Coding all day, every day.
23 04 2010
What the hell? I actually ended up going after all, although only to day 3, with huge thanks to @einaros for donating me his place. After getting up at 3am on Wednesday morning to leave York and arriving at the QEII Conference Centre in Westminster for 8am, I managed to get registered and join the […]
14 04 2010
If you’re displaying a list of items in a Data View Web Part, you might want to visually show to your users if the item displayed is a “new” item. An extra little flourish to enhance the user experience. Let us first decide that a item should be flagged as “new” if it was created […]
9 04 2010
QuickTip Displaying a DataViewWebPart of a List with a column of type “Person or Group”? Want to filter that list by the current user? Simple! Dive into to Code View, locate the XSL Stylesheet and find the dvt_apos parameter declaration. Add in the UserID parameter just after it, so the 2 lines look like this: […]
8 04 2010
Quick Tip When designing your Data View Web Parts, you’ll often have a reference to a specific list Item, or even a specific List. Give your users an extra helping hand, make things that little bit nicer to use by turning that reference into a hyperlink to that specific List Item or List! Select the […]
6 04 2010
Cross-Posted from EndUser SharePointhttp://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/04/06/sharepoint-reproducing-a-roll-up-dataviewwebpart-in-another-web/ After reading a fantastic post by Laura Rogers on displaying a roll-up web part using Sharepoint Designer and the all-powerful DataViewWebPart, I came across a need to produce a similar (but summarised) view of a Roll-up on another site. My current full rollup exists in a Web which recurses its sub Webs to […]
30 03 2010
On our Sharepoint intranet homepage, we have use an out-the-box discussion list to allow users to post news items of interest to the rest of the company, and to offer others the chance to leave comments. Each thread’s original post is displayed much in the same way the Announcements list view is displayed by default, […]
12 03 2010
This session, hosted at the City Inn by NetMonkeys and arranged by Mark Stokes featured two speakers – Spencer Harbar and Jamie MacAllistar. The first session by Spencer was about Information Architecture in Sharepoint. He describes Information Architecture (or IA) as the organisation of information and information systems in a manner which provides best accessibility […]
10 02 2010
I have an upcoming requirement to be able to move SPWebs from one parent SPWeb to another. Let me lay out the current architecture: Site Collection Active Projects (web) Project 1 (web) Doc Library Custom List Project 2 (web) Doc Library Custom List Things to note here are that each of the Project’s webs (project […]
30 09 2009
The requirement for this idea was to take a current Excel spreadsheet solution and “Sharepointify” it. Word of warning: I think this is by far the most confusing post I’ve ever written. It may just be for personal reference only… The current system is a work plan for the team leader written in Excel which […]
24 09 2009
“Suji” has helpfully informed me that my previous post about a Year View of the Calendar had a bug in it. To view the original post: http://e-junkie-chronicles.blogspot.com/2009/07/year-to-view-with-sharepoint-calendar.html The bug is that if an event were to span 2 months (ie: Starts September 30th and Finishes October 2nd) then the view would ouput only under the […]