SPServices 2013.01 is almost ready for release and I’m hoping that when you see the coolness here that you’ll want to get your hands on the beta to do a little testing with it. I’ve put together a pretty simple demo page to show how great it can be to use jQuery .Deferred objects (aka…
Thanks to all who came to my session “Creating a Great User Experience in SharePoint” today at SharePoint Saturday Boston 2013. As promised, I’ve posted the slides to SlideShare. You can either view them on SlideShare or below. As always, I learned a lot from the conversations and other sessions. It’s great to have the chance to…
The Problem My Office365 tenant has become half-upgraded from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. (If you want to read more of my whinging about this, checkout this thread on SPYam.) This leaves me in the unenviable position of having to use SharePoint Designer 2013 (SPD2013) with my SharePoint 2010 Office 365 tenant. Unenviable because, as…
Introduction Rainer Wittman (@RainerAtSpirit) and I have been emailing back and forth for a few weeks now. He’s been trying out the new alpha of SPServices 2013.01 which includes jQuery promises aka Deferred objects capabilities (soon to be a real release, I promise!) with the Durandal JavaScript framework. Durandal is a framework for building SPAs,…
It’s supposed to be simple to set up an External Content Type with SharePoint Designer. You just create the connection, flick a few settings, and voila, you’ve got external data available in SharePoint. At least every time I’ve seen it demoed, it works really well. The blog posts out there also paint is as a…
SharePoint blogs are no one’s favorite. There is just enough functionality there to make them useful, but not enough functionality to make them useful enough. On top of that, blogs are sites, not lists. That seems counterintuitive on one level – isn’t it just a list of posts? – but it makes sense on other…
Here’s something really exciting. I’m one of nine authors for an upcoming SharePoint book we’re putting together with Mark Miller (@EUSP), good old Mr. EndUserSharePoint himself. It’s going to be all about using script with SharePoint in interesting and (we hope!) useful ways. As with our SharePoint 2010 at Work: Tricks, Traps, and Bold Opinions book, we’re each…
This git thing gets a lot of press these days and I figure it’s time to learn it. I selected git as the code repo on the SPServices Codeplex site quite a while ago but never used it. Now I’m trying to figure out what would be useful. SPServices has been a single file, as most of…
Sahil Malik had an extremely useful little post about a month back that I emailed to myself and then promptly forgot. Today, Mikael Svenson pointed back to Sahil’s in a post of his own that is also very useful. I’m going to steal a little from both posts for this one. I hope Sahil and Mikael don’t…
I get many great questions in the SPServices Discussions (that’s the best place to ask questions about SPServices, IMHO, not the MSDN forums, or StackExchange, or on the Documentation pages on the SPServices site, where I rarely see them). Some of them deserve to get wider exposure by becoming a blog post, and here is one of…