SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 33: Modifying Total and Subtotal Row Layouts in DVWP

Author: Jim Bob Howard We’re in the home stretch… just a couple more tweaks to our DVWP to make it work a little better and then we’ll put all the pieces together. Totally Awesome To really make this worthwhile, we should do some grouping within our filtered views, along with some totals and sub-totals. First, let’s turn on the grouping and see what we get OOTB. In SharePoint Designer (SPD), hover over your DVWP in the Design pane and click the chevron (right arrow),... [Read more]

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Build a Better Business with SharePoint 2010

Guest Author: Kayla Heinen Infinitely Virtual Microsoft released SharePoint 2010 in May. The software provides better integration with products such as Microsoft Office and supplies flexible deployment and centralized administration, giving you the efficient and secure working environment you need. SharePoint 2007 offered site production and management, document sharing, and basic collaboration through alerts and document protection. In addition to many improvements in these applications,... [Read more]

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Sharepoint and Historical Dependence on Email: Why Outlook Hides Reasons that Make SharePoint Implementations Fail

Guest Author: Daniel Dunne Here’s a typical path for a SharePoint implementation in your neighborhood: The organization is distributed: there’s a large contingency of in-office information workers with a smaller, but mission critical, staff distributed in the field. The organization has a complete dependence on email and turns to SharePoint to enhance communication and reduce the email rat race. IT operation has some form of a VPN in place to enable the remote worker’s... [Read more]

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Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance and Planning (Book Review)

I had lunch with Sue Hanley at Best Practices Conference last week. She’s one of my favorite people to talk with in the SharePoint Community because of her complete focus on value to the business, outside of any technology piece. When I got home yesterday, I was surprised and pleased to find her new book, co-authored with Scott Jamison and Mauro Cardarelli, waiting on the stoop. “Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance and Planning” is a much needed conversation from the... [Read more]

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SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 32: Filling in Default Data on the insert Template with Multiple DVWPs

Author: Jim Bob Howard Last time, we talked about setting a control to a default value using jQuery. In the example, we were setting the value of a dropdown list on which we had implemented Marc Anderson’s SPCascadeDropdowns. It’s a pretty straightforward process with a couple of caveats depending on which browser your users are using and/or how many items are in your dropdown list. However, we enlisted Christophe Humbert’s Easy Tabs on this project, too. We did that so... [Read more]

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SharePoint 2010 and Visio 2010: Better Together – Part 1

Guest Author: Wictor Wilén http://www.wictorwilen.se/ This is the first post in a series about SharePoint 2010 and Visio 2010 and how the two products integrate with each other.   I remember when I first saw Visio many, many years ago. It was before Microsoft acquired it from Visio Corporation. My dad was using it to make blue prints of our summer house. As with most of the gadgets and software he buys my dad needs a helping hand, not saying he is not technical, but I tend... [Read more]

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Architecting your SharePoint 2010 Records Management Solution

Guest Author: Michal Pisarek Firstly sorry for the almost month break between post! It has been a crazy month but we back ready to rock and roll with our Records Management solution in SharePoint 2010. In constructing our solution let’s begin with the very basics and consider some high level logical architecture advice for those creating an RM solution. Now this is a combination of my own personal opinion, Microsoft best practices, and some experience from out in the field. User Collaboration... [Read more]

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SharePoint: Interactive Charts using Google Visualization API v2.0

Guest Author: Alexander Bautz SharePoint JavaScripts Since I posted the previous version of the solution that utilizes the Google Chart Tools / Interactive Charts (aka Visualization API), Google has updated their API and made the previous version more or less obsolete. NOTE: I have made a “bridge” between Google’s Visualization API and SharePoint. How the charts render or function is up to Google to decide – it is their “product”. Refer to the various... [Read more]

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SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 31: Filling in Default Data on the insert Template with jQuery

Author: Jim Bob Howard We’ve been building a solution for a division to keep track of its full-time employees. We’ve rearranged the layout of the DVWP, reprogrammed the form action links and even passed them some workflow variables, added cascading drop-downs, created an alternate edit template so that we can record edits AND deletes to an audit list. Several pieces are beginning to fall into place as we draw nearer to the culmination of the Extending the DVWP series. We now... [Read more]

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SharePoint: Filtering with Web Part Connections

Author: Kerri Abraham Have you ever noticed the ‘Connections’ option on web parts and wondered what it was meant to do?  Have you played with it a bit, tried connecting one thing to another only to have nothing happen?  Did you do a web search to try to figure it out and come back with results like “Connection Interface Pair: ICellProvider, ICellConsumer “ and then give up, just to assume that was something you needed Sharepoint Designer to master (and you... [Read more]

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SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 30: Using EasyTabs with Filtered DVWPs to Make Data Manageable

Author: Jim Bob Howard If you’ve been following along with the Extending the DVWP series, you might be wondering, "Why is he doing all of this?" The whole point of this project was to make things easier for managers to update the number of full-time employees in their department. The administrative assistant who is collecting that data for reporting needs it all in one Excel spreadsheet to run some percentages, etc. But the managers themselves only need to update their own... [Read more]

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Live from Best Practices, It’s the OKCSUG Show

I had the pleasure of presenting a live online session to the Oklahoma City SharePoint User Group tonight from the speaker dinner at Best Practices Conference, Washington DC. We were able to round up many of the speakers to give brief presentations, talking about their current projects and what they are working on. This is a very informal video, so you can get a feel for the camaraderie that happens at this type of event and how willing people are to give their time to help others. At times, the... [Read more]

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