Contents tagged with SharePoint Designer
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Getting the Weather Forecast Using SharePoint Workflows
I already wrote a post on how to use SharePoint 2013 workflows. This time, I’ll get back to this topic, with a slightly more interesting (IMO) use case: a recurring workflow that runs once a day and emails users the weather forecast for the next day!
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SharePoint Pitfalls: Master Pages in Page Layouts
When you deploy a page layout, you may want to add your own master page as well. I find it useful to add my own custom master pages and reference them directly, in the same or a dependent feature. You might be surprised, however, that it doesn’t work exactly how you’d expect!
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SharePoint Pitfalls Index
Updated on July 20th
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SharePoint Pitfalls: Save Publishing Site as Template Option Missing
If you want to save a publishing site as a template, so that it can be used to create other sites, you may find it surprising that the option is missing from the site settings page:
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SharePoint Filter Web Part
SharePoint includes a couple of useful web parts that can be used to filter other web parts. The problem is, they are only available in the Enterprise edition. It is easy, however, to build our own filters.
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SharePoint XSLT Web Part
After my previous post on XSLT processing, what else could follow? Of course, an XSLT web part for SharePoint!
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Filtering and Sorting SharePoint List Views
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The SPDataSource Control
SPDataSource, together with XsltListViewWebPart, DataFormWebPart and ContentByQueryWebPart, is one of the most powerful tools that SharePoint provides. Because it can be used in different ways, it can also get complicated. In this post I am going to talk about is different modes and what can they give us. Fist, you need to know that the mode comes from the DataSourceMode property and can be one of:
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Getting the Current User in SharePoint XSLT
SharePoint offers a couple of ways by which we can obtain the current user for use in a XSLT web part like DataFormWebPart or XsltListViewWebPart. All involve first setting parameters through the ParameterBindings property:
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Show All Content in XSLT
I have already shown how you can display all attributes and their values from a XSLT content, but in case you want to look at the whole structure plus their attributes, you can use this instead: