12 posts from: FrontPoint
DataViewWebPart RunTime documentation
(Indexed 2005-10-05):
Hey everyone, Sorry to be so lax in my postings. I was really busy getting ready for PDC and now Beta1 for Office looms somewhere on the horizon. Please check out Rob Mauceri's blog on our plans moving forward.Additionally, check out this article on MSDN which documents the DDWRT (data driven web runtime) functions available in the DataViewWebPart. This was done with a lot of work from Serge Van Den Oever as well as our dev team.Thanks!-John[Image]
Editing items inside Nested Document Libraries
(Indexed 2005-05-23):
I just found something pretty interesting about using a Data View Web Part to view items in a Document Library that contains folders. Without going into all the technical details, essentially the "Edit" link will return an "Item not found" error for any documents inside the subfolders.If you ever see this error, and you are positive the item does exist, the most likely cause for error is that the URL does not contain the RootFolder attribute. As an additional side note, for some reason the DataV...(truncated)...
Totals in the DataView when the View is Filtered
(Indexed 2005-03-18):
Hello again, We are chugging along with the next version of Office and are super busy around here trying to get the right features into the next version of the Data View and SharePoint customization story. That said, I was looking through some older posts and saw this one: http://blogs.msdn.com/frontpoint/archive/2004/04/30/123982.aspx from Rob. This is a really cool feature for showing the count of items in your view. However, this count is not accurate once you start using Ad Hoc filtering. Th...(truncated)...
Serge van den Oever
(Indexed 2005-03-01):
I just came across Serge's Blog last night and wanted to link to it, but also wanted to get some feedback. I've been working on documenting all the DDWRT functions the come with the DataViewWebPart, when much to my surprise, Serge had already a good job of it himself. http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2005/01/03/345535.aspx I was hoping to get some feedback about whether this information is useful, high priority, necessary...any comments at all. Thanks! -John[Image]
Some Behaviors may not be restored even though you check the button to "Restore onmouseout"
(Indexed 2005-02-10):
This one is really more of a KB article topic than SharePoint specific, but I was asked this question by a SharePoint developer who uses a lot of DIVs, so I thought I'd post it here. If you use FrontPage Behaviors to do things like change the background color of a layer, or change the style of a font tag using onclick or onmouseover commands, and you also want to restore the style onmouseout or onblur, you may find that the style is not restored properly in certain cases. These cases are when th...(truncated)...
Selecting unique values in a Drop-down list using the Data View Web Part
(Indexed 2005-02-08):
I posted awhile ago about how to select unique values for tabular data views, but I have now received a few emails asking how to do it for drop-down lists. It is almost the exact same code, but apparently this is confusing enough to warrant a different post. My code sample assumes you are using the default Announcements list on SharePoint and that the Title field is what you want to display. First, browse out to your Announcements list (which you get by default when you create a SharePoint site)...(truncated)...
Using Conditional Formatting and the data view opens up a whole new world of possibilities
(Indexed 2004-11-11):
I have a Data View Web Part that displays the status of several different servers I maintain. Basically, I am using a SharePoint list. The List has a Title field which contains the name of each server and a multiple choice field that lets me set the status to "UP," "DOWN," or "CAUTION." For each of these three statuses, I have a little gif image of a green arrow, red arrow and yellow circle respectively. What I want to do is create a data view that has the name of the server and displays the ...(truncated)...
Customizing List Form web parts should be easy but isn't
(Indexed 2004-11-10):
This is one of those issues that bugs me quite a bit. When you want to customize the NewForm or EditForm.aspx pages on a wss site, you have to live in code (reading CAML or encoded HTML). Or even build something yourself from scratch. Since the toolbar for these List Forms can't be customized, it is really challenging to make these form look the way you want. Here is a tip for creating a new toolbar. If any of you have better tips or tricks for doing this, let me know! Open the NewForm.aspx ...(truncated)...
Howto: Display list or document library data from a parent site within a different site
(Indexed 2004-10-27):
I get asked this one a lot, and thought I had blogged it but it looks like I didn't. The general user scenario is where you have a parent site (http://myserver) that contains a list of information that is relevant to a bunch of subsites (http://myserver/subsite) and you want to display the data from the parent inside the children. For these steps, the server I am using is called: http://myserver, on this server is my subsite: http://myserver/subsite Open this subsite in FrontPage Browse to ht...(truncated)...
use SharePoint's web services to access list data using FrontPage
(Indexed 2004-10-21):
Windows SharePoint Services ships with some really powerful web services that allow users to access list and site information not available through other means. FrontPage 2003 allows users to access these web services in a very straight forward manner, populating all of the query fields dynamically so that little or no knowledge of SOAP is required. This example here describes how to use the Data View Web Part to access the lists.asmx web service to display the Attachments on list items in wss....(truncated)...
Using a form to filter a data view web part - or NOT
(Indexed 2004-06-10):
This is a modified post. My original code sample was more complicated than it needed to be. This one is WAY simpler.I was just thinking that it should be a lot easier to use a Form Web Part and be able to either filter a data view based on that Form's contents, or to pass in an “ALL” value. Basically, when you enable the Filtering toolbar for the Data View, this is what you get, but in my scenario, I wanted to be able to go cross-page with my filter.My wife had a baby 2 weeks ago,...(truncated)...
HOWTO: Fire a connection from the Drop-down view style of the Data View Web Part
(Indexed 2004-05-21):
Hey there. FrontPage shipped a View Style for the Data View Web Part that doesn't really do anything. The style is the drop-down style. What most people want from this style is the ability to fire connections from it, so I wrote a KB article about this. That is still in draft state, but I've seen this question so many times, I felt I had to post it here as well.Good luck! 1. Insert two Data Views of your data.2. Select one of the Data Views, choose Style from the Data View Details taskpane.3...(truncated)...