Custom Workflow Activity combined with InfoPath and XSLT
In my case I needed a custom workflow activity in order to send a email notification to some users. In addition the workflow triggers when a new InfoPath XSN formular was created. And exactly here was...
View ArticleHow to add a JS ToolTip into a custom Webpart?
Sometimes it is very useful, for instance you wanna show for a download document library a small popup window with a preview Image of the first page. This can be a simple JS mouse over event. With...
View ArticleCustomize ItemStyle.xsl for ContentQuery Webpart
If you want to preserve the look and feel of a Web page by applying certain custom styles to the page content by including a WepPart, you can change the definition of style sheets “ItemStyles.xsl”...
View Articleddwrt:FormatDate with different FormatFlags
I needed to use the ddwrt functions in my content query web part. Using the FormatFlags you can easily transform the format you wish. Add the following namespace attribute to the root xsl:stylesheet...
View ArticleIntroduction in the Content Query Webpart
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 introduces a lot of new web parts, one of them being the Content Query Web Part. This Web Part is part of the “Web Content Management” features of Microsoft...
View ArticleCreate a rotation banner in a CQWP
In this post I am gonna explain how easy it is to create a custom banner function in a CQWP by adding some JavaScript code. The goal is to show a Title with a hyperlink and a short description in a...
View ArticleCalling a recursive template instead of a Split String function in XSLT
When I wanted to try to access a multiple Lookup field the values are seperated in one String like this: one; two; three; four; five etc. In the next step I wanted to write the values in seperate...
View ArticleApproaches when customizing a DataView WebPart (DVWP)
In this post I wanna show some tricky approaches when customizing DataView Webparts (DVWP) in the SP Designer. Maybe the approaches can save you a lot of time. Actually you can customize the weparts...
View ArticleCustomizing Styles of Table of Contents WebPart (TOC)
I this post I gonna show you how easy it is to customize the default Tabel of Contents Webpart. This webpart can list pages, lists and subsites of a specific site, and this in a custom organization and...
View ArticleCQWP Remove Markup from escaped page content
I created a CQWP Template for displaying Items with some formatted Rich-Text Content. Nothing special. In addition the Rich-Text Description field should only display the first 180 letters and here is...
View ArticleRetrieve all available values “Itemstyles.xsl”
A good practice to follow when you are going to use some fields from a List or a Library in your ContentQuery Webpart is to retreive all available values. You can find this file in the document library...
View ArticleAdding a Property to the Advanced People Search and a Column to the People...
A customer asked me to adding a Property Field called “Manager” in the People Search Advanced Mode. For this demonstration I added custom property called “Manger” to the profile properties, and in...
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