For a long time, I’ve been reluctant to try to add caching to SPServices. The main reason is that I couldn’t think of a reliable way to do it that wasn’t going to cause potential issues and it also had to be backward compatible. Well, I think I’ve cracked that nut. In the current alpha…
The other day I did a post in which I was grousing about what a pain it is to move individual lists from a 2007 environment to a 2010 environment. Even worse, I wanted to move the lists from a hosted WSS 3.0 environment at FPWeb to Office365. Because of this, there was no access…
I’m positive I’ve run into this little issue before, but since I don’t seem to have done a post on it, I stymied myself again. A client of mine spotted a nice post from Ben Tedder (@bentedder) showing how to Create a Classifieds Listing using SharePoint 2010. It uses a bunch of Content Query Web…
It’s a long holiday weekend here in the U.S., I’ve been sick with some sort of flu for all of it, and it’s really nice and sunny outside. So what am I doing? Trying to migrate my Sympraxis Consulting demo site from my FPWeb-hosted WSS 3.0 site (yeah, I’m a little behind) to my Office365…
There have been many milestones in the SPServices saga, but this one sort of caught my eye and since I got a screen grab, I figured I’d do a quick post.. Even with over 48,000 total downloads of all of the versions I’ve released, this version seems to have really taken off, hitting 6,000 downloads…
Many times when you have a dropdown column in your lists, you’d like to show the values sorted in a different order than alphabetically. Sure, you can use a Choice column and order the choices in any way you’d like. However, in the cases where you want the dopdown to be based on a Site…
Many end users are taking advantage of all of the goodness that jQuery provides, whether by adding simple effects like a sliding Quick Launch, more sophisticated form enhancements like SPCascadeDropdowns from SPServices, or even writing their own scripts for more complex solutions. More than ever, the distinction between “end user” and “developer” is blurring. IMO,…
A very smart designer who I respect a lot asked me a question today via IM that I thought would make a good post. …so I know jquery is great for doing things with CSS – but I think of only using it when I can’t actually get to the tag or it needs to…
I could probably write an entire book on the strange things that SharePoint Designer does, but I don’t have time for that. Instead, it’s yet another blog post. Today I was adding some Data View Web Parts (DWVPs) to a page, and I took the shortcut of copying and pasting the code of one to…
I’ve had a wonderful time over the last four days as an attendee and speaker at two great SharePoint events. The first one was SharePoint Saturday Boston, right in my own backyard at Microsoft’s offices in Waltham, MA. Helping Pradeepa Siva, Talbott Crowell (@talbott), and Geoff Varosky (@gvaro) with the organizing a bit certainly gave…