Notes on SharePoint

Highlighting list view tables (when the user hovers over them)

Here is a quick tip to achive the highlighing effect below (if the user hovers over a row of the table it is highlighted) which is very easy to achive. This works well to help users read data in SharePoint lists. One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Read More...

Automatically create Word documents which include list fields

Creating Word documents containing List fields I haven’t seen much information on the web regarding how to automatically create Word documents in SharePoint and how to pass list item fields directly into a document. It’s fairly straightforward to get Read More...

Creating a Quiz Web application using SharePoint designer - Part 5

Building our results page – a journey into XSLT formatting! So far we have built a page to display our available Quizzes ( default.aspx) and passed variables from that page via a query string. The receiving page is ShowQuestion.aspx which displayed the Read More...

Creating a Quiz Web application using SharePoint designer - Part 4

Welcome to part 4 where we will complete the creation of our ShowQuestion . aspx page. In this part we will add a custom list form to capture the input from the user. We are going to populate our Answers list with values taken from the user, the Questions Read More...

Creating a Quiz Web application using SharePoint designer - Part 3

Welcome to part 3 of this article. We will now begin to build our ShowQuestion.ASPX page, as this is where most of the hard work is done I have split this into two sections. We will be working with the parameters passed from our Default.ASPX page to display Read More...

Creating a Quiz Web application using SharePoint designer - Part 2

Welcome to Part two of this article. In part one we created the three lists that our application will use. In this part we we are going to build a page which shows a list of the available Quizzes and allows the user to click on one of them and begin the Read More...

Creating a Quiz Web application using SharePoint designer - Part 1

Hi, my name is Brendan Clarke and I work as a partner technical specialist in SharePoint. In this five part article I will provide a step by step guide to build a simple Quiz web application using SharePoint designer. It’s perfectly possible to build Read More...