Today, July 6 at about 4pm EDT, SPServices v0.7.1 received its 10,000th download Because I’m amused by this sort of thing, I was watching on my iPhone from my friend’s beach house. The animated GIF below shows it as I saw it happen. Notice that Toby Mai (@GrumpyTech) tweeted me right after he did the…
http://twitter.com/sympmarc/status/218712378165047296 This tweet caused a lot of questions back about what I meant and how I did it. so a blog post. I have been having a number of problems with IE9, the most annoying of which was that files I downloaded wouldn’t open or run once they were fully downloaded. The dialog at the…
Well, I’m back from SharePointFest Denver – for the record, red eye flights suck – and I want to thank the SharePointFest team for a job well done. It was a fun conference, as it was last year, and a great excuse for me to spend a few days in advance with my two brothers and their…
There’s an interesting article over on Forbes.com today from Joe McKendrick called From Annoyance to Harmonizer: Cloud Computing’s Maturity Curve. Those who know me would probably say that I’m no shrinking violet in my commenting on articles on the Web, but I read a lot of articles that don’t provoke me to comment. This one…
Hiding a Document library from user in the browser is straightforward using SharePoint Designer (SPD) and there is a single setting to accomplish it. First, open the site with SPD. Once the site is open, you will see the list of objects contained within the site down the left side of the screen. By default,…
Heather Waterman (@hwaterman) and I turn to each other fairly regularly when either of us is stuck on something that we know the other will understand better. It’s the tremendous value of the SharePoint community along with the crazy tools like Skype that we have these days. (When I started coding, it was hard enough…
I’ve created more customized Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) than I could possibly count, but I still learn new stuff all the time. Tonight I was trying to get a DVWP to switch into DataSourceMode=”CrossList” and I accidentally noticed a nice little trick. If you right-click on the DVWP and select Properties, a Tag Properties…
I’ve just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project, version 0.0.9. In this release, I added one new template called FixAmpersands. FixAmpersands is useful when you want to “join’ two lists in an AggregateDataSource in a Data View Web Part (DVWP) and the column you are uisng as the key may contain ampersands….
For a long time, I’ve been reluctant to try to add caching to SPServices. The main reason is that I couldn’t think of a reliable way to do it that wasn’t going to cause potential issues and it also had to be backward compatible. Well, I think I’ve cracked that nut. In the current alpha…
The other day I did a post in which I was grousing about what a pain it is to move individual lists from a 2007 environment to a 2010 environment. Even worse, I wanted to move the lists from a hosted WSS 3.0 environment at FPWeb to Office365. Because of this, there was no access…