June 2008 - Posts

• CSS Style Bar Graphs using Data Views

  Hi everyone, Jon here again with a quick how-to on creating a simple bar graph of your data by using CSS and the Data View features of SharePoint Designer 2007. Among other things, this can give you a great KPI style view of your data without too much Read More... Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 5:44 PM by spdblog | 7 Comments

• Data Source Issues and Workarounds

  Hey everyone! I’m Steven Weber, and I want to talk about a couple of issues with SharePoint Designer and SOAP services, and more importantly, provide tips on how to get around them. Issue 1: Accessing SQL Server SOAP objects One of the cool features in Read More... Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 11:37 AM by spdblog | 9 Comments

• Show Your Data in a Tag Cloud with XPath Expressions

  Hi everyone, Jon Campbell here again with another great way to visualize your data in using DataViews. Tag clouds are a popular way to visually show how various terms are related to each other by assigning weights to each term, then using those weights Read More... Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:15 PM by spdblog | 12 Comments Attachment(s): TagCloud.zip