In the last installment, I showed you what templates SharePoint Designer usually creates when you set up a Data View Web Part (DVWP). Having the templates in place is great, but you need a way to chain them together to make them do anything. That’s where
A template in a Data View Web Part’s (DVWP’s) XSL is a really important “unit of measure”. When you first drop a DVWP on the page and configure it, SharePoint Designer will automagically create a default set of templates for you.
Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are, to me, the most powerful feature in SharePoint. You’ve probably heard them called the Swiss Army Knife of SharePoint and there’s really very little that you can’t display with them if you understand how they work. But understanding the inner working of DVWPs requires knowledge of some pretty crufty concepts: CAML and XSL. In this series, I hope to demystify the XSL side of things a bit by explaining the most common XSL tags you’re likely to see in DVWPs and what you can do with them.
I left you with the details of how one of the Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) – sections A and B below – on the dashboard worked by using an AggregateDataSource, values passed in on the Query String, and complex links to other functionality. In this article, I’ll talk about the DVWP in section C.
SPSetMultiSelectSizes is a function in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services that lets you set the sizes of multi-select picker boxes based on the values they contain. This may sound trivial, but because of the way SharePoint constructs the pickers as compound controls, it’s less straightforward than you might think.
I showed how I used my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services to improve data quality by enhancing an out of the box form using the SPRequireUnique, SPDisplayRelatedInfo, and PreSaveAction functions. In this installment, I’ll show you how I created part of the nice dashboard-like page to display the current state of things to each Project Manager using Data View Web Parts (DVWPs).
Guest Author: Marc D. Anderson
http://mdasblog.wordpress.com
So I’ve been going on about how wonderful this jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services stuff is, but you may have wondered if I ever actually use the library in real world situations. You bet I do, and it lets me build some pretty nice solutions [...]
Guest Author: Marc D. Anderson
http://mdasblog.wordpress.com
SPDisplayRelatedInfo is a function in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services that lets you display information which is related to the selection in a dropdown. This can really bring your forms to life for users: rather than just selecting bland text values, you can [...]
While seemingly everyone else in the SharePoint Universe is oohing and aahing over SharePoint 2010, I continue to plod along with my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. (Follow the library on Twitter: @jQSPWS.) I’m sticking with my belief that we’re all going to be using SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0 or MOSS) for a good long time, and my library will help make it work better and more “coolly” for us now rather than waiting for SharePoint 2010.
The SPCascadeDropdowns function lets you set up cascading dropdowns on SharePoint forms. What this means is that you can enforce hierarchical relationships between column values. This is sometimes called connected dropdowns or linked dropdowns (or probably other things I haven’t run across yet).
