Ouch. Last week, several alert SPServices users reported issues with jQuery 1.9.0. (See: SPServices Compatibility Issues with the Minified Version of jQuery 1.9.0) It turned out that the minified version of 1.9.0 had a comment at the end of it that caused any jQuery library which followed it to throw errors. Today, I had a…
I’m still doing lots of work with SharePoint 2007, even while many of my compatriots have moved on almost exclusively to 2013 work. The new shiny stuff is fun and all, but just because it’s new doesn’t mean that all the good work is there. Both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 are still providing valuable collaborative…
Introduction This submission comes to us from an anonymous reader, who can’t publish the details under his (or her) name due to confidentiality issues. However, s/he has been able to generate some very useful charts with HighCharts using SharePoint list data as the underlying data sources. Charting List Data with HighCharts In the following code,…
Codeplex users tedka and danstaley have reported issues using SPServices with jQuery 1.9.0. You can read their issues here and here, respectively. I’ve done some quick testing, and the problem seems to be with the minified version of jQuery 1.9.0, *not* 1.9.0 itself. When I use the non-minified version, my test pages perform just fine….
Introduction Eric Alexander (@ejaya2) should be no stranger to those of you who have visited NothingButSharePoint‘s Stump the Panel forums. If you’ve ever visited those forums, odds are very good that Eric has helped you out. He’s a stalwart member of the SharePoint support community. Eric wrote a post on his blog about using SPServices…
Introduction Given the fact that so many people are using SPServices these days, I wanted to start posting some of the great things that people are doing with it out there. If you have a story about how you are using SPServices that you would like to tell, ping me using the contact form. Your…
People reach out to me all the time to ask my advice on how to accomplish certain things with SharePoint. Sometimes I can help, and sometimes their questions are way beyond me. One of the benefits of being reasonably well known in the SharePoint space is that people tend to come to me with questions…
There was an interesting question over in the MSDN Forums the other day that I struggled to answer. It was a headscratcher, so I had to figure it out. In the thread, emfuentes27 wanted to know why s/he saw different results in SharePoint Designer than in the browser when using this formula: Not only had…
I have always wondered what would happen if I created a custom theme for jQueryUI using the excellent ThemeRoller tool and then wanted to upgrade my version of jQueryUI. It always seemed like the odds were that the existing CSS and accompanying image files wouldn’t change too much (I’ve found that there’s far less disruption…
This is the best New Year’s message to get. It’s still an honor and a thrill on the third go around. I’m more humbled each year I receive the award to be a member of a club which has such intelligent and interesting members. Thanks, Microsoft, for this true honor.