I’ve written previously about SharePoint Designer 2013′s Missing Design View here on my blog as well as on the Microsoft forums and elsewhere.. My goal in writing about this and making a lot of noise about it is not to simply complain. (We have way more complaining about everything out here on the InterWebz than we…
Are you as annoyed by this “The content type is in use” error as I am? Error messages like this that don’t give you a way to solve the problem are a sign of the devil to me. That Correlation ID does us no good (try to find the administrator in a large organization to…
Recently, I got this question in the SPServices Discussions: I’m new to SPServices, and I was wondering if it is possible to define some kind of out-of-the-box error handling procedure, like this: The only thing I am aware of is that you can do something like this: However, this solution will also execute the success-branch when…
Hello, all! I was away on a fantastic trip to Western Canada.I posted BETA1 before I left and there have already been over 500 downloads. I’m back and ready to push out the v0.7.2 release of SPServices as soon as I work through the feedback I received while I was gone. I haven’t seen any significant…
It’s been a bit too long since I’ve released a new version of SPServices. It was mid-February when I released v0.7.1, and I’ve been adding new functionality and squashing bugs since then. At this point, I believe that I have a pretty stable beta ready. If you have the time and the inclination, I’d truly…
We were trying to change an existing Managed Metadata Site Column from allowing single values to allow multiple values. When we did so, we received this error: /Lists/Projects : Cannot change this column to allow multiple values because it is currently being indexed. The error is a little bit misleading, as it might lead you…
[important]If you’re interested in this topic, also see my follow up post.[/important] Yesterday I posted in Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013 Preview for IT Professionals forum about my concern that that the Design View (and by extension, the Split View in case you were wondering) is no longer available in SharePoint Designer 2013. There are a lot…
The SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) has always been one of my favorite SharePoint conferences. It was the first big conference I ever spoke at, and the folks at BZMedia(where’s Katie’s photo???) who put it on are all aces, every single one of them. I only did one session at the latest iteration in Boston because I…
I’m a huge fan of Lookup columns in SharePoint. Choice columns just don’t give me enough oomph, and Managed Metadata Columns give me plenty of oomph, but not all that I need. With Lookup columns, I can lookup into the Title of a reference list, but also store additional information in that list which is…
A few months ago, I read a newspaper article – which unfortunately I can’t find – about the idea that software development literacy may someday seem as normal as reading literacy is today. I didn’t think it was far-fetched at all. In today’s world *everyone* touches a computer in some way, even if it’s only…