Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, I’m releasing SPServices 2014.02. This is the second release in 2014 (which you should be able to glean from the release name). If you’re using an earlier version of SPServices, I strongly recommend an upgrade. Read on. The most important change in this release is due to…
I get questions all the time about how to set up permissions in SharePoint. Permissions are hard. It’s not just you. And if you don’t do them right, they turn into a tangled ball of string in a drawer that no one can ever get untangled. Here are some of my rules of thumb. They…
Have you ever “lost” a Web Part on a SharePoint page? That happened to me (again) today. I tried and tried to figure out why I wasn’t seeing the contents of the Web Part. I knew it had some, and I knew what it should look like. I’ve been bitten by this before, so I…
I’ve had some false starts moving SPServices to Git and/or Github over the last few years. If it weren’t for Josh McCarty’s (@joshmcrty) help on every release, I wouldn’t even have gotten SPServices onto cdnjs, since they use Github. (Yes, SPServices is available via CDN at cdnjs and has been for several years now.) I’m…
Whenever I get into conversations about forms in SharePoint (or anywhere else for that matter), the conversation almost always turns immediately for workflow. It seems to greatly surprise a lot of people when I say that sometimes workflow is irrelevant for forms. I’d say that 80%+ of SharePoint forms have no workflow at all. (I…
This is a simple thing, but because at the moment it’s sort of invisible, you may need a little help understanding it. The Content Type Hub is a nice capability that lets you create your Site Columns and Content Types in one centralized Site Collection for syndication across your farm. It’s an excellent idea to…
My good friends at Dynamic Owl in Vancouver have been doing some amazing things of late. Not only are they some of the smartest people in SharePoint consulting, they have a relatively new product offering called Bonzai Intranet. Based on their years of consulting, the folks at Dynamic Owl realized that they had been building…
Last week the SharePoint community lost a valuable member and I lost a friend. Dave Coleman, who had been in and out of hospital since last year about this time, finally succumbed to cancer. Dave was a SharePoint Server MVP, active community member, and educator. He was also a husband, a father, a grandfather, and…
Be careful what you ask! @Daniel_the_Nerd Nope. Want to build it? — Marc D Anderson (@sympmarc) October 30, 2014 Well, no more than two hours later Daniel had sent me the stub of a vsdoc file for SPServices. Now I don’t use Visual Studio, but I suppose if you like this kind of hand-holding, Intellisense…
Today Randy Drisgill (@drisgill) alerted me to the fact that Jeremy Thake (@jthake) and Steve Walker (@sharepointing) were talking about me in the Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 018 with Steve Walker on SharePoint UX developer guidance. While they do indeed say some very nice things about me (those payments to Redmond are working out),…