Duplicates in SharePoint Datasheet view / Export to Spreadsheet (Excel) Recently I encountered a bug in SharePoint where sometimes duplicate items appear when viewing items in Datasheet view in SharePoint.  This also happens when using the Export to Spreadsheet (Excel).  If duplicates appear in Datasheet view, they will also appear during Export to Spreadsheet and vice...

More on SharePoint “User not found” error with Reporting Services Following up my initial post on the SharePoint “User not found error with Reporting Services in integrated mode, I wanted to post another reason for the “User not found” error. If, somewhere in the site author tree, you have user accounts that no longer exist, you will encounter the...

Group by month, year, or anything else using a calculated column in SharePoint I found an excellent example of how to group by month in a blog recently. It does require using SharePoint Designer, however. An alternative to grouping this way is to create a calculated column and group on that. The end result looks something like this: : Basically, you just create a new calculated column...

SharePoint calculated fields reference If you ever use calculated fields (a.k.a. calculated columns) in SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0), there is an excellent set of examples from Microsoft WSS 2.0. There is also a newer set of examples for WSS 3.0, but they haven’t deprecated any of the formulas, so everything still applies. Update: I also...