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In the last two posts of this series, I showed you how to use the MOSS Enterprise out of box web part called the Query String (URL) Filter. This post will show you how to accomplish the same thing, but without MOSS. This entails using the data view web part. I’ll use the same example of a project details page.
In SharePoint 2010, when you put a list view web part on a page, go to the web part tool pane, and switch the Selected View in the drop-down box, the following message pops up: The part about disabling web part connections isn’t true anymore. Back in SharePoint 2007, when you created web part connections you had to make sure
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Here’s a little hack that you can do, in order to create permissions on views of any list or library. I’m not going to say this is the most pretty or perfect solution, but it’s at least a way to accomplish this. It gets asked all the time. “How can I set permissions so that only certain people can see
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This is basically a re-post of something that I did on endusersharepoint.com a couple of weeks ago… Have you ever noticed that in SharePoint views, when selecting to view “Totals”, calculated columns aren’t listed as an option for column totals? In this video, I demonstrate this dilemma, and shows how you CAN create a view that displays calculated column totals.
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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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