This is something that I’ve tried to solve many times and each time I’ve ended up doing something more complicated than I’ve needed to, but I knew would work. I finally bit the bullet and solved it the right way. Here’s the scenario: You have a primary list with many items in it One of…
I figured out a great little trick for sorting a DVWP-based display based on a column name passed in the Query String. You can see this in action in the default All Items or All Documents views in lists or libraries. When you click on the column headers that allow sorting, the browser is sent…
If you set up a sort in a DVWP that has an aggregate Data Source, you’ll need to use the <xsl:sort> tag. If you want to sort by a list column that is numeric, the tag: <xsl:sort select=”@JobFamilyRank” order=”ascending”/> will sort your data like: 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 20, 21, 3… That is, SharePoint…