Hide column titles from SharePoint lists and libraries with a small line of CSS

August 26th, 2013 | Posted by Marijn in code | css | customization | design | enduser | gui | quick tip | sharepoint | sharepoint 2010 | SharePoint 2013 | webpart - (1 Comments)

A quick how to on how to hide column titles in various versions of SharePoint with a small piece of css code that you can add in a content editor webpart Read more →

Show a message when your Content Query Webpart has no results

May 2nd, 2013 | Posted by Marijn in code | customization | design | enduser | information | sharepoint 2010 | sharepoint designer | technical | usability | webpart | xsl - (2 Comments)

Small piece of XSL code to let your Content Query Webpart show a message when it returns no items – for SharePoint 2010 Read more →

Find out what frond end server you are using in SharePoint

April 5th, 2013 | Posted by Marijn in 3d party tools | free | information | sharepoint 2010 | tools | webpart - (0 Comments)

SpServerName is a free, cool codeplex solution that lets you see on what front end server you are working without a bigg hassle. Read more →

Free webpart: Ontolica Search Result Action Webpart

February 27th, 2012 | Posted by Marijn in free | webpart - (0 Comments)

Ah, free SharePoint webparts..Not only do you find them on Codeplex, but a lot of partners have some cool parts as well, like Ontolica ! Read more →

Hide SharePoint WebPart header menu dropdown arrow and selection checkbox

February 9th, 2012 | Posted by Marijn in css | webpart - (4 Comments)

Working on a dashboard page for users with limited possibilities, I had to disable the close and minimize webpart functionality. Instead of just hiding the functions, I chose to have a minimalistic view and hide SharePoint WebPart header menu dropdown arrow. The webpart header consist of following parts: tr class =ms-WPHeader (which is the header) td … Read more →

Amrein Engineering: great source for free webparts

February 9th, 2011 | Posted by Marijn in free | webpart - (0 Comments)

A coworker just pointed me to Amrein Engineering. This company does SharePoint solutions and offers a number of free webparts with a little ad underneath. You can purchase them for a small fee, like 60 or 75 dollar. A few examples are: – poll – twitter feed – RSS feed – Weather – Google maps … Read more →

Change the site logo on a webpart page

October 25th, 2010 | Posted by Marijn in branding | sharepoint 2010 | webpart - (0 Comments)

At a client we designed a custom homepage for their intranet, containing news in categories and a flashy Silverlight picture rotator. We had a problem with the site logo however. On every site the custom logo would appear, but on this page, which was a webpart page, it still showed the old SharePoint logo. In SP … Read more →

Write html code in SharePoint via Calculated Columns

January 27th, 2010 | Posted by Marijn in quick tip | sharepoint | webpart - (16 Comments)

UPDATE: Find the 2010 version here !! Struggling to find a good way to display a url in a list (output generated by the codeplex listsearch project), I found this solution from PathToSharePoint. Normally, when you use a calculated column to create a dynamic link, you get the full url, like “http://www.test.com?id=9876”, when you want … Read more →