Category Archives: SharePoint

Convert XSLT Variables to Upper or Lower Case

By Craig Condon | October 22, 2008

I had a situation where I needed to compare a query string parameter to a value in a list inside a data view web part in SharePoint Designer. If the two values matched in regards to the text, but did not match in regards to case (for example: SomeWord vs. someword), they would not [...]

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SharePoint Resource Center for Updates

By jleung | October 20, 2008

As a SharePoint administrator, keeping your SharePoint environment up-to-date is one of the important tasks. Since MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 went RTM in November 2006, there are 2 major updates: Service Pack 1 and Infrastructure Update.
The following link summerizes the deployment roadmap for these important updates and provides useful information in terms of [...]

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Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint Development

By Craig Condon | October 17, 2008

Have you ever thought to yourself that the development experience in SharePoint is quite frankly a pain? That there are no real best practices or guidance about how to conduct application development or how to use an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process?
I was introduced today to the link below on msdn that offers a [...]

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Create Unique Keys Using Calculated Fields

By Craig Condon | October 14, 2008

This little trick is something that should have struck me long ago, but I just recently hit upon it. I had a situation where I needed to create a column in a list that looked up data from another list. Normally, lookup columns use the Title field as the text displayed in the [...]

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Week Ending Column in SharePoint List

By Craig Condon | August 29, 2008

I was recently working on an excel pivot table report that pulls its data from a SharePoint list. One of the business requirements was to be able to sort, filter, and/or group by a “Week Ending” date. The list has a column called Action Date which could be any day/date. The solution [...]

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