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…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-14″>: As of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector. This was actually “required” in previous versions of jQuery, but not enforced. </UPDATE> Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… A little while ago, I noticed that a fellow named Rob Doyle was asking some interesting questions about working with workflows…
Bjorn’s rules aside ;-) , here’s an oddity that I wanted to post to see if anyone else has run across it or has any ideas. In SharePoint 2010 the Tags and Notes dialog, which is available at the upper right of most pages by default, is supposed to show *everyone*’s tags and notes on…
I released SPServices v0.5.8 on 14 November, 2010, but I’m already hard at work on v0.6.0. A major goal for this release is to refactor the code, looking to reduce the size of codebase and improve efficiency, yet maintain readability. This should be a significantly improved release internally, and will require more extensive testing than…
Mark Rackley (@mrackley) is definitely earning the salary I’m paying him as the Marketing Manager for SPServices. (Yes, that salary is zero.) He posted another great article about Using SPServices & jQuery to Clone a Parent Item and All its Children today, and I wanted to point out a few things about it. I’m not…
There’s a conversation going on in Twitter right now about how best to use the #SPHelp hashtag. So many people are weighing in that "Reply All" is filling up the 140 characters! I thought I’d create a quick post where everyone can weigh in. Have at it!
I am not bigoted, nor am I jingoistic. It seems important to say that right up front. (If anyone who knows me well thinks that statement isn’t true, then I’ve got some work to do. Momma didn’t raise me that way.) I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a long time now, and I…
I’m not a big fan of clunky workarounds, but they do have their place in the world. This one occurred with a SharePoint 2007 site and IE8. Now I know that by default, this should work fine, but I’m not the first person to run across this issue. It may happen that if you are…
This post was cross-posted on NothingButSharePoint.com on 23 November, 2010. As with so many things these days, this post started off in a conversation on Twitter. Eric Ligman, Microsoft Global Partner Experience Lead, tweeted a question: “What would you like to see from #Microsoft from a social networking/community perspective? #socialmedia #mspartner“. Here’s the conversation from…