Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Performing Joins Between Sharepoint Lists

Yes you can! Thank you Sahil Malik!

Today - Created, or Today - Modified

Yes, it is that simple. In a sharepoint calculated column, AFTER you perform the [Today] Sharepoint trick - you can use Today - Created, or Today - Modified in a calculated column to display X days old. Don't forget to format the column as numeric with no decimal places as we are reminded here.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Employee Training Scheduling and Materials

I've been working a lot with the Employee Training Scheduling and Materials application template for Sharepoint and wouldn't have found my way through without the help of the the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog:

Monday, July 21, 2008

Sharepoint Export Event

You may want to customize the Export Event in DispForm.aspx or you may want to include Export Event as a link in a Sharepoint workflow.

Using the directions posted here: http://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel/archive/2004/04/02/106767.aspx

I created a link in a sharepoint workflow email with mostly hard coded values of the site and the GUID of the list - but used a dynamic list item ID value using "Add Lookup to Body"

Here is an example working url to use to export a sharepoint event:

./Sites/mySiteWithEvents/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=109&Cmd=Display&List={9aa84cdc-1179-4da1-ba1a-f7a579955066}&CacheControl=1&ID=97&Using=event.ics