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Performing Date/Time Calculation in DVWP Using XSL

Written by: Christopher H. 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

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

“Versioning” Update

Written by: Ross Beurmann

So the customer came back with a change to the “Versioning” request which was instead of Displaying the date to display the “Version” count.  This has lead me down an interesting change of the workflow which included the addition of a List to hold the version count as well as a calculation in the work

SharePoint Designer 2007 “failed to load the workflow”

Written by: Christopher H. Lincoln

To resolve the error “failed to load the workflow” when opening a declarative workflow in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007, please follow the steps provided below: Close Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 If using Microsoft Windows XP, navigate to the directory: C:\Documents and Settings\[USER NAME]\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint Designer\ProxyAssemblyCache\ If using Microsoft Windows Vista, navigate to the directory: C:\Users\[USER