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Nothing makes a site look good like nice images. Using a large header graphic on you Sharepoint site can help direct users to some important information or announcement. Many non-SharePoint images use...
View ArticleImproving #SharePoint Forms
Over the next few weeks I will be writing a series of posts on how to improve the out of the box SharePoint forms by using simple CSS and jQuery solutions. These solutions will help improve usability...
View ArticleImproving #SharePoint Forms – Hints
When users are asked to enter information in a form sometimes it helps to give them a hint regarding what types of information should be entered. Out of the box you can enter a description of each...
View ArticleAdding Comments to a List Part 1
In SharePoint 2007 the only lists that offer a comments feature are the posts list in the Blog site template. Wouldn’t it be nice to allow people to post comments on other types of lists like...
View ArticleAdding Comments to a List Part 2
So here is what we have done so far from Part 1 Create a custom list to hold our comments Link the list with an Annoucements list using lookup columns Create a page to display a single annoucement...
View ArticleAnything Slider in SharePoint – Update
Several people have asked how to change the under of items displayed in the slider and how to change the sort order. Item Limit To change the number of items displayed use the code below. <Xsl>...
View ArticleSwitch Themes Without a Page Refresh: Part 1
Many sites offer the ability for users to change the color and style of the site to fit their preference. SharePoint has this feature to some extend through themes but changing themes is not a very...
View ArticleSwitch Themes Without a Page Refresh: Part 2
So in part one of this post we got all the CSS and other theme file we needed to stuck them in a document library. With JavaScript you can change the CSS file a page uses without requiring a page...
View ArticleA Better Annoucements Ticker
A while back I did a post about how to make a vertical news ticker, in the comments several people pointed out problems with the code so I decided to write a better version of the code. Here it is. New...
View ArticleZoomable Photo Grid
I started on this post back in July and I am just getting around to publishing it. The out of the box SharePoint image library is nice and offers lots of options for viewing the images. However as more...
View ArticleSimple Search Box with Radio Buttons
So lets say you want users to be able to selectively search content from 3 (or more) different lists (The lists may or may not be on the same site). Out of the Box there is not an easy way to do this....
View Article#SharePoint Featured Content Slider Digitally Remastered for #SP2010
So I rewrote this web part to work a little better in SharePoint 2010. I made a few minor changes and improvements. If you can think of other improvements put them in the comments. Whats new Added an...
View ArticleVisual Best Bets in SharePoint 2010 without FAST
Using visual best bets is a very simple way to make your best bets stand out, if you don’t have Fast Server setup on your SharePoint environment this is not available out of the box. If you have FAST...
View ArticleInline editing in a dataview web part.
Inline Editing Options in SharePoint Designer When you create a list view dataview web part in SharePoint 2010 you have the option of enabling inline editing. Once enabled users can edit and create...
View ArticleSort and Filter SharePoint List Data with Angular JS
Angular JS is a Javascript that extends HTML with new attributes and allows you to create declarative templates and do data-binding. If you want to learn more about Angular go here. I have heard a lot...
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