Finding the Contents of a SharePoint Rich Text Column with jQuery – And Changing It

After my post the other day about Finding the Contents of a SharePoint Rich Text Column with jQuery, I saw a tweet from my friend in Sweden, Christian Ståhl. http://twitter.com/#!/CStahl/status/35998002397192192 The Rich Text column contents are just HTML, so there’s really no limit to what you might do to manipulate it yourself with script. Let’s look…

SPTechCon Demo Code and Solutions for "Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery"

Those of you who attended my Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery session at SPTechCon SFO 2011 know that there were no slides, just demos. I wanted to give links to those demos in case you’d like to look at any of them to pick them apart or take them as starting points for functionality…

Using SPServices to Get the Display Names for a SharePoint List’s Content Types

My pal Tasha Scott (@TashasEv) tweeted a question today about how to get at the display name for a Content Type on a NewForm: Hello Gentlemen, As requested, I am posting my query from Twitter in regards to trying to pass the Content Type of an item into the PlaceHolderPageTitleinTitleArea, um, area of a New…

Finding the Contents of a SharePoint Rich Text Column with jQuery

I’ve had two questions this week about how to find the contents of a Rich Text column reliably with jQuery. Rich Text columns are rendered in a more complex way than just a nice textarea. Like some of the other column types they are a sort of hybrid, with some HTML elements and some script to…

SharePoint Material on Microsoft’s Training Catalog Site

Scott Jamison (@sjam) mentioned the Microsoft Training Catalog in his session at SPTechCon this afternoon called Build It and They Will Come: SharePoint 2010 User Adoption. There’s some great SharePoint educational material available on the site, which I wasn’t aware of before. (Why? I don’t know.)  Apparently, you may have access to some materials for…

Creating a Linked Source for Your Data View Web Part (DVWP) in SharePoint Designer 2010

Matt Bramer (@IOnline247) asked me a good question today in the USPJ Academy forums which I needed to think about and do a little searching to answer. That usually makes for a good blog post. I’ve tried to follow your aggregate data source steps in 2010 and I can’t seem to view a data source…

Showing All Versions of “Append Changes to Existing Text” in a Data View Web Part (DVWP)

While flying across the country to SPTechCon SFO 2011, I was going through some of my old “blog posts I should do sometime” lists and came across this cool trick. Brendan Horner (@hornerit) shared it with me months ago via Twitter and I socked it away for one of those extra moments. Well, I found…

I’m Speaking at the SharePoint Conference .ORG in Baltimore, March 6-9

Next month, I will be speaking at the SharePoint Conference .ORG 2011 in Baltimore (March 6-9).  My session is called, “Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery”. I’ve done this session quite a few times, but it’s never the same twice. It’s all demo, and I’ll be showing some of the old stuff, specifically SPServices form…

SPServices’ Load on the Browser for SPGetCurrentUser

Sometimes I catch a tweet out of the corner of my eye and feel a need to comment back and sometimes 140 characters isn’t really enough for me to fulminate with. http://twitter.com/#!/rolandbouman/status/30614787268280321 Well, yes, but maybe no. If the only thing you’re loading jQuery and SPServices for is to get the current user’s identity, then…