SharePoint Image Column, Image Upload and Attachments

The process for having an image associated with a list item in SharePoint WSS is painful to say the least. If you don’t believe me, try explaining the process to one of your business users. For that matter try explaining the process to any user. The process goes kind of like this – click attach [...]

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Visifire for SharePoint Charts

I came across a very cool tool called Visifire to create Silverlight charts in SharePoint WSS. This is similar to what I did with Dashboards and Data Views in an earlier blog post but has Silverlight animation. You simply upload the Visifire files to your SharePoint document library. Then reference those files [...]

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SharePoint – Connected Data Views

Connected Data Views are a way to add Master-Detail type functionality to a SharePoint web page. They are very simple and can add a lot of richness to your application. You should definitely add Connected Data Views to your toolbox of SharePoint tools. Here are the steps to create a connected Data View:

First you will [...]

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Creating a Dashboard (Bar Chart) in SharePoint from a Data View

I was in need of a simple way to show some bar charts for list data in a SharePoint site. Actually the requirement was to create a page of dashboards based on various status fields that management could view at a glance. I did some looking online and found a few resources but none that [...]

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Web 2.0 Popup – Using Lytebox with SharePoint

For some time now I’ve been adding this easy-to-use tool, Lytebox, to SharePoint sites to produce Web 2.0 popup windows. Besides the functionality it provides, Lytebox requires no server code and is simple enough for any type of SharePoint user to add to a site.
Here’s a screenshot of a Lytebox popup. You can try this [...]

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SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 – Modify A List Boxed View Style

Have you ever tried to modify the Boxed View style? I had a requirement to show three items from a SharePoint list in side by side boxed format in one row. The view was to only show a maximum of three items so I didn’t have to worry about additional rows and trying to get [...]

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SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 – Hiding A Link or Content for Anonymous Users

On a recent project, a customer wanted to have a section of content and links that would display only if the user was logged into the site. Anonymous user would not be able to see the section of the page. After a lot of searching online, I stumbled across Mark Wagner’s blog on SPSecurityTrimmedControl: conditionally [...]

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