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While SharePoint’s Search features present a great deal of configurability and customizability, it sometimes cannot be tweaked enough to support every need. We received the following request: We have a WSS 3.0 store of documents that we would like to share. They are stored as list items and there are a number of different columns which help describe the documents. Some are quite straightforward, such as document name, document description, division and subdivision within the organisation that created the document. The one that is causing problems is a column called keywords. It takes its values from another list (sample values might be: [...]

This is just a short notice on what has to be one of the most curious little bugs we have come across in SharePoint 2010 so far: whether we use our own premier SharePoint Filter Web Part or the out-of-box ones, or attempt to create any other kind of Web Part connection: on a List View Page (AllItems.aspx etc.) in the browser, via the Connections option in any Web Part’s edit menu in the context of SharePoint Server development deployments installed on physical 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate machines (the client OS doesn’t matter in this discussion, Win 7 in this case is the server OS) then the connection gets LOST — routinely, repeatedly, reproducably — [...]

Just a quick note that PeopleZen, the SharePoint User Profiles Web Part now supports new ad-hoc view customization features.

FilterZen, the ultimate Filter Web Part for SharePoint, has had cascading drop-down filters for a while but we have now extended our offering.

We just added the capability to just show the current user to PeopleZen, the User Profiles Web Part for SharePoint:

We just introduced an outstanding new feature to FilterZen: the Dynamic Ad-Hoc Filters that give you a full-fledged Advanced Search user interface for any connected Web Part, and fully pre-populated with applicable fields for any SharePoint List: Previously, content managers, site designers or admins pre-configured individual filters with the proper settings for their end-users, but those had no way of customizing these. While this is still a valid use-case for many projects, with the new Dynamic Ad-Hoc Filters , end users can arrange and combine their own filters on the fly to search the List, Data View or other Web Part in a way that suits them [...]

Just a quick update: users of  FilterZen, the ultimate Filter Web Part for SharePoint 2010 and 2007 , can now greatly improve the end-user usability with a simple check-box option we just newly introduced: highlighting of filter values (ie. search phrases) in the connected consumer List View “search results”: The highlighting needs to be explicitly enabled in the FilterZen Web Part settings tool-pane (in the Interactive Filters section, see above-right screenshot) and of course you can fully re-style and customize this using CSS : simply use the span.rox-hilitematch selector. [...]

A few days ago we pushed out a silent minor update to FilterZen that finally gives you ultimate control over how to combine multiple SharePoint List filters. As the array of available operator options is now quite broad, this article provides a summary overview on how filters and values can be logically combined when filtering SharePoint Lists.

In SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0, whenever you were on a List View page (or added a List View Web Part or List-bound Data View Web Part), you always got (or could easily enable) a nice out-of-box View selector drop-down in the List tool bar. Switching Views was simply a one-click affair. In 2010, this is often no longer the case: you don’t get an easy one-click View selector as soon as you add a second Web Part to an out-of-box View page, and you also don’t get one when re-using the List as a Web Part on other pages. [...]