You may receive unexpected results when you apply conditional formatting to group footers in a Data View in FrontPage 2003 (833690)

SYMPTOMS

When you open a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site in Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, add a Data View Web Part to a Web page, group data in the Data View by using a group footer, and then apply conditional formatting to that group footer, you may receive unexpected results. For example, when you apply conditional formatting to hide specific content in the group footer, either incorrect content is hidden or no content is hidden.

CAUSE

This issue may occur if all the following conditions are true, in the order that they are presented:

In FrontPage 2003, you add a Data View Web Part to a Web page in your Windows SharePoint Services Web site.
On the Data menu, you click Sort and Group, specify one or more fields that you want to sort the data by, and then click Show group footer to group data by using a group footer.
You select the content in the group footer that you want to apply conditional formatting to, and then on the Data menu, click Conditional Formatting to specify the criteria that you want.

In this situation, FrontPage 2003 may not apply conditional formatting to the content that you selected in the group footer as expected. FrontPage 2003 may apply conditional formatting to incorrect content or may not apply conditional formatting to any content.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about how to work with Data Views in FrontPage 2003, see FrontPage 2003 Help. To do so, on the Help menu, click Microsoft Office FrontPage Help, type data views in the Search for box, and then press ENTER to view the topics that are returned.

For more information about FrontPage 2003, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802

For more information about Windows SharePoint Services, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/default.mspx