People reach out to me all the time to ask my advice on how to accomplish certain things with SharePoint. Sometimes I can help, and sometimes their questions are way beyond me. One of the benefits of being reasonably well known in the SharePoint space is that people tend to come to me with questions…
There was an interesting question over in the MSDN Forums the other day that I struggled to answer. It was a headscratcher, so I had to figure it out. In the thread, emfuentes27 wanted to know why s/he saw different results in SharePoint Designer than in the browser when using this formula: Not only had…
I have always wondered what would happen if I created a custom theme for jQueryUI using the excellent ThemeRoller tool and then wanted to upgrade my version of jQueryUI. It always seemed like the odds were that the existing CSS and accompanying image files wouldn’t change too much (I’ve found that there’s far less disruption…
This is the best New Year’s message to get. It’s still an honor and a thrill on the third go around. I’m more humbled each year I receive the award to be a member of a club which has such intelligent and interesting members. Thanks, Microsoft, for this true honor.
There was a post from Roger Langedal over on SPYam the other day asking about getting the value of a Managed Metadata column using jQuery. I hadn’t tried this before, so I thought I should give it a go. [important]By the way, if you are a SharePoint person (you’ve arrived here, so I think we…
Dan Antion (@dantion) did a great post over on his SharePoint Stories blog this morning called People Want Different Things. Dan does one excellent post per week on that blog. They arrive every Saturday morning, and reading it is usually one of the first things I do of a Saturday. Today’s was a great post,…
This is a really simple little thing. I end up writing little functions like this all the time, and never think much about them. But they are darn useful. This little function will hide a list column’s row in the form. You might want to do this on a NewForm but not the EditForm, for…
Well, Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2012 has come to a close, and I’m writing this post on the plane flying back to Boston. It was a humdinger of a conference. Not only was this the largest SharePoint conference on record, having it in Las Vegas made everything seem just that much bigger and flashy. Whether it…
This is just a quick post I’d like to use to gather your thoughts on where SPServices should go from here. At The Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, going on right now, many people I’m talking to are asking me about my plans. I’ve been mulling it over for a few months now, and…
Managed Metadata columns are so cool and so nasty at the same time. If you want to display the value of a Managed Metadata column in a SharePoint Designer workflow, you get a horrible representation of it like ‘TermText|ba7e2a4f-6602-47a8-aa81-bca54756a356’. The only solution I know for this is the one in the comment from Kristina P…