SharePoint Zen

Wild-card search with SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) Filter Web Parts

Philipp Schumann [ROXORITY] — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:24:14 +0000

Wild-card search in SharePoint can be tricky to implement. When you're dealing with List or Business data in List Views, Business Data Lists, Data Form or Data View Web Parts, you can easily achieve the desired effect of wild-card search by simply creating any kind of filter using the FilterZen Filter Web Part and then setting the filter operator from the default kind ("Equals") to the "Contains" operator. Here's how...

Using value-range filtering and CAML operators in Filter Web Parts

Philipp Schumann [ROXORITY] — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:21:20 +0000

Version 3.0 of FilterZen introduced advanced support for sending multiple filter values to connected List View and Data View Web Parts. One intriguing use case that inspired this capability was a requirement to filter a Date/Time column based on a certain date range, i.e. only setting an interval such as "between 1^st January 2008 and 30^th April 2008" and filtering a view on column data falling into this range.

With FilterZen, you can achieve this easily by configuring a FilterZen Filter Web Part as follows...

Highlights in FilterZen 2.6

Philipp Schumann [ROXORITY] — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:43:38 +0000

We've just pushed out FilterZen 2.6, which introduces outstanding support for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Enterprise Edition Business Data Catalog (BDC). So what's new in this release, among from a number of small performance and usability improvements and some impressive bug fixes?

New in FilterZen 2.4: SQL Data Filters

Philipp Schumann [ROXORITY] — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:03:34 +0000

We're excited to announce the newest update to FilterZen, the ultimate Filter Web Part for SharePoint. Among minor bug fixes and optimizations, this service release 2.4 introduces a brand-new, highly useful filter type: SQL Data Filters.

FilterZen How To: Create and Set Up Web Parts Programmatically

Philipp Schumann [ROXORITY] — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:52:13 +0000

We've quietly launched the newest release of FilterZen yesterday — without much fanfare yet, until this web site has been completely updated content-wise — a fantastic release that finally pushed the tool from being the URL Filter Web Part for SharePoint to being the Filter Web Part for SharePoint. URL filtering is still supported and got even better, but now there's a wealth of other highly useful filter types in there, many new powerful capabilities, and yet it's all still available in just one single Web Part, reducing complexity and clutter in your Web Part catalog.

We received one enquiry about programmatically creating and setting up the Web Part: a use case that was intriguing enough to warrant the following (code-heavy) tutorial.

jQuery Color Animations: Adding RGBA alpha channel support

Philipp Schumann [ROXORITY] — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:23:00 +0000

I like using CSS rgba colors — it's freaking awesome to be able to use alpha channels directly with a given color, without having to mess with the CSS opacity settings. I also make heave use of jQuery's pretty sufficient out-of-the-box support for CSS-based animations and transitions. Using John Resig's jQuery plugin for Color Animations, the same good old $.animate() calls can be made to work seamlessly with CSS color properties such as backgroundColor, borderColor, outlineColor, color etc. The catch: RGBA colors are ignored.

roxbase: Lisp Web Templating

Philipp Schumann [ROXORITY] — Sat, 17 May 2008 22:23:00 +0000

roxbase is a minimal and very simple Template System for Lisp. It isn't yet feature-complete and first and foremost intended for my own use.