Here is a question that came in from my blog today. My company is starting to plan to migrate to SP 2013 and I just found out that the design and split view is not included in SP Designer. This is going to be absolutely devasting for us as this is really the only way…
Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are still my favorite tool in my SharePoint toolbox. Whenever I can use them to get the server to do the heavy lifting before the page is rendered, I do. jQuery and all of the fancy template libraries out there are grand, but in most cases it introduces a lag for…
There was an interesting question over in the MSDN Forums the other day that I struggled to answer. It was a headscratcher, so I had to figure it out. In the thread, emfuentes27 wanted to know why s/he saw different results in SharePoint Designer than in the browser when using this formula: Not only had…
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’m positive I’ve run into this little issue before, but since I don’t seem to have done a post on it, I stymied myself again. A client of mine spotted a nice post from Ben Tedder (@bentedder) showing how to Create a Classifieds Listing using SharePoint 2010. It uses a bunch of Content Query Web…
Image via Wikipedia If you’ve been bitten by the issue I described in my post called August Cumulative Update Causing Stack Overflows with DVWPs Running Over One Second, then you’ll be happy to know that there may be a solution available to you. An anonymous reader left a comment on the above post the today…
Today is one of those days where I try to figure out a bunch of odd situations in various places. The oddest was one involving a Data View Web Part (DVWP) I wrote about a year ago. It’s been running just fine ever since – until about a month or so ago. I didn’t hear…
We can do all sorts of fun stuff that makes the user experience (UX) in SharePoint far better than it is out of the box. One of those things is to use jQueryUI widgets like an accordion to put a large amount of content on the page, but broken into categorized, consumable chunks. Most people…
When you build a Data View Web Part (DVWP) in SharePoint Designer, there are times when you might need compound filtering. By this, I mean something like: Show me the items where (City=”Abington” or Approval Status=”Approved”) and Approval Status!=”Pending” It’s sort of a silly example, but you should get the gist. Where you put the…
I have a question for you… In a DVWP is there a way to total a column? Absolutely. The most common approach would be to emit a table row in the dvt_1.body template (or equivalent) which uses the sum() function. An example would be something like this. Let’s assume that you have a column called…