May 2004 - Posts

• HOWTO: Fire a connection from the Drop-down view style of the Data View Web Part

  Hey there. FrontPage shipped a View Style for the Data View Web Part that doesn't really do anything. The style is the drop-down style. What most people want from this style is the ability to fire connections from it, so I wrote a KB article about this. Read More... Posted Friday, May 21, 2004 10:33 AM by frontpoint | 2 Comments

• Showing the total number of items when a view is paged

  This little tip just went through my inbox at work. If you have a DVWP and you want to make it page (so you show only 6 items at a time, for example), by default FrontPage does not add the Total number of items to display. In order to show the total, Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:22 PM by frontpoint | 0 Comments

• Data Views and linking to the WSS pages that display them

  I just posted a new howto article based on a post to the wss public newsgroup. In FrontPage 2002, if you choose to “layout customize” a CAML list view and change it into a Dropdown form field, it would automatically still link to the proper Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:55 PM by frontpoint | 2 Comments