and use it again on the same page with different parameters. (Same data source, just different filtering.) Every time I did so, everything rendered just fine in Designer, but when I went to save the…
Yes, let’s call it a feature. Couldn’t be a bug, could it? If you set a Web Part Zone to have a side-to-side (rather than the default top-to-bottom), i.e., horizontal layout, everything looks fine in SharePoint Designer. However, when you go to your browser and look at the result, there will be a new table…
A Data View Web Part (DVWP) that displays a dropdown can be a useful tool to drive navigation. See my previous post about showing content archives (Displaying an Archive for a SharePoint List) as an example. If you have a decent number of items in the list you are using, you will likely end up…
I wanted to get at the site name to use in a Data View Web Part’s (DVWP) filter. An example is where you have a site per project, with the project number being the site name and you want to based various filters on that value. To do this, you can set up a parameter…
If you’ve done much work using custom forms in SharePoint, you’ve probably run into the {generate-id()} bugaboo. For reasons that I’ve not been able to determine, if you use an id attribute in any HTML element, SharePoint Designer adds the {generate-id()} string to the end of the name you’ve set. Here’s an example. If you…
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])…