This comes up all the time in the SPServices Discussions on Codeplex. When you are making most Web services calls to SharePoint, you have to use the InternalName rather than the DisplayName. This is true whether you are using SPServices, CSOM, or REST. You may see the InternalName referred to as the StaticName as well….
Here’s a cool trick you can use with RequireJS. I found it in a post by @rnsloan called Conditionally Loading jQuery 2.x. Since environments with SharePoint can often have a mixed bag of browser versions, this conditional setting lets us load jQuery 2.x when the browser can handle it (generally IE 9+) or jQuery 1.x…
This is a quick one, but it’ll be a post I return to over and over again. When you use Web storage (a.k.a. DOM storage) – localStorage or sessionStorage – to cache data, you’ll often want to know how much you’ve used already. Each browser gives you a different amount of storage to work with,…
In the prior two parts of the series, I covered the idea of an employee directory (or associate directory, or person directory, or whatever you call the people in your company/organization/commune) and how to create the basic page. Once again, I want to give credit to Ari Bakker’s (@aribakker) post that shows how to set…
Late last year I committed to put SPServices onto Github to encourage greater collaboration and contribution from the community. It’s definitely there now, and there are several things I’ve been struggling with since I moved it there: What to name each version How many versions to move into the repo Whether it actually will increase…