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It’s called “Dynamic List Filtering”, but it’s the concept of adding multiple web parts to a page in SharePoint, and setting them up to send data across web parts, so that one web part changes dynamically according to something that was clicked on the other web part. Here are some of the things that you may want to display with
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In all versions of SharePoint and Office 365, the Excel Web Access web part has been around for years. It is part of the enterprise version of these products. Web part connections can be created on pages in SharePoint, to send information between web parts. The requirement in this scenario is that a department has a bunch of spreadsheets in
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STOP USING INFOPATH Three years ago, I wrote a blog post called Displaying SharePoint Fields by Permission Level. This one has the highest amount of hits, but it is an imperfect solution. One of the most common questions that was asked was to see if there’s a way to show or hide fields in an ASPX form based on who
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When assigning tasks in SharePoint workflows, you may have noticed that each task that gets assigned has one field that associates it with the original list or library item where the workflow task came from. You may have noticed the “Related Content” column in a task list. It is just a hyperlink field that links you back to that original
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Another name for this post could be “The most web part connections you’ve ever seen”, or “how to go insane in 41 easy steps”. Just kidding. I thought I’d whip this up ‘real quick’ the other day, and then it turned out to be 9 pages. This post applies to the enterprise version of SharePoint 2010 and Office 365 only.
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In SharePoint 2010, you may have noticed the button at the top right corner of all of the pages, called “I Like It”. This button basically just adds a tag (I Like It) to the item, but it’s not readily apparent WHY you would want to use that button. You can go to your My Site profile, and click the
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This applies to the Enterprise version only, for SharePoint 2007 or 2010. A lot of times, especially with InfoPath fields, you end up with a text field with a user’s name in it, instead of an actual people picker field. The syntax may be something like DOMAINusername. In this post, I’ll use the example of “Current Approver”. This text field
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