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Happy New Year!  Here's hoping that 2009 is another exciting one in the SharePoint community... Let's start the year off with another way to use the Data View Web Part (DVWP).  As many of you know, I am a huge fan of the DVWP; it allows you to take SharePoint to the next level... without writing code.  Here's the scenario: You want ...

In my last post, I wrote about how to use some business sense to influence the design of multiple document author columns.  Today, I want to put my techie hat on and discuss how to use a little XSL to fix an annoying display issue. Let's assume that you have a metadata column called Stages that allows multiple selections.  The tagger ...

Those who know me, met me, or attended one of my speaking engagements have probably heard me state that SharePoint is ''two parts Business to one part Technology''.  That's what drew me to it years ago and that's what keeps me going today... SharePoint, more than any other product I know, forces me to think (as both a technologist ...

The Content Query web part is a great tool for rolling up data from different SharePoint lists.  One of its limitations is that is does not aggregate list items across different list types.  Here’s a scenario I recently came across…   We were building a knowledge repository that contained documents in a document library and links ...

Ouch!  A few days ago I wrote about one of my favorite web parts, the Data View Web Part.  Today, it was the source of some serious frustration with one of my clients.  We have a series of WSS 2.0 sites that use the DVWP to show filtered views on a central document repository.  Things were working great... until the site ...

One of my favorite web parts is the Data View Web Part (DVWP).  It allows you to connect to external (to SharePoint) data and show information in the context of a web part... with no code!  The DVWP is not new; it was available through FrontPage 2003 with SPS 2003.  Today, you get to it and use it in a very similar way, with ...