SharePoint provides a solution for global navigation within a site collection and it works well.

I have been reading EndUserSharePoint for several years now and have used many of the articles to solve SharePoint business requirements for my clients.

I released a solution that would filter any list in SharePoint. The purpose of the solution was to make it easy to get to the information needed from the list currently being viewed. Original article: jQuery – List and Document Library Filtering Solution In the latest version 2.0 the purpose has not changed, but improvements have been added. Based on feedback from others there were a few features requested.

More searching didn’t turn up any other solutions. I tried various vbscript/excel functions in the calculated field to no avail. Then I started thinking clientside. I figured that if I could identify the fields in the list display, I should be able to manipulate them with jQuery. A quick search turned up a nice little piece of code by Paul Grenier on EndUserSharePoint.com. He has written a series entitled jQuery for Everyone and one of his articles was on Replacing [Today]. In his article, Paul talks about replacing a DateTime field with an Aging calculation. His article calculates a DateTime from the last modification date.

Just like eBay, I wanted to display the time remaining on auction items. I figured this would be a calculated field (based on a date the user chose for when the auction for that item ended) but having to calculate date differences based on the current date doesn’t work in SharePoint (the elusive [Today] problem). I thought jQuery would help and it did. Here’s how.

Paul Grenier and I are designing a new set of workshops to suppliment his ‘jQuery for Everyone’ series at EndUserSharePoint.com. As we were talking, I turned on the recorder so that any curious about what Paul is working could listen in and see where he is headed with the series and what his next set of live, online workshops will look like.

The third session of “Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar! Online Session” has completed. We are using this post to accept feedback from the participants so we can determine how effective the session was and how the web parts provided will be used.

Become Your Company’s SharePoint SuperStar! has become so popular, Paul and I decided to show you a demo of the things that can be done with a simple Content Editor Web Part and some javascript.

It is clear that Mark Miller is focused on the SharePoint end user and bringing solutions that any end user can use. He does a wonderful job presenting, in a way that the end user can understand and feels welcomed to interacting and asking questions.

The question of the day comes from Kirsten:
I have had the question come up about how Blackberry users are to access Sharepoint pages, for example newsletters that go out by email. Most people at our company use their Blackberry to check email when out of the office and this seems to be a major concern [...]