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A new location for the SharePoint User’s Toolkit
Christophe Humbert
The SharePoint User’s Toolkit has a new official page: http://sp2010.pathtosharepoint.com/SharePoint-User-Toolkit/ The old location will remain active but won’t be updated anymore. The new site is based on SharePoint 2010 and hosted by fpweb.net. Thanks to the support of fpweb.net, I expect the new site to be more reliable and offer a better user experience. The [...] [read].
Posted: 1 day ago. |
Page Redirect
Christophe Humbert
The last addition to my SharePoint User’s Toolkit: a “Page Redirect” script. It allows you to redirect your users to the correct location, when they try to access an outdated page. Get your custom copy here: http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Page-Redirect.aspx The script includes several options: pop-up message, timer, inline message, and the choice to display or hide the [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10 |
Easy Tabs: Even Better with Print Friendly!
Christophe Humbert
Author: Kerri Abraham, Revenue Cycle Sharepoint Coordinator, Mercy Medical Center. Several months back I was tasked with a training build for our highest turnover position. The main function of the job was a 7 screen registration process, and because of government regulation and business requirements, every field on these 7 screens needed thorough instructions. The [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 19th '10 |
Easy Tabs: version 5 is out!
Christophe Humbert
Version 5.0 (beta) of the Easy Tabs is now available in the SharePoint User’s Toolkit: http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Easy-Tabs-v5.aspx The main improvements: - The Easy Tabs now work in both SP 2007 and SP 2010. - Stylesheets are directly included in the code; for SP 2010, the colors can be modified in the Easy Tabs builder (see above screenshot). - [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 26th '10 |
Working Hard on the Easy Tabs v5
Christophe Humbert
In the past couple weeks, I have been working on the Easy Tabs v5. I have completely rewritten the script to make it more generic. The objective is to accomodate various layouts, including SP 2007 Web Part pages, SP 2010 Web Part pages, and wiki pages. I am also taking this opportunity to include some of the options [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 30th '10 |
HTML Calculated Column: solutions for SP 2010 (Part IV)
Christophe Humbert
This series assumes that you are familiar with the “HTML Calculated Column” . Part I: fallback to SP 2007 Part II: edit in SharePoint Designer Part III: deal with individual Web Parts Part IV: brute force At the end of part III, we were left with this question: how do I know when I need to [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
HTML Calculated Column: solutions for SP 2010 (Part III)
Christophe Humbert
This series assumes that you are familiar with the “HTML Calculated Column” . Part I: fallback to SP 2007 Part II: edit in SharePoint Designer Part III: deal with individual Web Parts My current Text to HTML script, written for SharePoint 2007, works as follows: find all hyperlinks (A tags) on the page if a tag [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
Live demo: “Full Screen” tab
Christophe Humbert
I am considering adding two new options to the Easy Tabs: Full Screen and Print. This is the result of ongoing discussions with Kerri Abraham. The “Full Screen” option is similar to the usual overlay/lightbox solutions. Only my solution is lighter, and doesn’t require an external library like jQuery for example. Check out the live demo and let me know what [...] [read].
Posted: Sat, Jun 12th '10 |
Easy Tabs: Bait them with Humor!
Christophe Humbert
When Kerri contacted me with a technical question about the Easy Tabs, a detail in the screenshot she sent immediately caught my attention: an original way to drive user adoption! I asked her to tell us more about her idea. Author: Kerri Abraham, Revenue Cycle Sharepoint Coordinator, Mercy Medical Center. I always worry that my end-user [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 8th '10 |
Interactive Charts using Google Visualization API (via SharePoint JavaScripts)
Christophe Humbert
Proposed by Alexander Bautz, a client side charting solution for SharePoint that relies on the Google Visualization API. To understand the difference between the Google Chart API and the Google Visualization API, check out this page: http://code.google.com/apis/charttools/docs/choosing.html 24.05.2010 The code for the file "ChartUsingGoogleVisualizationAPI.js" is updated. Modified the array of fields to use for chart [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 8th '10 |
Case study: course compliance report (Part III)
Christophe Humbert
Author: Larry Pfaff, Sr Systems Analyst, Convergys Corp. Adding The Final Pieces Can you see the finish line yet? As you remember in Part 1 we reviewed the requirements and expectations of the data. This output needed to be easy to read and use by all end users throughout the entire organization and most of [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 8th '10 |
Are the Easy Tabs security trimmed?
Christophe Humbert
A question I received from Liz: “I just downloaded your EasyTabs webpart and think it works great. My question is: how does it work when you have different permissions on different webparts? Is it security trimmed?” Good question, and you definitely need to be clear about security implications when you start adding code to your Web [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 2nd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 issues with calendars
Christophe Humbert
I am having the following issue in SharePoint 2010: when I set the chrome state of a calendar to “minimized” (under Edit Web Part > Appearance), the calendar still gets displayed on the page. This is an issue I already reported with the beta version. Recently, I also posted my question on the MSDN forum, [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, May 31st '10 |
HTML Calculated Column: solutions for SP 2010 (Part II)
Christophe Humbert
This series assumes that you are familiar with the “HTML Calculated Column” . Part I: fallback to SP 2007 Part II: edit in SharePoint Designer In this part II, I am going to show a straightforward method that can be applied via SharePoint Designer. In SharePoint 2010, lists are rendered through a new component, the XSLT List View [...] [read].
