Thanks,
M.

Yup, I’m seeing a lot of them, too. It’s really great to see the cool things people are coming up with.

M.

if jQuery is not loaded, the alert will return “undefined”.

This applies to any object. For example you can check if the JSON object is available:
javascript:alert(window.JSON)

This won’t give you the version number though.

That works for now, but since there have been several changes to what works for this I created the SPFilterNode function in SPServices. This should help future-proof your code, as I can change the function to cover any changes the jQuery team makes in the future.

M.

It shouldn’t. What versions of jQuery and SPServices are you using? If they are current, please report it as a bug on the Codeplex site.

M.

$(xData.responseXML).find(“z\\:row, row”).each(function(i)

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10377

_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push(“fillDefaultValues”);

function fillDefaultValues()
{
var queryVal = $().SPServices.SPGetQueryString();
//alert(queryVal['UID']);

userPicker = $().findPeoplePicker({
peoplePickerDisplayName: “User”, valueToSet: queryVal['UID']});
}

$.fn.findPeoplePicker = function(options) {

var opt = $.extend({}, {
peoplePickerDisplayName: “”, // The displayName of the People Picker on the form
valueToSet: “”, // The value to set the People Picker to. Should be a string containing each username or groupname separated by semi-colons.
checkNames: true // If set to true, the Check Names image will be clicked to resolve the names
}, options);

// Find the row containing the People Picker
var thisRow = $(“nobr”).filter(function() {
return $(this).text() == opt.peoplePickerDisplayName;
}).closest(“tr”);
var thisContents = thisRow.find(“div[Title='People Picker']“);
var thisCheckNames = thisRow.find(“img[Title='Check Names']:first”);
if(opt.valueToSet.length > 0) thisContents.html(opt.valueToSet);
if(opt.checkNames) thisCheckNames.click();
var thisCurrentValue = thisContents.text();

return {row: thisRow, contents: thisContents, currentValue: thisCurrentValue, checkNames: thisCheckNames};
}

It’s a little bit old and I am not saying you should use it as is, but it contains some interesting ideas. In particular if you remove the “http:” part from your script it’ll make the Google CDN work with both http and https protocols.

Are you sure that $ProjectName has a value when you create the URL?

M.

I have this link:

“…/it/GOHP/Lists/QW Project Deliverables/NewForm_Cust.aspx?PID={$PID}&Source=/it/GOHP/QWins/QWProject.aspx?ID={$PID}%26ProjectName={$ProjectName}”

By using your %26 in the URL I get the ProjectName= in the URL just not the data. The data was read from a query string into the $ProjectName parameter. After entering in a new record I want the user redirected to this page with the ID and ProjectName populated. Any thoughts.

Thanks,
Jayamin

I found out recently that sometimes, web part authors embed an old version of jQuery in their web part. It can’t be upgraded or changed and using a newer version causes the web part to break. This has presented a few problems on pages where I’ve use the newer versions of jQuery. One thing that you can do in this instance is re-alias the jQuery object.

Normally jQuery is aliased to the $, but there may be other libraries or even older versions of jQuery that already have established the $ alias. The timing is crucial but you can alias your jQuery object to something other than the $. If you load a new version of jQuery prior to the offending web part, you can assign the new alias to a new name. For example $17 could be your new alias for version 1.7.x. Once your version of the library loads, execute the following command : var $17 = jQuery.noConflict(true);

That will assign $17 as the object for your version of jQuery. When the other web part is loaded and loads the older version of jQuery, it will use the regular $ alias. In your code, make sure to always use the $17 alias which will be the version you require.

Search the jQuery documentation for noConflict() for more examples.

Hope it helps.
Dave
@dipetersen

I totally agree on adding / removing classes with my jQuery.

I think in the past I may have been guilty of using jQuery.css to over come some complications with older browsers but hopefully those days are way behind me.

Is there a way to show participants of the workflow before they are assigned a task? Scenerio a serial workflow is assigned to 4 participants (A, B, C & D). I want to show all tasks, even if they haven’t been assigned yet.

That way you can see all approvers that need to act on the workflow, even if they aren’t assigned yet.

Thanks,
TD

I created a .txt file with the coding below to keep my calendar expanded, uploaded it to SharePoint 2007, then used the Content Link to the text file in the CEWP below my calendar web part however, now the top link bar is not working. Am I missing something. Thanks, Robin

var yScroll = window.pageYOffset || document.body.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollTop;var y = window.innerHeight || document.body.clientHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight;var xScroll = window.pageXOffset || document.body.scrollLeft || document.documentElement.scrollLeft;var x = window.innerWidth || document.body.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth;var cover = document.getElementById(“cover”);cover.style.height = (y + yScroll) + “px”;cover.style.width = (x + xScroll) + “px”;function expand() {if (document.referrer != location.href && !location.href.match(/CalendarPeriod=((week)|(day))/i)) { GetMonthView(’11111111′); }else { cover.style.display = “none”; }}window.onload = function() { expand(); };

hmmmm Spoke to the client and I have given an emphatic “No” to the button option ….

