This post was also published at EndUserSharePoint.com… While seemingly everyone else in the SharePoint Universe is oohing and aahing over SharePoint 2010, I continue to plod along with my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. (Follow the library on Twitter: @jQSPWS.) I’m sticking with my belief that we’re all going to be using SharePoint 2007…
Cross posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… In my last post, I wrote about why I decided to start building the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. In this post, I’ll tell you a bit about what’s there and how it works. If you’re totally familiar with the SharePoint Web Services, this may all be old hat to…
In my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, one of the most popular functions is $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns. The SPCascadeDropdowns function lets you set up cascading dropdowns on SharePoint forms. What this means is that you can enforce hierarchical relationships between column values. This is sometimes called connected dropdowns or linked dropdowns (or probably other things I…
I was asked via an email from this blog to look at a thread in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum today. Of course, I was curious and headed right over there. Here’s the basic question (there’s lots more detail in the thread): My problem precisely and concisely is that I get tasked (A…
I ran across an interesting little trick in some code I’m working on today. As usual, not my code, someone else’s that I’m trying to decipher and fix. One thing that they are doing is sort of slick. There’s apparently an array created by the datepicker.js JavaScript called g_strDateTimeControlID which is populated with the IDs for all of…