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…
These days, if you have a site running in SharePoint the odds of someone coming to it with a mobile device are increasing extremely rapidly. This is certainly true if you have an Internet-facing site, but also highly likely even for corporate Intranets. For this post, I’m going to pick on my friends at the Boston…
Have you ever tried to go to a SharePoint page in your browser and gotten an error like this? This screenshot is from SharePoint 2010, but this trick works in SharePoint 2007 as well. View Source on the page and you’ll see additional information down at the bottom, hidden inside a comment. sure, it’s still…
Earlier today I released SPServices v0.5.8. The headlines for this release are: more operations, including the first SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) only operation, and a new function, SPUpdateMultipleListItems. SocialDataService The Social Data Service Web Service is the first SP2010-only Web Service I’ve added to SPServices. This Web Service allows you to interact with the new social…
<UPDATE DateTime=”2010-11-18 10:36:00 EST”> Based on feedback from many people here and on Twitter, I’ve decided to build out my VM using Andrew Connell’s instructions. All of the admin types who have seen what I’m doing keep telling me things like “Well, if you want to do certain things down the road…” or “That’s not…
I got a question today from someone at one of my clients about how the All People page works. This is the page found at: http://[ServerName]/[SiteCollectionRoot]/[SubSitePath]/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0 Here’s the question: I’ve noticed that in the All People page of my department site, accessible from the People And Groups section, some users are listed with the Created…
The People Picker is the control you see on the page when a column or field needs to contain a user. (Not just the text representing a user’s name, which you should really almost never do, but the actual user object as understood by SharePoint.) It looks something like this. (This is an example from…
Today I asked a question on Twitter that I’d like to also ask here so that I can get longer replies (if anyone has one). Recently, I realized that some of my old blog posts get questions or comments that (at least to me) tend to be interesting and/or useful. So I figured I’d start…
<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> I often get questions like “Why would you use the Web Services? Can’t you just use managed code and be done with it?” Once…
Modal dialogs are great! They reduce postbacks! They pop up! And they may drive your users batty if they aren’t used to them. They can also get in the way if you want to understand the DOM for the forms while you are customizing them. Modal dialogs are great if they serve a good UI…