SharePoint 2010 has some quirky architecture to handle row selection in list views. We’re all familiar with this from navigating around lists. In the list views, we have a few choices on how we select rows to work with (depending on the list view settings): Clicking the checkbox to the left of each item Clicking…
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Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are still my favorite tool in my SharePoint toolbox. Whenever I can use them to get the server to do the heavy lifting before the page is rendered, I do. jQuery and all of the fancy template libraries out there are grand, but in most cases it introduces a lag for…
There are so many times when software is designed to do “smart” things for you. In many cases, those things aren’t as smart as they seem in actual practice. Here’s an example of something that really gets in my way. Microsoft Office loves to convert “straight quotes” to “smart quotes”. If you’ve ever wondered why…
Next Thursday, May 23rd, 2013, I’ll be teaching a class for SharePoint-Videos.com called “JavaScript and jQuery for SharePoint 2013”. It’s an online class that is available to everyone, but it’s filling up fast. This will be my first class fully focused on jQuery with SharePoint 2013, and I’ve had a lot of fun putting it…