Quite often I find myself needing to use a server variable in a SharePoint data view web part. These are very useful for getting information that would otherwise not be available to use in a DVWP. There are several resources that explain how to use server variables, so check those out if you haven’t used…
I’ve been doing a lot of work with SPServices and SharePoint lists lately, and I find myself using the same CAML queries over and over. Unfortunately I don’t always remember how to format some of the more common queries, so I decided to make a quick reference. There are already some good tools and resources out…
This afternoon one of our managers in my department stopped by my desk with a simple request. She wanted to be notified when a new list item was created on a custom list I had built for her about a year ago. She had set up a twice-weekly reminder in Outlook to check the list…
In the first entry to this series, I demonstrated how you can use a data view web part (DVWP) to emit SharePoint® calendar events as JSON that the FullCalendar jQuery plugin can use. Although it works fairly well, there are some limitations to the solution. It doesn’t handle recurring events, it doesn’t retrieve all events,…
This morning I was working on a custom list item display form for a “Tags” list that I created in SharePoint (DispFormCustom.aspx). I replaced the standard display form web part with a data view web part (DVWP). For various reasons that I won’t bother explaining in this post, I needed to create a redirect on…
As part of a large department site redesign project, I wanted to implement a better calendar solution than what MOSS 2007 gives you OOTB. I remembered coming across the FullCalendar jQuery plugin a while back, so I decided to try using it with the calendar on my department’s site. I haven’t tested this in SharePoint…
The default rich text editor (RTE) in SharePoint® 2007 doesn’t quite cut it in my opinion, and here’s why: It’s based on an ActiveX control, so it only works in Internet Explorer. This alone is reason enough to replace it. When creating a multiple line of text column in a custom list, you can only…
In a recent project created a page that features several Data View Web Parts pulling information from multiple lists within the site to create a dashboard-like experience. The stakeholders also wanted to be able to quickly search within each list, so I decided to include a custom search box at the top of each data…
Recently I needed to create a Data View Web Part in MOSS 2007 that displayed all upcoming events, as well as all events that took place within the last week. The out of the box filtering options in SharePoint Designer (SPD) let you filter a Date and Time column by the “[Current Date]” or by…
Note: This article was originally posted on NothingButSharePoint.com, but some of the code snippets were unescaped when it was published, so I decided to post it on my own blog with the correct code snippets. I was recently tasked with finding a way to maintain an org chart for my department. If this were a…