During the course of a customization and branding effort in SharePoint you are likely to find that you want to style web parts to look different from (Dare I say better than?) the stylistic treatment default to SharePoint.

This is a jQuery script I wrote that looks at each web part on the page and, based on each web part’s chrome setting, adds containers around the web parts.

One of the many decisions users experience with SharePoint is to decide which of the various types of web parts should be used, how to configure the web part for what is needed or deciding to create a customized web part to accomplish what is needed.

Here are 8 ways companies can extend SharePoint’s out-of-the-box capabilities to better fit their social computing vision.

ToolTip 2.0 now makes it easier to implement by only needing you to identify the name of the link as you see it on the page.

How do you add a title tag to a webpart page that doesn’t have one? Simply use Javascript (no jQuery necessary) in a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP):

I think that they will be popular as a deployment model for applications that use the SharePoint.Client namespace with javascript and Silverlight. I can certainly hide the ribbon with javascript on the client – but I shouldn’t have to. I remain concerned that there is no good answer to #2 with regards to client side code. It would be nice if SharePoint allowed some sort of trusted caller infrastructure that allowed elevation to site owner. This should be possible at least with Silverlight

The other day I was hungry and needed to eat. I didn’t have time nor desire to sit down and enjoy a full blown meal, yet I knew I didn’t want anything fast food. I needed to refill but didn’t want a poorer quality substitute. In a local market I found the [...]

When there are no items displayed in a list, SharePoint displays a generic message. How and why do you customize the display text in a data view web part? There are just some cases where this message needs to be customized, so that the text is more specific as to why there are no items displayed. In this example, Laura Rogers shows a SharePoint task list web part that is filtered to only show items assigned to [Me]. Then, she shows how to quickly create a data view web part, with a custom message letting end users know why the web part is empty.

Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
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Would you like to display a SharePoint list or library on another site in your site collection? This can be accomplished using SharePoint Designer, by creating a data view web part. This screencast shows exactly how this is done, with the example of an “Announcements” list on the top [...]