As long as I’ve been working with Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), I’ve pretty much always done my “joins” manually by diving into the XSL. When I started working with DVWPs, there wasn’t much available to tell me how to do things, so I just made it up based on what worked. Today I saw…
Over the last few days, I’ve been doing some more work with jQuery. It’s really a very cool abstraction on JavaScript, but it does take some getting used to. My latest challenge is to understand .animate. It’s pretty straightforward, but cross-browser issues can make it tricky. I’m having “special” trouble with opacity in Internet Explorer. …
I posted last September about Date Calculations in a DVWP. In that post, I pointed out Andy Lewis’ great post about how to do Filtering and Formatting with Date Values over at the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog. I’ve been answering quite a few questions about date arithmetic over at the MSDN forums lately, so…
UPDATE 2009-08-26: We’ve translated this logic into our jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. I *strongly* suggest that you look at that as an option, as it is far more robust. And free! In my post last week entitled Cascading Dropdown Columns in a SharePoint Form – Part 1, I showed how to create cascading dropdowns,…
When I’m working on a project, we almost always use a SharePoint Task List to manage our outstanding tasks. I’ve seen many people try to overcomplicate this process with complex workflows, roles, and permissions, but to me some simple tweaks and conventions to the basic Task List get you much further along and make life…