UPDATE: 2009-08-28: This library doesn’t sit still for long. We’ve released version 0.2.7 to fix a small issue and are already working on version 0.2.8. I just posted a new alpha version of our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services. In it, we’ve added 5 new operations, and a new function: SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns. Web Service Operation Options…
I got an email through my Contact page overnight that I thought I’d share some bits of as well as some of my response. Please let me introduce myself, I am a SharePoint Designer (note ‘Designer’ not developer :)) and my role is to develop our corporate Intranet using MOSS 2007. It is up and…
First of all, we need a snappier name. Any suggestions? Secondly, it was nice to be alerted by Tom Resing (take his SharePoint 2010 adoption survey if you have a few minutes) yesterday that one of his colleagues had used our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services in a real solution. Check out David McWee‘s…
Page layouts are great functionality that comes along with the Publishing Infrastructure in MOSS. They allow you to enforce a consistent structure and even consistent content in pages which you allow your users to create. However, sometimes (due to the powers that be), you may have access to a site with pages based on page…
I find myself retyping these two of my DVWP best practices over and over again in some form or another in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum, so I thought I’d capture them here for posterity. SharePoint Designer Generates Errors It’s not unusual when you are making quite a few changes to a…
We released our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services to Codeplex today. You can find it at http://spservices.codeplex.com; the current release is 0.2.3. We’ll keep the existing demo page up and running on the Sympraxis Consulting demo site and try to keep it current with each new release. The demo page basically mirrors our test…
I’m not sure that I’m enamored with this as a solution, but I thought that I’d post this function to see what folks think and whether there are any better ideas out there. (I’ve looked, and I certainly can’t find any!) I’m building this function to sit in our SharePoint jQuery library, so I can’t…
Here’s a great little trick from an MSDN Forum thread I was trying to help out in. Thanks to Playerkiller for this one. Suppose you’d like just a single DVWP to display numbers (either currency or regular numbers) in a different locale than the host site. This trick lets you do just that. Prerequisites: Numbers…
After the back and forth with Mike Oryszak about the last demo I built, my partner Pete and I decided that it would be really useful (and a fun exercise) to start building out a jQuery Library for the SharePoint Web Services. While many, many people have blogged about their point solutions for this (not…
Last week, I spotted a really nice blog post from Mike Oryszak which showed how to update an item without a form by using jQuery to post changes using the SharePoint Lists Web Service. It got me thinking about a lot of things that you might do to make SharePoint feel more “Web 2.0”. By…