I ran across a post over at the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum which intrigued me enough to want to figure it out. The question was about showing subtotals for a given column’s values, with the results sorted by the subtotal, descending. In other words, for a list with these items: Title Amount…
Christian Ståhl left me a good question in another post: Have you tried to ‘formfill’ a SharePoint column for date and time with ‘today’s date’, that would be cool if its possibly? Of course it’s possible! You can pre-fill any columns value based on rules which you decide. There are probably a few common situations:…
In parts one and two on this topic, I gave an overview of SharePoint form validation and gave an example of how you can implement some validation with JavaScript. In this post, I’ll show how you can use more standard .NET validation with a custom form. (Be sure to check out Part 4 as well,…
I had some questions today from a respected colleague about when to use separate Site Collections, and I sorta liked my response, so I’m going to foist it off on you, too. The gist of the questions was this: They are fighting the battle of site collections here (IT wants several) which of course will…
In my previous post I outlined a few approaches to validation in SharePoint forms. In this post, I’ll give some simple examples of how you might validate some date inputs. For this example, I’m using a little Paid Time Off (PTO) application I built for one of my clients. The basic idea was that the employees…