Office Zealot

If you downloaded the beta version of InfoPath Forms Service as part of SharePoint 2010 then you will get the chance to try out filtering data in browser forms.   Filtering is supported on the following controls:   Repeating tables, Repeating sections , List Box, Bulleted List, Drop-Down List Box and Numbered List.   If your ...

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 ...

I love to hate XSL.  It drives me absolutely crazy sometimes to get the syntax just right (XSL is so unforgiving) but, when things work, you can do so much with so few lines of code.  Here's a snippet I used recently to add a hyperlink in a MOSS search result to allow the user to ignore all other criteria used and just focus on a ...

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 ...