I’m using Thomas Bradley’s Signature Pad plugin for a project, which I’ve used successfully before. The twist this time is that I want to save the signature as an image rather than just as JSON. There’s a method called getSignatureImage() that works just fine to grab the signature as a base64 string, like so (this is…
I ran across an article on ZDNet today entitled The advent of the citizen developer. In the article, Dion Hinchcliffe posits that we may finally be at the cusp of a citizen development revolution. Yes! I’ve been arguing for years – in one way or another (See, for example, The Middle Tier Manifesto: An Alternative Approach to Development with…
When you create a new subsite In SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online (Office 365), you have the option to use the same permissions as the parent site or use unique permissions. If you use unique permissions, you’re taken to a page where you can set up the special groups for the subsite. Generally, this is…
As I discussed in the first part of the series, my goal is to find all the sales opportunities in a Site Collection and process them based on their characteristics. To do this I’ve created a Site Workflow – SharePoint 2013 flavor – that makes a set of REST calls to traverse the Site Collection…
I had the chance recently to have chat with TechnologyAdvice’s Josh Bland (@JoshBlandTA). This interview was a part of the TechnologyAdvice Expert Interview Series. The series explores a variety of business and technology landscapes through conversations with industry leaders. There’s plenty of great content there, including interviews with some of the speakers for the SharePoint Technology Conference – SPTechCon…