I got a question today via email that I though would be good to address in a post. The person who sent it didn’t want to publicly ask the questions so that s/he wouldn’t be “sowing any seeds of doubt for using” SPServices. Now that 2010 is here with its WCF services and Client Model,…
In SharePoint 2010, you’ll sometimes see that the Quick Launch has a draggable right border so that you can resize it, *if* you have the Tree View enabled. That seems sort of useful, eh? But why the heck is it there some of the time and not other times? We wondered just that and decided…
Yesterday I posted Are Ampersands Stored Differently in SharePoint 2010 Than SharePoint 2007? This one has really gotten me interested. I decided to try calling the Lists Web Service with SPServices to see if there’s a difference in what is returned for the exact same items in SharePoint 2007 versus SharePoint 2010 (post upgrade). Here’s what I…
In my conversations with IT departments about how SharePoint is used in their organizations, the topic of old and/or dormant sites almost always comes up. The IT way to think about this is to immediately bring up ideas like “archive” or “delete”. We can get that disk space back! Our job will get easier! I…
I’ve always prided myself in building Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) that are bulletproof, meaning they will run and render no matter what. However, I ran into something today which gives me pause. The setup on this is a little complicated, so bear with me. In SharePoint 2007, if you have a Lookup column which is based…