Cascading Dropdown Columns in a SharePoint Form – Part 2

UPDATE 2009-08-26: We’ve translated this logic into our jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. I *strongly* suggest that you look at that as an option, as it is far more robust.  And free! In my post last week entitled Cascading Dropdown Columns in a SharePoint Form – Part 1, I showed how to create cascading dropdowns,…

Simple Best Practices for Using SharePoint Task Lists

When I’m working on a project, we almost always use a SharePoint Task List to manage our outstanding tasks.  I’ve seen many people try to overcomplicate this process with complex workflows, roles, and permissions, but to me some simple tweaks and conventions to the basic Task List get you much further along and make life…

Cascading Dropdown Columns in a SharePoint Form – Part 1

UPDATE 2009-08-26: I’ve translated this logic into my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. I *strongly* suggest that you look at that as an option, as it is far more robust.  And free! UPDATE 2009-07-19: I’ve added a second post on this with a simpler example. It also contains a link to a demo page which…

Onward and Upward with jQuery: Reworking My External Links JavaScript

I’ve been watching so many folks out there doing cool things with jQuery, and it’s time to bite the bullet and get up to speed.  I wanted to take a look at something I’d recently posted about and see how I could do it with jQuery rather than pure JavaScript to see what the differences…