November 2007 Entries
I had a link list on a WSS v3 site and i wanted to show this list on other sites and subsites. So i decided to plug to the datasource and extract the links using a DataView Webpart. It all went well and good but i wanted another view that will show users latest links added a week ago for example . So of course decided to use a filter using the Field Name - Created Comparison - Greater that or Equal to Value - [CurrentDate] But there was no way to change the CurrentDate from the Filter Criteria Menu ......
I have been thinking of how i'm going to have one master document lib and have other document lib retrieve or show documents from it. But after doing some search for a tip i came across Todd's blog about making use of content type. I reckon this solution could be handy if you want users to be able to see links to documents on the fly from another lib,lists etc.. Enjoy ......
In the days of asp.net 1.1 when using DataGrid and exporting to Excel i never came across this error since there was no master pages etc.. But at the same time having master pages makes life easier and at the same time some troubles. One of them is when using Ajax with GridView with a functionality to export to Excel. The error you get is "Control 'ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_... of type 'GridView' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server" when clicking on your export button. After ......