Microsoft cloud engineer - SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, DotNet, Angular, JavaScript.
Microsoft cloud engineer - SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, DotNet, Angular, JavaScript.

Blog

History of /_vti_bin/

In 1996 Microsoft acquired the VTI company specially to help build it’s growing web product line.   VTI stands for Vermeer Technologies Incorporated.   The ubiquitous familiar folder began with FrontPage extensions and comes directly from what VTI’s developers decided to call it pre-acquisition back in 1996.    It remains unchanged today.      Now it’s even more visible with the continuation into the SharePoint product line and not likely to go anywhere soon.

 

Not a technical post but interesting anyway, right?

 

fp95
image
image
image
image
image
image
Image result for sharepoint designer 2010

 

image

MOVIE – Random Tip – XSLT

So you want to display a single random item from a SharePoint list?     It’s a common request and a very handy one for visitors.    Give your site a fresh relevant appearance with a dynamic web part.    Web 2.0 requires us site designers to keep pace with visitor expectations.   Let’s get to the fun part.    Here we’ll be using the Data Form Web Part (DFWP) sometimes called the Data View Web Part (DVWP) to present a SharePoint list with XSLT logic for the randomizer and conditional formatting to only show the target record.

Example Code   (random row XSLT.txt  1KB)
Sample Data     (Email Security Tips.xls  13KB)

 

Watch this 4 minute movie clip to see a live demo.     Steps are outlined below also.

 

image

 

  1. Create your list
  2. Open the target page in SharePoint Designer 2007
  3. Open Data View Manage Data Sources
  4. Ctrl+Click the Title and Body columns     (NOTE – other column names work too)
  5. Drag them on the page
  6. Add two CSS classes to the page header
  7. Locate the XSLT header with “<xsl:variable” entries and confirm you have the below three:
  8. Locate the <TR> for starting a new row.   Add the conditional pair below to apply the right CSS class when needed.
    
     
        showMe 
     
     
        hideMe
  9. Apply extra formatting  (bold, colors, icons) to achieve a unique look for your audience.

JQuery Accordion – Expand Collapse All

I looked over many threads and posts on many sites and wasn’t able to find code that worked for me.    Some of it would be close.   Others buggy.   Below I’ve outlined the JQuery code that worked perfectly for my needs and I hope you find it helpful too.

This example was deployed to a SharePoint page so the “/_layouts/images/plus.gif” was used to leverage the OOTB graphics for a plus/minus icon feel.

Full Example Source Download     (accordion.zip  73KB)

 

image

 

image

 

Parent .HTML



 Expand All


First Header


first body


Second Header


second body


Third Header


third body

Supporting .JS 

// bind to accordion object
$(document).ready(function(){
	$('#container').accordion({
		header: “h3?
	});
});
// actions taken upon clicking the expand all (collapse all) link
$('#container #expand').click( function() {
	// if link was expand then show and toggle text
	var currHTML = $('#container #expand').html();
	if (currHTML.indexOf(“Expand All”)>0) {
		$('#container .section').slideDown();
		$('#container #expand').html(“
 Collapse All”);
	} else {
		// if link was collapse then hide and toggle text
		$('#container .section').slideUp();
		$('#container .section').each(function(i){
			if (i==0) $(this).slideDown();
		});
		$('#container #expand').html(“
 Expand All”);
	}
});

© Copyright 2016
@ SPJeff

Return to Top ▲Return to Top ▲