Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Author: davecavins | Filed under: General SharePoint, SharePoint Design | Tags: better forms, CSS, forms, jQuery, SharePoint | No Comments »
Over the next few weeks I will be writing a series of posts on how to improve the out of the box SharePoint forms by using simple CSS and jQuery solutions. These solutions will help improve usability as well as enhance the look and feel. Look for the first post later this week.
As a point of reference this is what we will be starting with.
Standard SharePoint Form
Stay tuned for more soon.
Posted: January 20th, 2010 | Author: davecavins | Filed under: General SharePoint, SharePoint Design | Tags: captify, Data View Web Part, jQuery, slideshow | 1 Comment »
Nothing makes a site look good like nice images. Using a large header graphic on you Sharepoint site can help direct users to some important information or announcement. Many non-SharePoint images use this technique to add interest to their site and attract visitors. Doing something like this in SharePoint will make your site a lot less ‘SharePointy’ (my made up word for sites that look like SharePoint). Here is how I did it.
Rotating images with captions
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Posted: January 6th, 2010 | Author: davecavins | Filed under: General SharePoint | Tags: CSS, icon, JavaScript, jQuery, SharePoint, user | 1 Comment »
When you are using a data view web part to display information including a person field SharePoint always shows the status icon beside thier name.
status icon
In some cases this is exactly what you want and can be very useful. But sometimes you just want to show a name and nothing else. With most fields you can just change the formatting options to change the display. If you choose to format the value as text SharePoint spits out this long html string.
<nobr><span><A HREF="/sites/site/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=2">Cavins, David R</A><img border="0" height="1" width="3" src="/_layouts/images/blank.gif"/><a href='javascript:' onclick='IMNImageOnClick();return false;' class='ms-imnlink'><img name='imnmark' title='' border='0' height='12' width='12' src='/_layouts/images/blank.gif' alt='No presence information' sip='email@email.com' id='imn_8,type=sip'/></a></span></nobr>
Format as
Each of the other formatting options also provides un-desirable results.
Using some basic CSS we can get rid of the status icon and format the text so it does not look like a hyperlink. First wrap the field value in an element with a class. I used a span with a class of “person”
<span class=”person”>
<xsl:value-of select="@Author" />
</span>
Then just add this css to the page.
.person nobr span a {
text-decoration:none;
color:black;
cursor:default;
}
If you want to take it a step further you can use jQuery to remove the ‘href’ attribute. Using jQuery we can target the container with the link in it and then change the href value.
$('span.person a').removeAttr('href');
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