Podcast About SharePoint, jQuery, Web Services, etc. with Jeremy Thake of the SharePoint Dev Wiki

Jeremy Thake and I had a nice chat yesterday.  Morning my time, evening his; we could hardly be further apart, him in Perth, Australia and me here in Boston, MA, USA. Despite the time difference, I fully enjoyed the conversation.  I know that Jeremy knows his stuff, having followed his work through Twitter (@jthake) and…

SharePoint 2010 and the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services

I decided it was high time to take a look at how my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services might hold up in SharePoint 2010.  After all, it’s a whole new product, everything’s new and improved, etc.  Except it turns out that many things are exactly the same. This is actually not bad news.  For…

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services v0.4.7 Released

I released v0.4.7 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today. This release primarily contains enhancements to existing functions, but also a new set of operations for the Meetings Web Service. The big headlines are: Support for multi-select parent columns in $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns “Secondary” relationshipList support in $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns A new completefunc option for most of the functions (where…

StaticName versus DisplayName on SharePoint Lists

Good old George2 asked a question over at SharePointOverflow.com about SharePoint list and column names today.  If you don’t know it, SharePointOverflow.com is an excellent site to get high-end SharePoint assistance!  I liked my response, so here it is as a blog post. When you create a column on a list, both its DisplayName and StaticName are…

A jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (WSS 3.0 and MOSS): Real World Example – Part 2

Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In my last article, I showed how I used my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services to improve data quality by enhancing an out of the box form using the SPRequireUnique, SPDisplayRelatedInfo, and PreSaveAction functions. In this installment, I’ll show you how I created…