I’ve just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project, version 0.0.9. In this release, I added one new template called FixAmpersands. FixAmpersands is useful when you want to “join’ two lists in an AggregateDataSource in a Data View Web Part (DVWP) and the column you are uisng as the key may contain ampersands….
I just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project with a few minor changes. I’ve added a new template called GetUserNames. It’s very similar to GetUserIDs, except that it parses out the user names (rather than IDs) from a Person or Group column value. It requires the GetUserName template to function. Both GetUserNames…
The SPXSLT Codeplex Project has been languishing a bit due to a lack of time to focus on it on my part. (See my earlier blog post New CodePlex Project: SharePoint XSL Templates (SPXSLT) for more information on what this project is about.) These XSL templates can be used in your Data View Web Parts…
I got a ping yesterday from someone who had come across one of my old posts about Displaying the First N Words of a Long Rich Text Column with XSL. While the bits and pieces are there in the post, without a decent knowledge of XSL, it wasn’t obvious to them how you’d actually using the XSL templates. …
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… About a month ago, at the suggestion of @iwkid, I created a new Codeplex project called SPXSLT. My goal was to start providing a library of useful XSL templates for people to use in Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) or Content Query Web Parts (CQWPs) in SharePoint. It’s a bit different from most…
I got a DM in HootSuite today from Raymond Mitchell (aka @iwkid): We went back and forth a little, and I ended up creating the SharePoint XSL Templates project. This is an idea I’ve had for a while, but just hadn’t gotten to. Raymond’s prod made me actually do it. Creating a new Codeplex…