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Categories: Duffer Moments, Development, XSL, SharePoint, Office System 2007, Errors
I got a very weird error this morning while working with some XML retrieval from SharePoint. I was getting the following error: The only reason I got this is have written an error handler for the web part that outputs the stack trace to the s.....
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Weird Error: SharePoint API List Items XML and Word
Categories: Development, XSL, Office System 2007, SharePoint, WSS, Errors
During some work I have been undertaking recently I hit a problem when trying to retrieve XML data from SharePoint Views of a List. For this work I simply connected to the views using a simple XMLTransform and render this out. Most lists worked we.....
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Caching Data in Web Parts
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, XSL, WSS
There have been a couple of posts published recently about caching data within web parts. http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2008/09/23/sharepoint-caching-and-cachedependency.aspx http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/10/07/web-part-caching-%E2.....
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Fantastic Framework Released
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, XSL, WSS
I have just been catching up on some blog reading and came across the new ARF (Alternative Rendering Framework for SharePoint) by Vince Rotherwell has been released. I suppose for those of you who have used the CKS:EBE then you will be know how usin.....
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My Personal Web Part Project *UPDATE*
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, Personal Projects, SharePoint, XSL
In one of the last posts I did, I talked about a personal web part that I have been working on. After some more bits of work I have now managed to modify and change a few things. Firstly I have now fixed it so it actually remembers the web part se.....
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CQWP HINTS – Main News Item and Sub News Items
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
While working with the CQWP and with specific clients, I was asked about displaying some news items in a specific format. Normally for lots of clients the following layout works well. However for this specific format the following layout was .....
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CQWP HINTS – Windows Media Player
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
In the last few posts I have given a few hints for when you need to use the CQWP. In this post we will again look at using the CQWP, but this time look at making it display a little Windows Media Player control that plays a video from our media st.....
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CQWP HINTS – Import XSL Styles into “ItemStyle.xsl”
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
NOTE: Brendon beat me too the next post!! :-) Check it here: http://blogs.sharepointguys.com/brendon/sharepoint-2007/programming/connecting-the-cqwp-without-changing-itemstyle-xsl/ One of the problems with using the CQWP in SharePoint is that if.....
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CQWP HINTS - Only show more link if needed
Categories: Development, SharePoint, Office System 2007, CQWP, XSL
In the last posts we looked at tweaking the XSL slightly to change the title URL. In this post we will continue with the CQWP and XSL. In one of my previous posts I showed how to add a "[more]" button and a short description that comes f.....
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CQWP HINTS – Swap the “title” URL from “$SafeLinkUrl” to a custom URL
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
Hopefully by now you may know that I am a great advocate of the Content Query Web Part within the SharePoint environment. Over the past few weeks I have had lots of requests for little style changes or just general questions on how to do things wi.....
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MOSS2007 – Show InfoPath fields within CQWP (Yes you can)
Categories: Development, Office System 2007, InfoPath, SharePoint, CQWP, XSL
In the last post I had been investigating if it was possible to view the fields that are created by the "Administrator Approved" InfoPath forms. After a little tip from Adri Verlaan from Microsoft, I have been able to get the columns to .....
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