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In this post, I will show you how to do some performance tuning and troubleshooting with the data view web part in SharePoint 2010. Please read my previous post called SharePoint Column: Count Related Items, and I’m going to refer to this method as a “reverse lookup”. This post is based on an issue that I came across on a
In SharePoint 2010/2013, there’s a cool little feature in task lists that lets you create a view that shows you all items assigned to any SharePoint groups that you’re a member of. Even though it’s not as apparent in other lists, this post will show you how to accomplish it using SharePoint Designer. This solution can be done in either
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If you noticed that the design view doesn’t exist anymore in SharePoint Designer 2013, here is a hack that I figured out, which lets you create data view web parts for your SharePoint 2013 site. Note that this is most likely NOT supported by Microsoft. This is just one way that I figured out, so if you really need to
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**NEW VIDEO to go with this post: The new content search web part in the SharePoint 2013 preview (enterprise) is just awesome, awesome, awesome. Remember quite a while back when I wrote a post about how to utilize the search results web part to show the logged in user a list of sites that they have access to? Well now
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How would you like to have a nice pretty web part on the home page of each of your sites, showing a dynamic list of the people who are in the owners group for that site? This is a great idea, because it gives the site users a quick reference list so that they know who to contact if they
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The basis for today’s blog post is regarding some work I’ve been doing with a client and the Microsoft Productivity Hub (here’s a description of it). The Productivity Hub is great because it gives the enterprise users a one stop place to go to for self-service training on many different Microsoft products. The client wanted to provide end users a
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In this second post of the three part blog series, I will show how you can show or hide fields according to whether or not the currently logged in person is part of a certain SharePoint group. This is a three part blog: Part 1: Using an ASPX form, with a SharePoint list of certain people who will be allowed
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