SharePoint Apps: Alexander Malek's weblog
using data views and workflow to build apps in sharePoint designer
Welcome to VS extensions for WSS!
Download VSeWSS. Greetings from TechEd Barcelona! Today, we finally got to announce a project I've...
Date: 11/07/2006
My TechEd Slides
Thanks again to everyone who showed up for the SharePoint Designer talks at TechEd! As promised,...
Date: 07/05/2006
Changing the ‘return URL’ for SharePoint forms
Here’s a quick little tidbit that will help when building SharePoint applications. By default, when...
Date: 06/17/2006
So long TechEd (and thanks for all the fish)
Just about to take off for Seattle – finally catching up on a week’s worth of email backlog :)....
Date: 06/16/2006
SharePoint Designer at TechEd!
I’m excited to be going to TechEd this week. I'll be presenting two sessions on SharePoint Designer...
Date: 06/11/2006
5 Cool SharePoint Designer Features
There is so much stuff in SharePoint Designer 2007, it's hard to pick favorites, but if I had to...
Date: 06/01/2006
Welcome to Office 2007 and SharePoint Designer!
Now that beta2 of Office is out (grab it here for free!), I think it's a great time for me to switch...
Date: 05/25/2006
Cool Outlook Trick
One of my long pet peeves about Outlook is that if you search for a user in the “Global Address...
Date: 05/16/2006
Allowing Users to Filter/Search a Data View
In my previous post, I talked about how Web Part Connections can be used to pass data between Web...
Date: 04/25/2006
Using Web Part Connections to build a Master/Detail View
One of the great new features part of SharePoint v2 is this thing called "Web Part Connections",...
Date: 04/10/2006
How to Create a Data View that Shows a Single Item
When you first insert a Data View, the default "look" is always a tabular multi-item view; however,...
Date: 03/30/2006
Welcome to Office 2007 and SharePoint Designer!
Now that beta2 of Office is out (grab it here for free!), I think it's a great time for me to switch...
Date: 03/25/2006
Conditional Formatting Internals
The inner workings of Conditional Formatting are actually pretty straightforward. The key construct...
Date: 02/23/2006
Grokking "Show Visibility" in the Conditional Formatting Task Pane
Sometimes true Wysiwyg is not what you want in design view. For example, if you are using...
Date: 02/10/2006
Conditional Formatting Part 2
In addition to being able to show and hide content using Condition Formatting, you can also use the...
Date: 01/20/2006
Data View Conditional Formatting
One of the things XSLT makes really easy is "conditional formatting", i.e. having parts of your view...
Date: 12/27/2005
Wysiwyg XSLT Editing
We built the Data View on XSLT for a couple of important reasons: 1) We wanted there to be a "real"...
Date: 12/04/2005
How the Data View uses XSLT
In my last post, I talked a little about XSLT - how it can be used to mix data from an XML file with...
Date: 11/15/2005
Data View formatting: controlling the presentation of your data using 'Format Item As...'
Beyond look and feel, there is lots of other formatting support in the Data View. One of the most...
Date: 10/07/2005
Data View formatting: the basics
I'm very happy to say that formatting a Data View works exactly the way you'd expect/want - you...
Date: 10/06/2005
a story of data and views
As I mentioned previously, my main area of focus on FrontPage is features that help users build...
Date: 09/29/2005
list editing gone wild
In my last post, I mentioned the neato ‘Datasheet’ view that comes with SharePoint. I'm sure this is...
Date: 09/27/2005
a few of my favorite things...
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time in ‘code view’ getting your page to look just right. In...
Date: 09/25/2005
The Office
Today was our annual company meeting and all in all I had a great time. That despite my natural...
Date: 09/24/2005
I heart lists
During my time here on FrontPage (coming on 3.5 years!), I've spent most of my waking hours on...
Date: 09/22/2005