Monthly Archives: March 2009

I Love the SiteData.asmx Web Service

There are a whole slew of SharePoint web services, but today I decided to try out the SiteData.asmx one, in a data view web part (the GetListCollection operation in particular).  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a developer, so in a lot of cases, the data view web part (DVWP) has become my best friend. In various SharePoint discussion threads,

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SharePoint Technical Conference (SP Tech Con)

SPTechCon (www.sptechcon.com) is coming up! Looking forward to seeing you all at this conference!  Presentations that I’ll be doing:  Making the Most Of Out-of-the-Box Web Parts Out-of-the-Box Web parts are extremely flexible. This session will provide business users and project managers with a detailed look at the Filter, KPI, Excel Web Access, Outlook Web Access and Business Data Catalog Web

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“I Need To…” Display a List of Documents

In this article, I’ll describe how to use the out-of-box “I Need To…” web part to display a dynamic list of documents in a document library. About the “I Need To…” web part This web part displays items in a list on the SharePoint site.  The Title field is the field that will be displayed.  The list also must have

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Fun with Announcements – 4 Parts

There is a new series that I’ve written, about fun things that you can do with an announcements list in SharePoint. Part 1: Create a Publish Date functionality for Announcements https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/fun-with-attachments-part-1.aspx Part 2: Create Alerts Based On Announcement Categories https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/fun-with-announcements-part-2.aspx Part 3: Modify the default “Current View” of the announcements Web Parts https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/fun-with-announcements-part-3.aspx Part 4: Create a “More” link to

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