Joined Subviews with Linked Datasources in SharePoint 2010

I recently completed a project that involved joining a list (Appendix A) and a document library (Appendix A documents). Each document, when added to the library, was associated with an item from the list. There were three document types and each item in Appendix A needed to have 3 matching documents in the library. The [...]

Modifying the SharePoint 2010 Preview Pane View Style

Out of the box, SharePoint 2010 offers several styles that can be selected when creating a view of a list or library. One really useful style is the Preview Pane. If you have a list with a lot of columns, the Preview Pane style is great for creating a vertical view of the data, avoiding [...]

Calendar Overlay – a simple SharePoint 2010 OOTB Master Calendar

A master calender is a common request for team sites that have sub-sites. If you are running SharePoint 2010, there’s now a built-in way to do a roll-up master calendar using the calendar overlay feature. The Steps At the site on which you want to display the master calendar, either create a calendar list or [...]

XSLT XML Dump

Ever wanted to dump the raw XML from a webpart? It’s easy. Just change the XSLT to the following for nicely formatted XML. <xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″ xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”> <xsl:output method=”xml” indent=”yes” /> <xsl:template match=”/”> <xmp> <xsl:copy-of select=”*”/> </xmp> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> You can save this as an style sheet in your styles library and apply it to any [...]

Displaying the Document Icon in a CrossList SharePoint 2010 DFWP

Once again, I’m finding that the DataForm Web Part (DFWP) acts slightly differently when you’re using it as a roll-up. And, once again, I’m finding great info out there on Marc Anderson’s blog about what I want to do. But, once again, it needs a slight tweak to work with a roll up. So, if [...]

Linking to Documents with a Roll-up DataForm Web Part

Say you want to make a roll-up webpart of all the word documents in a bunch of subsites on SharePoint 2010. Well, you could use the Content Query Web Part and modify the XSLT to filter out everything but word documents. Or, you could fire up SharePoint Designer and pull out the handy-dandy DataForm Web [...]

WordPress Plugin Updates for WP 3.1

The following plugins have been updated (finally – sorry) for WP 3.1.1: Blog Topics Management menu moved to network admin Aggregation terminology changed to “share/don’t share” New sites default to not sharing Notification added to site admin dashboard if site is not being shared Sharing settings & notification settings moved to site admin -> privacy [...]

SharePoint 2010: Enabling Managed Metadata features

SharePoint 2010 comes with some wonderful managed metadata features. A quick Google search returns oodles of information about planning your managed metadata, adding managed metadata columns to lists and libraries, and using metadata navigation. What most of them fail to point out is that there are features that need to be enabled in order to [...]

Blog Topics Plugin – Take Two

Quite some time ago, I launched the first version of the Blog Topics Plugin. I hadn’t updated it since way back in September of 2008. Originally, it was relying on URLs with query parameters for all the portal aspects of the plugin. For instance, if you wanted to link to a page of blogs from [...]

The Great Plugin Update

I’ve been spending the last little while updating plugins for WP/WPMU 2.9.1.1.  All the plugins can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/deannas Most of these are minor updates – mostly just testing the plugins and making sure they work on 2.9.1.1. There are a few significant changes: New Blog Defaults There was a timezone bug in this [...]

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