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When a data view web part is created in SharePoint Designer 2010, there is a new way of formatting list items. In the SharePoint list’s data view web part, at the item level, there are two options that can be selected, as shown in this screenshot: Show list item menu Show link to item Now, I’ll go into what each
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When editing a data view in SharePoint 2010, using SharePoint Designer 2010, on the <Design> tab, there’s a section called <Preview>. This title is a little misleading, because there are some pretty powerful options in this section, having to do with inline editing. Jennifer Mason wrote about “SharePoint 2010- Inline Editing for Views”, which shows how to set up a
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When new items are added to lists and libraries in SharePoint, a cute little icon appears next to each list item for 2 days after the creation date. When a data view web part is created, this icon does not exist by default, so it needs to be added back. Here are the steps for adding the New icon back,
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During one of the migrations of my blog several years ago, part of this original post got lost, but the images associated with it still exist. So, I don’t know what the post said (I wrote it almost 7 years ago), but here are the images that are recovered, and then the part where the text starts is the part
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This is another post of a solution related to Microsoft’s SharePoint Employee Training template, but this solution can be used on any list on your site. Here’s the story… We use this employee training template to set up various training series at work. For example, if there’s some diversity training coming up, there will be a lot of different appointments
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When creating a new view on a SharePoint list or library, there’s this little section towards the bottom of the view settings, called Style, that looks like this: To see what each style looks like, you could easily modify your view, changing it to each style, one at a time. I’ve discovered something in SharePoint Designer allows for a PREVIEW
Read moreThere 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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