During the last 12 months Twynham has moved beyond using SharePoint as an intranet and extranet to developing Internet facing websites in SharePoint.

During the last 12 months Twynham has moved beyond using SharePoint as an intranet and extranet to developing Internet facing websites in SharePoint.

During the last 12 months Twynham has moved beyond using SharePoint as an intranet and extranet to developing Internet facing websites in SharePoint.

During the last 12 months Twynham has moved beyond using SharePoint as an intranet and extranet to developing Internet facing websites in SharePoint.

During the last 12 months Twynham has moved beyond using SharePoint as an intranet and extranet to developing Internet facing websites in SharePoint.

I was seeing what I could do to create pages a little more useful than you get using vanilla SharePoint without having to crack open Visual Studio. One of the things I wanted to do was display a SharePoint list on the screen and add a filter to the screen that would allow a user to filter the list with a date field value greater than or equal to whatever a user entered. Sound’s simple right?

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.

Although implementing a KPI dashboard like this one might look complicated it is not. By using the Data View Web Part you can create your own dashboards plus extras. The solution does not do anything special (only displays colorful icons) but your managers will love it.

When creating data view web parts in SharePoint Designer, and dealing with libraries or lists that contain folders, the Item and Folder Scope setting becomes pretty important. In SharePoint views, it’s always possible to create a new view of the list with no folders, by configuring the “Folders” section in your view settings. Unfortunately, the same functionality is not as obvious in SharePoint Designer. When you create a view with no folders, and then convert it to XSLT in SPD, the folders always reappear.

Most blog engines allow you to display a list of blog posts grouped by month. Unfortunately out of the box SharePoint blog site does not give you that ability. Here is a simple solution how to overcome that limitation