List administrators should be able to send e-mails to all the approved and registered users specifying some filters. For instance, the list administrator should be capable of sending e-mails to all the registered users from Canada. In this article, I will show you how to implement this requirement using Microsoft Word Mail Merge.

This is the fourth article in a multipart series that is intended to help you create mailing lists for your SharePoint sites or blogs without writing a single line of .NET Code. In the introductory article, I listed the project initiatives, requirements, and objectives. In Part 1, I created a secured backend where we will store the subscribers’ contacts. In Part 2, I configured the ‘Contact’ content type, created a subscription form for the mailing list and did some simple customizations to it. In Part 3, I utilized the thrilling DataFormWebPart to further extend and enhance the subscription form to meet the project requirements.

I was able to use SPD and not write a single line of JavaScript to automatically set a SharePoint Form Field based upon a Query String Variable.

This is the second article in a multipart series that is intended to help you creating mailing lists for your SharePoint sites or blogs without writing a single line of .NET Code. In the introductory article, I have listed the project initiatives, requirements, and objectives. In Part 1, I have created a secured backend where we will store the subscribers’ contacts. In Part 2, I have configured the ‘Contact’ content type, created a subscription form for the mailing list and did some simple customizations to it.

This post will show how to set up the ASP.Net drop down using a SharePoint list as it’s data source

Following on from my previous post we will now add the view of the ToDo List data. Open the site (if not already open) in SharePoint Designer.

Well, by far my most popular blog post has been about creating a Parent / Child relationship in SharePoint Designer and one question keeps getting asked over and over again: “How do I pass multiple values to the new item screen for the Child?” So, I thought it was about time I actually told you how.

In the previous article, I made use of the ‘Contacts’ list template, provided out-of-the-box by SharePoint, to create a list which will act as the backend for our mailing list. In this article, I will show you how to configure the ‘Contact’ content type, create a custom subscription form and do some sort of customization. The intention of these customizations is not only to make the subscription form look different from the out-of-the-box list forms but also to show you the power, simplicity, and efficiency of SharePoint Designer 2007.

I worked on creating a mailing list for a public facing SharePoint site. I really had some constraints because I was only allowed to use SharePoint Designer and the browser. I’m not used to these situations because I am mainly a software engineer. However, it was a very nice experience. I applied lots of knowledge and I worked around the constraints. I decided to put the experience and workarounds together into an educational series of articles to help SharePoint end users and administrators create their own mailing list without writing a single line of .NET code.

Aggregating data with a DVWP and a Linked Data Source can really save you lots of time and make your SharePoint lists do some great online reporting.