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…