Yep, I like that as I can pretty much keep my CQWP intact, I get to play with jQuery and I don’t need to code up a feature receiver in VS2010 ( my other thought). Ironically, very few of the sub sites tasks have assigned users to your approach makes a lot of sense.

I will let you know how I get on .

Daniel

In the situation were you want to provide functionality wrapped in a plugin, its usually easier that you package the CSS in the plug-in I would think. Just obviously to save the user the time to have to add css styles if its just one class they will have to add.

Personally I would only use jQuery .css() to test things and and only in development not on production since it posses unnecessary bloat in code and should to an extent be inefficient.

Another thought would be to run the script for each item only “on demand”. Put a button on each item that, when clicked, fetches the info for that item. It would speed up the whole page and in most cases, they may not want to see the values for every item, anyway. In any case, it may make sense to rethink the requirements.

M.

Any thoughts on my options before embark on a re-engineering my CQWP ;-(. BTW I do think your approach is viable given this so obvious failing in SharePoint – Probably ensure “Group By” always works in rolled up content.

Daniel

Great add on advice for the post. If you’re thoughtful about it, you don’t necessarily need to use the .css() function at all (or minimally). Keeping the styling and manipulation as separate as possible will only make things easier on yourself in the long run.

M.

Another good practice (and I’ve heard you espouse it before but just not in this post) is to add/remove classes to an element rather than write CSS directly when adding interactivity. jQuery’s .addClass(), .removeClass(), and .toggleClass() can all be used. This allows you to keep all of your CSS in a separate stylesheet rather than mixing it in with your scripts. So instead of doing something like $("#message").css("color", "red"); you could do $("#message").addClass("alert"); assuming your stylesheet has .alert {color:red;} in it. Later on if you decide to make alerts orange or to make the font bold or something, you only have to update the .alert styles in the stylesheet rather than hunt through all of your scripts to find any interactivity that uses alerts.

I would be happy to test this with you!

Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, I did warn my client that this dashboard will get slower and slower as more content is added to the sub sites.
Yep, it is the ….”xwy.com not responding due to long running script” I am using a CQWP so I am not sure how easy paging is to implement. Neither, if memory serves is it possible to make this a connected web part.

Pan B: I wonder if if I could follow your SPDataSource fix – cross site DVWP and implement paging there. However, I think CQWP is much more elegant.

Plan C: would be building a cross content rollup visual Web Part – not my fave choice as I am a bit Visual Studioed out!

In the interim I have set the SPservices GetListItems call to async and upgraded to jQuery 1.6.4. In which case the page renders sometimes without any error – however the page is now too slow to be viable.

Daniel

This method is truly a stop-gap, but it works. If you’re putting a large number of items on the page, maybe you should consider some sort of paging to reduce the number of Web Services calls. you could also fiddle with making things asynchronous so that the pagfe isn’t hung up.

What type of errors are the user’s seeing? Even if there is a lot of data, you shouldn’t be getting script errors unless it’s the “long running script” sort.

M.

for most large clients, it’ll still be one of the other providers.

M.

M.

If they’re on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, then that checkbox is required and you’re working with reduced functionality :-/

You’re right that the documentation could use a little love. Similar to the settings for Lync to work on a Mac… buried away a little.

My all sub site tasks (CQWP) dashboard has worked well up to now. Unfortunately, the client has reported script errors due the sheer number of rows being processed. by the above jQuery.

I guess I have a number of options going forward.

1) force the CQWP to only return rows for a given subsite – say user selectable from a drop down list., then trigger your JQuery code.
2) somehow tune the existing approach to run much faster with or without updating to the latest versions of SPServices and JQuery.
3) any other suggestions

I would welcome your thoughts.

Daniel

It amazes me that, for a service which is supposed to aim at the lower end of the market, the docs and config stuff is so unintelligible. It would seem to be a direct effort to support needing outside help for any small organization to get things set up. I don’t want to learn “admin stuff”, nor do I fell like I should to set this up.

I’m just trying to open things up as wide as possible on my end so that I can communicate with clients who also use Lync. GoToMeeting, Skype, WebEx, etc. all make this fairly painless.

M.

I would suggest adding some script to mirror the functionalioty. There are quite a few posts out there with examples.

M.

If you add another O365 user with their domain you should be able to screenshare, audio chat, video chat without a hitch.

The Lync audio/video and desktop sharing support that you’re referring to is more the fact that AIM/Yahoo/MSN wouldn’t know from a protocol perspective what it is that you’re sending them in terms of a request when you try to share or connect.

Is there a possibility that i have this dragging functionality without activating the “metadata navigation…” feature through custom branding?

Any pointers would be very helpful

Thanks and regards
Shiva

Good question. Do you want to display an icon (like the paperclip) if there are 1-n attachments, the icon for the particular filetypes, or something else? The basic idea would be to adapt the xsl to emit the markup you want.

M.

The stylesheet can really be anything you want. First set things up the way you want them to look with one list, then switch to Crosslist mode. Also check this post for more info.

M.

Person or Group columns are tricky because they contain a chunk of markup which is unique for each occurrence on the page. If you are in SharePoint 2010, you can use @Author.id and do your counts on that.

M.