Content Query Web Part – Getting Around Always Changing XSLT
Recently I was working on a project where I was creating a Anniversary and Birthday web part and came across the need to show the Birthday not as the typical MM/DD/YYYY but as MM/DD and we did not get...
View ArticleSharePoint: Customize Content Query output with XSLT
Introduction The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is SharePoint’s standard way to pull in data from libraries and lists. SharePoint 2010 outputs data as XML, so the CQWP uses XSLT templates to format the...
View ArticleCustom promo boxes in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013, it’s fairly easy to set up a list/CQWP combination that gives users a surprising amount of control over the layout and presentation of promo boxes. For instance, the setup I’m about...
View ArticleCustom Announcement display in SharePoint
In SharePoint, doing a custom rollup of a news article list is pretty easy: Point a CQWP at the list, apply a custom XSLT template, and you’re done. Unfortunately, when a user clicks on a link in the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013: Generate dynamic content using XSLT and a comma-delimited...
In SharePoint, the Content Query Web Part uses XSLT templates to display the results of each query. This is normally a fairly straightforward process (for XSLT). For an example, see the “Promo boxes”...
View ArticleGenerate and download an iCal event in SharePoint
Here’s a quick way to automatically generate downloadable iCal files for SharePoint events, where the events are managed in a custom list, and displayed using a Content Query Web Part and a custom XSL...
View ArticleCreating a Bootstrap Carousel in SharePoint
So you have a Bootstrapped SharePoint site. Everything’s great — until you want to add an image carousel. The default SharePoint image carousel looks like SharePoint, not Bootstrap, and is pretty bare...
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