Posted: Fri, May 28th '10 |
HTML Calculated Column: solutions for SP 2010 (Part I)
Christophe Humbert
This series assumes that you are familiar with the “HTML Calculated Column“. The “HTML Calculated Column” is a powerful method that I created for SharePoint 2003 and 2007. It allows you to display in your SharePoint lists any kind of HTML: color coded text, inline charts, tooltips, embedded videos, etc. It works in two steps: 1/ Build [...] [read].
Posted: Fri, May 28th '10 |
Tasks Lists Roll-up beta, available for download
Christophe Humbert
A new addition to the SharePoint User’s Toolkit: a Tasks Lists Roll-up Web Part. When placed on a SharePoint 2007 page (wss or MOSS), this Web Part will aggregate tasks from the current site and all its sub-sites. After downloading the Web Part, you can add it to your page via the page import option, or include [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, May 25th '10 |
Live demo: calendar with color coding and tooltip
Christophe Humbert
This week, Mark Miller and I will be hosting our live online workshop series dedicated to calendars. Mark will start on Tuesday (“Create a SharePoint Master Calendar Solution“), and I’ll join him on Wednesday (“Add Color Coding and Tool Tips to Your SharePoint Calendars“) and Thursday (“SharePoint Calendar Resizing and Enhanced Views“). To give you an [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, May 17th '10 |
Case study: course compliance report (Part II)
Christophe Humbert
Guest author: Larry Pfaff, Convergys. I left off explaining how I went from raw data to manipulating views to achieve a table layout with usable results. Continuing forward I will describe how to achieve this output through the use of Calculated Columns (CC) in a custom list. It’s fairly easy to build a table in [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, May 11th '10 |
Client side scripts: how will they behave in 2010?
Christophe Humbert
If you’ve been using some of the client side code available on Path to SharePoint, or other similar blogs, you might be interested in what’s going to happen when you migrate to SP 2010. I can’t provide a final answer, and we’ll see exactly how they behave when we have access to the final release. But for now let [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 19th '10 |
Maximum number of IF statements in a Calculated Column?
Christophe Humbert
If you said seven, or eight, you spoke too fast…
I just answered a question on the Stump the Panel forum, and thought others could be interested.
The context
I recently published a new version of my tool for color coding calendars and lists. This tool generates a formula that associates each item of a choice list with [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 12th '10 |
Introducing the SharePoint User’s Toolkit
Christophe Humbert
In the past few weeks, I have upgraded several of my scripts, and made them available here:
http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/
I am calling this central place the “SharePoint User’s Toolkit“. From now on, this is where I’ll publish my client side scripts and other enhancements to the standard SharePoint UI.
The SharePoint User’s Toolkit is still under construction. In particular I am [...] [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 11th '10 |
Cross-Site List Snapshot, version 2.0 beta
Christophe Humbert
Last year I published a simple method to display a SharePoint list in another site. I am releasing today version 2.0 beta of the jQuery script:
http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Cross-Site-List-Snapshot.aspx
I have renamed it “snapshot”, to better reflect its (limited) capabilities. The snapshot created on another site doesn’t have all the features of the original view, for example context menus or [...] [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 9th '10 |
Case study: course compliance report (Part I)
Christophe Humbert
A couple weeks ago, Larry Pfaff shared a screenshot that impressed me. First, it made full use of my “HTML Calculated Column” method, including in a same report color coding, a pie chart and a progress bar. But also it offered an elegant, condensed layout, different from the traditional “one row per item” tables.
I asked [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 8th '10 |
Tutorial: add color coding to your SharePoint 2007 calendar in 15 minutes
Christophe Humbert
Environment: SharePoint 2007 – wss or MOSS (no SharePoint Designer or third party application required).
Audience: confirmed end user, power user.
Permission level: design or full control.
Estimated time: 15 minutes.
0- Before you start
1- Select your colors (5 minutes)
2- Create your calculated columns (3 minutes)
3- Set up your calendar view (2 minutes)
4- Render the colors (5 minutes)
5- If you want to undo [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 6th '10 |
Live demo: SharePoint May 2010 events, color coded
Christophe Humbert
Today I decided to test my color coding tool on Mark Miller’s excellent SharePoint Community Calendar. I borrowed a slice (the month of May) and applied my formulas: you can compare the original calendar with my color coded version.
In the beginning of next week, I’ll publish an updated version of the tool, and a step by step tutorial.
Note [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 1st '10 |
Color coding: help me translate the formula!
Christophe Humbert
I recently published a new version of my formula generator for color coding calendars and lists:
http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Color-Coding-Calendar-List.aspx
I wrote the formula for the English version of SharePoint. I’d like to offer other languages, but for this I need to know how to translate the following functions:
IF function: IF([Column name]=”string”,Yes,No)
Concatenate symbol: &
Update [April 5]: I’d also be interested in th [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 1st '10 |
Planning my trip to California
Christophe Humbert
I am currently planning my trip to California, for the second half of April. I’ll be in the San Diego area the week of April 19th, and possibly in the San Francisco area the week after.
