I’m going to continue from yesterday’s overview with a drilldown of how I created a customized list to handle the display of external video content. The problem we are trying to resolve is how to manage access to external video content that is not stored in SharePoint.
Symptoms: Using MOSS 2007 SP2 and Office 2003 SP3, users complained that metadata on documents went missing. Consider the scenario below where we have a sample document library.
Each article will cover specific areas of HTML and CSS – such as layout, formatting, links, tables, HTML forms, starting with a basic introduction. I will show in each of these examples using SharePoint as our development platform for HTML and CSS, and will provide as many external resources as possible for assistance along the way.
Note from Mark Miller: I’ve been watching Jan Tielens’ work with jQuery for a while now and am in complete awe of some of the things he has accomplished. I’m very pleased to be able to cross-post his article on the “Search-as-You-Type” web part.
SharePoint’s wiki features are a bit like Rodney Dangerfield – they “don’t get no respect”. Yet, while on their own they may not be best-of-breed in the wiki world, they are still quite useful. In addition, they do something no other wiki system does, they bring the rest of SharePoint, with all of its power and flexibility, along for the ride.
Often it is necessary to show information in a way that cannot be created easily using SharePoint’s Rich Text Editor feature. For example, producing a table of information using the Rich Text Editor within the Content Editor Web Part often does not produce what we have in our mind’s eye. Why is formatting a table in Microsoft Word so much easier? I’m not certain why it is, but here’s a quick video on how you can use your Microsoft Word knowledge to create a table that can be presented with all of your desired formatting within SharePoint
Color coding a SharePoint calendar is a very common request. There are server based solutions and third party web parts, but that’s not what we’re about, right?
Christophe has continued to refine his solution for color coding and other effects, all OOTB, no custom web part or SharePoint Designer needed. Very useful.
It’s definitely worth poking around [...]
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