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It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Written by: Gitendra Malla

On an early Thursday morning last August, I walked into the office with a hole in my stomach. Following my regular routine, I went to the kitchen area and tossed two loaves of bread into the great belly of the toaster oven, which boasts a 12 inch pizza capacity. As usual, I waited for the

Configuring Custom Fields in SharePoint Advanced Search

Written by: Ross Beurmann

Introduction This blog will show how to add the custom fields to the MetaData Properties in Central Admin as well as adding them to the Advanced Search page. It will also detail how to add the advanced search button to your site’s search box. This will allow for your customers/clients to search on the fields

Vision 21CARE featured on Battlefield Healthcare website

Written by: Jenni Hubacher

MetroStar Systems employee, Sergeant Ross Beurmann, who served in Iraq, was interviewed by MyFoxDC about our program, Vision 21CARE. This video has now been posted on the Battlefield Healthcare website relating to this very topic. IDGA’s 11th Battlefield Healthcare Summit will detail best practices and the next generation in combat medicine and rehabilitative care as

Performing Date / Time Calculation in DVWP Using XSL

Written by: Chris Lincoln

SharePoint Data View Web Parts (DVWP) may be leveraged to use complex conditional logic using XSL.  Such an example would be to highlight List Items in the DVWP that meet certain date/time criteria.  The following example will show how XSL may be leverage as a simple and robust solution. Case: New tasks (i.e. List Items created within

Happy 234th Birthday Marine Corps

Written by: Jenni Hubacher

“This 10 November I’ll fill my canteen cup to say a toast with you. The finest bunch of men, and women a man could ever hope to know. Many years ago I huddled with my men in the sleet and rain. A grand event I’m at this year, Medals and Dress Blues. It doesn’t matter

ODC Creation in Excel 2007

Written by: Ross Beurmann

ODC creation is a valuable tool in Excel. It is a function that is wizard based and has some extensible features such as inputting SQL Query’s to get specific data sets within the Database. This document will explain how to properly create and store ODC files to build Excel Pivot Tables and Charts against Data

Show Elapsed Modified Time in a Document Library

Written by: Ross Beurmann

Introduction The requirement has come to fruition to see the elapsed time from the “Modified Date” to “Now” on a reports document library. This is not possible in a calculated value unfortunately do to [Today] and [Me] values being consumed in a calculated value are considered “Volatile” by SharePoint out of the box. These use