Travis Lingenfelder

Travis is a senior consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, but is passionate about all things relating to technology. Travis is a MCTS for SharePoint Server 2007, application development and configuration.
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Jul31

Interesting use of a Web Part

While working on a project I recently created a web part where I could specify a set of criteria and it would display hyperlinks to all site collections that matched.  The nice thing about this web part is that you get a list of site collections that match a wide variety of criteria.  Some of the criteria that could be specified was the template type, URL wildcard matching, web application, etc...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on Friday, 31 Jul 2009 10:57.
1 Comment | Categories: Development, PowerShell, SharePoint, Web Parts

 
Jul29

Advanced Data View Web Part Sorting, Grouping, and Filtering

The data view Web Part I must say is probably my absolute favorite thing Microsoft included with SharePoint. It also has some really nice filtering capabilities built-in. Most of us are probably familiar with the Sort and Group dialog that is part of the Common Data View Tasks shown in the image below. What most people don't realize is that the Data View Web Part has a very nice toolbar ...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on Wednesday, 29 Jul 2009 09:16.
5 Comments | Categories: Development, SharePoint, Web Parts

 
Oct24

Location Aware Content Query Web Part for use in Page Layouts

The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is a useful tool for displaying data within a site. If you want to use the CQWP in a Page Layout to rollup information relative to the current location you have to perform some manual configuration. After creating the page, you would have to tell the CQWP where to get its data from. Wouldn't it be nice though to create the page using the desired page layout wi...
Posted by Travis Lingenfelder on Wednesday, 24 Oct 2007 02:15.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint, Web Parts