Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs
I’m back after a long break from posting to announce the availability of a new web part that you may find helpful.
Zone Tabs 2.0 is a new version of a tab web part I previously released on GotDotNet that helps reduce clutter on a web part page by allowing you [...]
Oct
13
2009
13
2009
Vantage Point – Bob German’s WebLog : Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs
Aug
4
2009
4
2009
Link the CQWP to another XSL File » Andy Burns’ SharePoint Blog
I was going to remind myself of a technique that I’d seen Liam Cleary use on his blog about importing XSL files into ItemStyles.xsl, but then I noticed that he’d linked to a far better idea from Brendon Swartz – you can change the XSL file that the Content Query Web Part presents ItemStyles for. [...]
Jul
29
2009
29
2009
Case study: KPI roll-up in MOSS (Part II) « Path to SharePoint
In Part I, we created project dashboards at the team level. In Part II, we are going to use the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) and follow these steps to build our executive dashboard: 1/ Collect the project status for all teams in the division [...]
Jul
29
2009
29
2009
Using calculated columns to write HTML « Path to SharePoint
One of their limitations is that the output is just text. Sometimes your browser will be smart enough to interpret the text as a hyperlink – when you calculate an e-mail address or a URL for example. Nevertheless in this case the display is usually not user-friendly. This will never allow you to get what [...]
Jul
29
2009
29
2009
How to set SharePoint People Picker default value to current user through javascript
I needed to set a default value for the Assigned To field for a task. I wanted it to default to the current user. The script provided at Andy Bonner’s Blog gives a great sample of this. His script sets the value for the Submitted By field. If you want it to work for the [...]
Jul
29
2009
29
2009
Create a Related Documents Data View « Codeless Solutions for SharePoint
Great post on create a Related Documents view for a list item.
At my organization, we have found the Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects Template extremely useful. For those of you have not seen this template I urge you to go to http://www.wssdemo.com/application/default.aspx and view an example of this handy template. The link is in [...]
Mar
17
2009
17
2009
How to manually install the SqlQueryGrid web part
Years ago (5 years ago actually), I created a web part for Sharepoint that allowed you to display data from a SQL Server database as a simple table in Sharepoint. Since that time, Sharepoint Designer has added the dataview web part, which gives you much more control over connecting to and formatting data from external [...]
Mar
13
2009
13
2009
Styling the Site Actions menu – Zach Rosenfield’s SharePoint Blog
This is a quick one… I wanted to share a "SharePoint 101" tip: Styling the Site Actions Menu.
Here’s what i started with–you can tell that the site actions menu (with its Out-Of-The-Box style) wasn’t going to work for me:
I wanted something simpler that matches the "welcome" screen! So for starters, i removed the background from [...]
Mar
9
2009
9
2009
Rounded Corners in Sharepoint Webpart Title Bar Using JQuery
Goal
A web part title bar with scripted rounded corners that can be displayed with or without a border.
Background
I wanted to create Sharepoint web part title bars with curved corners, and my search of the web led me to a couple of really good articles that got me started. Heather Solomon’s Post on Branding Sharepoint discusses [...]
Feb
23
2009
23
2009
Showing Random images in Sharepoint 2007 using jQuery
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If you’ve been following my blog you know that a bit more than a year ago I’ve published the Imtech Random Image Web Part: a SharePoint web part which allows you to display random images from a list of your choice. The web part I’ve made contains some code which you would have to deploy [...]