September 2008 - Posts

• Declarative Workflows and User Context

  My name is Darren and I’m one of the workflow testers for SharePoint Designer. One of the ways that SharePoint Designer workflows operate that seems to be a point of confusion that I keep hearing about is that certain actions don’t always work when someone Read More... Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:02 PM by spdblog | 20 Comments

• Using “Disable Output Escaping” in Data View

  Hi everyone, Saiyue Yu here. For any field that may be rendered by SharePoint as HTML, you need to disable output escaping. At the code level, this essentially means setting disable-output-escaping = “yes” attribute for the field’s xsl:value-of tag in Read More... Posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 5:47 AM by spdblog | 4 Comments

• Use JavaScript to enable formatting of Data View UI controls

  /* body { font: normal 80% arial,sans-serif; }*/ h1 { font: normal 150% arial,sans-serif; border-bottom:1px black solid; margin-bottom:.25em; } h2 { font: bold 120% arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom:.25em; } h3 { font: bold 100% arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom:.25em; Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:43 PM by spdblog | 11 Comments

• SharePoint Conference - Building a SharePoint Designer Mashup (Part Deux)

  Hi everyone. For those of you who have been waiting on Part 2 of this blog, I am truly sorry. A valuable lesson that I've learned is - Don't break a blog article into multiple parts :) With that said, let's get right to it. For those of you who need a Read More... Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 5:20 PM by spdblog | 12 Comments