Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Camping

Took a few days off, packed up the land rover with bare necessities (some tins of food, half a sack of potatoes, a few bottles of water, the dogs, and the girlfriend - not necessarily in that order :) ), and went off to Selmun. This is a small picturesque bay which is not very accessible unless you have a 4*4, and is usually quite quiet. Especially during weekdays, or when there are no long

SharePoint 2007: Blank Master Page

<%-- Identifies this page as a .master page written in C# and registers tag prefixes, namespaces, assemblies, and controls. --%><%@ Master language="C#" %><%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %><%@ Register Tagprefix="SPSWC" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls" Assembly="

Friday, June 8, 2007

SharePoint 2007 - Tweaking the Data View with XSL

Following the Data View Basic Printing Page a small tip to show the use XSL in a Data View. What we will di is change status items e.g. High / Medium / Low into images in a Data View. These is nice to beautify your DataViewsFind the xsl:value for the column containing your status field. < xsl:value-of select="@Status"/> and change it to an xsl:choose<

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

SharePoint 2007 - Basic Printing page - listing of master / detail lists

Data Views are something which is quite standard in terms of SharePoint Designer, however, it gives you lots of flexibility, and I thought I'd bring this to the attention of those who still have not used it.DataViews can satisfy a request which we get often is the ability to print information in SharePoint. The normal pages usually contain too many non-content items that simply make a printout of