SharePoint Use Cases

In Part 1 of this post I outlined a use case for using list items counter. In this post I will describe how you can create such a web part.
Prerequisites:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
One contacts list (or any other list) with some sample data
Basic knowledge of HTML and XSLT

Step by step guide

Open the page you [...]

A customer recently approached me with a simple request: how to show total number of employees on his home page.
They are using a SharePoint Contacts list as a central phone book for their company. It is an interesting use case and I will try to provide more details about it in future posts.
Although you can [...]