Wow. Whew. The 2014 episode of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference aka #SPC14 is a wrap. What an amazing experience. It seems obligatory for anyone who has more than two eyeballs on their blog to do a wrap up post after a conference like this, and I didn’t want to be the exception. So here you…
Last Wednesday at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas – in a clear lapse of judgment – harmon.ie named me the seventh most influential SharePoint person for 2014. Read more in Announcing the Top 25 SharePoint Influencers for 2014 on the harmon.ie blog. I’m honored and humbled to be recognized as even in the…
A few weeks back, I sat down (virtually, of course) with Andrew Connell (@AndrewConnell) and Chris Johnson (@LoungeFlyZ) to record an episode of the Microsoft Cloud Show. Andrew was in Florida, I was in Boston, and Chris was way around the world in New Zealand. Ah, the wonders of modern technology. The only place to…
I’ve been using KnockoutJS to build functionality into SharePoint pages for a while now. (In case you’ve ever wondered, yes, it’s the same thing people mean when they simply say “Knockout” or “KO”.) Setting everything up with KnockoutJS can take a bit longer than hard-wiring things with jQuery – depending on what you are trying…
Hot on the heels of the short-lived SPServices 2013.02 and it’s younger, wiser sibling 2013.02a, comes SPServices 2014.01. I wanted to do a new release with some cool new functionality, but Microsoft really forced my hand with some changes to title attributes on some column types. (See: Office 365 Update Changes ‘Display Name’ on Required…
In SharePoint 2007, we could build lists that contained as many items as we wanted and access them in any way we wanted. We may have done stupid things that were bad for server performance, but if we knew what we were doing there were few limits. We had the mythical “2000 item” rule of…
For quite a while now (my annual subscription is up for renewal soon), I’ve been using Spoon.net‘s virtualized browsers. I’ve tweeted about Spoon.net’s “magic browser page” many times, but I think it’s post-worthy. Not only are the virtualized browsers great for testing sites, they also really come in handy when I need to access a…
In researching how to fix the issue with Office 365 Update Changes ‘Display Name’ on Required Fields in SPServices, I came across some true awesomeness from James Padolsky (@Padolsey). jQuery is eminently extendable, and people do it all the time by creating plugins, additional libraries, etc. After all, it’s all just JavaScript, right? However, I’ve…
Introduction Sometimes people ask me why I’m still bothering with the crufty old SOAP Web Services in SPServices. After all, there are REST and CSOM to play with and Microsoft has decided to deprecate the SOAP Web Services. Well in some cases, the Shiny New Toys don’t let you get the job done. In cases…
I get interesting questions all this time. This one came from a client who was trying to use GetListItems with SPServices in SharePoint . Hey Marc, I’m trying to do a GetListItems operation on tasks list and I’m having trouble with the “Task Status” column. This is SP2013. None of the above work and I…