Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Function reference calculated fields in Sharepoint

Some times you need a list of functions you can use in Sharepoint calculated fields. It seems that this is available in your local machine...just go to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\1033\STSLIST.CHM (if you got Office/Access 2007 installed)



or if you need an online version: wssdemo

or on your local sharepoint server:

http://server-name/_layouts/help.aspx?lcid=1033&cid0=MS.OSS.manifest&tid=MS.OSS.CH10176029&sq=calculated%20column


Show the year/week in Sharepoint

In order to group per week in a Sharepoint list, I have used the following function:

=IF([Completed date];YEAR([Completed date])&"/"&IF((INT(([Completed date]-DATE(YEAR([Completed date]);1;1)+(TEXT(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR([Completed date]);1;1));"d")))/7)+1)>10;INT(([Completed date]-DATE(YEAR([Completed date]);1;1)+(TEXT(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR([Completed date]);1;1));"d")))/7)+1;"0"&INT(([Completed date]-DATE(YEAR([Completed date]);1;1)+(TEXT(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR([Completed date]);1;1));"d")))/7)+1);"Uncompleted")

Actually the code to determine the weeknumber is:

=INT(([Completed date]-DATE(YEAR([Completed date]);1;1)+(TEXT(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR([Completed date]);1;1));"d")))/7)+1

So actually what I did was to first detect if the [Completed date] is valid (not empty), if it is it will show the text uncompleted. The next step was to check whether the week number is 2 digits if not then we will add an additional 0 to it, in order to make sure we can sort it correctly.

Modifying pages without the Edit page option in Sharepoint

Sometimes you want to customize a Sharepoint page, however the Edit Page item in the Site Actions Menu is not available. A good example for this is the Display and Edit page of a list item.

You can still do this by adding the ?ToolPaneView=2 parameter after the page url, eg. DispForm.aspx?ToolPaneView=2

Friday, January 30, 2009

Sunday, January 18, 2009

jQuery 1.3 issue - part 2

I have to apologize to the jQuery team, as it seems that jQuery does work. It seems there was a very strange issue with the Finjan software we are using at the office. When I downloaded jQuery at home, all seemed to be working.. after doing a file compare between what I got at the office and what I had downloaded at home, there was 1 line (the line I mentioned in previous post), different.

Anyway, this has been a lesson for me to double check the firewall and proxies..

Thursday, January 15, 2009

jQuery 1.3 issue/bug

First of all congrats to the jQuery team with the new 1.3 release, however maybe it is me only.. but it doesn't work. I have downloaded it used it on my test sites and none of them work: there is an issue in the jQuery code.

So I checked http://api.jquery.com and the same issue..(in IE7 and FF3)



Now I was interested what went wrong, downloaded dev version, checked the error message:



Line 2097 seemed the issue:

div.appendChild( document.createElement('Comment').data = "" );

I guess appendChild assumes an Element object, however:

document.createElement('Comment').data = ""

returns an empty string. Removing the .data="" fixes the issue for now, but I have no idea how it will effect the rest of the code.
I can't imagine that jQuery team released a non working version! Am i doing something wrong or do more people have this issue?

I still have some other pages which gives errors on events, but first a smoke :)

Thursday, January 1, 2009