Last week I co-presented at the May 2012 MNSPUG (#MNSPUG or @MNSPUG). The topic was about MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 Web Parts. One of my areas of focus was the Content Query Web Part. Because we had so much to cover, I didn’t get to dive as deep into...
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SharePoint: 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 output. To customize the output of a content query, there are two steps: Edit a file...
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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 anybody riled because now the entire company know they are “52”!...
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