Here’s a question I got in the forums at the USPJ Academy today. It’s a nice simple question, but the answer points out a cool thing about SharePoint forms: the PreSaveAction. I was watching the excellent video posted by Marc Anderson: Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery – Chaining from Selector.mp4. In this video Marc…
I decided it was high time to take a look at how my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services might hold up in SharePoint 2010. After all, it’s a whole new product, everything’s new and improved, etc. Except it turns out that many things are exactly the same. This is actually not bad news. For…
As is often the case recently, inspiration for this post came from a thread over at the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum. In this particular thread, I suggested using the PreSaveAction (see my post entitled Validation on SharePoint Forms – Part Four for details on how this works) and some script to do…
Trolling the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum is proving to be a great learning experience all around. I see questions I can’t answer which cause me to research them, and hopefully, I’m providing some answers which help others. One of the things I saw over the last few days was a link to…
Christian Ståhl left me a good question in another post: Have you tried to ‘formfill’ a SharePoint column for date and time with ‘today’s date’, that would be cool if its possibly? Of course it’s possible! You can pre-fill any columns value based on rules which you decide. There are probably a few common situations:…