Category Archives: Data View Web Part

List View Styles

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

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Data View Web Part (DVWP) Series

Good afternoon! There is a new series of articles that I started writing, regarding the data view web part in SharePoint Designer.  These articles have been published on the endusersharepoint.com site, so I’ll just link to them from here. New Article Series: Laura Rogers on Data View Web Part Basics – This article is simply an introductory article regarding this

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Ways to Display Multiple Document Libraries

It seems that one of the most commonly asked questions on discussion boards and forums is “How can I display documents from multiple document libraries all in one list?”  So, I decided to enumerate some of the available options to achieve this goal.  They each have their pluses and drawbacks.  This article is written about the enterprise version of SharePoint

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Displaying SharePoint Fields by Permission Level

There are situations where certain fields in lists or libraries need to be hidden or displayed according to the permission level of the logged in user.  Since there is really no out-of-box way to assign permissions to fields, here’s a way to do it using conditional formatting in SharePoint Designer.  This is my favorite SP Designer trick, that I discovered

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