As usual, I am trying to make the most of such trips, meet with user groups, and discuss business opportunities with partners and [...] [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 31st '10 |
Quick update: Image Rotator in SharePoint 2010
Christophe Humbert
Today I decided to test in SharePoint 2010 the Image Rotator I released yesterday. I just followed the instructions and filled out the form:
http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Image-Rotator-Lite.aspx
It worked like a charm, I didn’t notice any difference in behavior between SP 2007 and SP 2010.
Of course, we have to wait until the final SharePoint release in a few weeks to confirm [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10 |
Image Rotator Lite, version 2.0 beta
Christophe Humbert
After the Easy Tabs and color coding earlier this month, I am releasing today a new, beta version of the Image Rotator: http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Image-Rotator-Lite.aspx
Lite means that it is written in plain JavaScript and doesn’t require any external library like jQuery. The ”heavy” version, written with jQuery, allows some additional transition effects.
A key feature of this image rotator is that [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 30th '10 |
Color coding: new formula generator, testers welcome!
Christophe Humbert
I am working on a new formula generator for color coding calendars and lists, to replace the current one. If you are already using the HTML Calculated Column, I’d appreciate if you could give it a try and tell me how it goes.
You’ll find the new formula generator here:
http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Color-Coding-Calendar-List.aspx
The new form includes a color picker, [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 25th '10 |
This week’s workshops: visualization, Gantt and Sparklines
Christophe Humbert
I am presenting three live online workshops this week, with Mark Miller from EndUserSharePoint.com. As usual, each participant receives a sandbox to try out the solutions we provide.
March 23, 2010 – Inline Visualizations in SharePoint
An entry level workshop where you’ll learn how to add color and other effects to your SharePoint lists. Here is a live demo:
http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/Lists/TasksVisualization/AllItems.aspx
March 24, 2010 [...] [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 22nd '10 |
Image Rotator Lite: your needs?
Christophe Humbert
I am currently working on the next release of the Image Rotator that I plan to release this month. I have already identified a couple improvements that will make their way in the new version.
There are many image rotators available on the Web – I have built a couple myself. The interest of the one I propose [...] [read].
Posted: Sat, Mar 20th '10 |
Easy Tabs Lite, version 4.0 beta
Christophe Humbert
Today I am releasing a new, beta version of the Easy Tabs:
http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/sharepoint-user-toolkit/Pages/Easy-Tabs-Lite.aspx
For a live demo, go to the Path to SharePoint home page.
Why Lite?
I am maintaining two flavors of the Easy Tabs. This one is public, written in plain JavaScript. There’s another one written with jQuery, which allows to include some additional effects. The jQuery version [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 18th '10 |
Update: boxed view with one column only
Christophe Humbert
Last year, I published a sample script that changes the layout of boxed views from two columns to a single column.
Several readers reported that it didn’t work for them. Larry Pfaff investigated the issue, and came up with the following update:
<script type="text/javascript">
var boxedview = document.getElementById("WebPartWPQ1").innerHTML;
boxedview = boxedview.replace(/<td width="1.5%"> <\/td>/gi,"<\/tr><tr style=' [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 17th '10 |
A workshop to get started with jQuery
Christophe Humbert
Over the past year, the use of jQuery to enhance the SharePoint interface has exploded. Maybe you were tempted to take the plunge, but as an end user you were intimidated by this technology you know little (or nothing) about?
Well, this coming Monday is your chance to get on the bandwagon. Mark Miller and I [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10 |
Preview: new version of the Easy Tabs Lite
Christophe Humbert
An update for the Easy Tabs Lite – version 4.0 alpha – should be ready in a week or so.
The new version will handle cases when a Web Part has no title (it will simply ignore it, instead of triggering an error in the current version). Also I have ”widgetized” the script, which means that you won’t [...] [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 4th '10 |
My scripts and SharePoint 2010 – Where I am at
Christophe Humbert
Like many other SharePoint consultants, I don’t expect to see a lot of SharePoint 2010 migrations this year. The majority of companies that have invested in an Office 2007 deployment will choose to wait and see. Technical constraints (server requirements, integration with client side applications) will reinforce this behavior.
That said, sticking with SharePoint 2007 for now doesn’t mean that [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 23rd '10 |
FAQ: Easy Tabs and third party Web Parts
Christophe Humbert
While my Easy Tabs work perfectly in SharePoint 2007 with OOTB Web Parts, I often hear complaints from users that their don’t work with third party Web Parts. Why is that?
The Easy Tabs rely on each Web Part following a standard pattern (see a simplified diagram on this page, “behind the scene” tab). This gives [...] [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 23rd '10 |
Copyright question (and no answer yet)
Christophe Humbert
In the past two years, more and more SharePoint blogs have started sharing snippets of code. Some feature innovative ideas, and maybe you’ve wanted to apply them on your own sites. But did you first check if you’re allowed to do so?
Original content published on the internet is protected by copyright laws. It means that you [...] [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 21st '10 |
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