In recent discussions with SharePoint luminaries like Christophe Humbert (@Path2SharePoint) and others, it’s seemed like doing a survey about SPServices would be useful for everyone. I’m building it in Survey Monkey, and I wanted to ask you, the entire world, for suggestions about questions. I want the survey to be useful for everyone who uses…
I just released a new version of the SPXSLT Codeplex Project with a few minor changes. I’ve added a new template called GetUserNames. It’s very similar to GetUserIDs, except that it parses out the user names (rather than IDs) from a Person or Group column value. It requires the GetUserName template to function. Both GetUserNames…
I’ve never really seen any use for OneNote. I know lots of people who absolutely love it, and I’ve tried to “get” it, but I just don’t. That’s one of the things that makes life interesting: something which is indispensible for one person just isn’t for another. Today I may have found something which will…
Last Thursday was indeed a very good day. I got to do [at least] four great things: I wrapped up some cool jQuery/SPServices/jQueryUI-based functionality to enhance a site which uses workflows extensively. The functionality allows us to add dialog popups which display all the underlying tasks for a running workflow. No postbacks! More on this…
Last night, I finally got around to writing a function which *many* people have asked me for, and I called it SPComplexToSimpleDropdown. It’s available in SPServices v0.6.2ALPHA1, and I’d appreciate any testing you might be able to do. The function is in an alpha state, which means that while I’ve tested it, I’m not certain…
I’ve received a couple of reports of issues using SPServices with the recently released version of jQuery, which is 1.6. I’ve added a big red note on the home page of the SPServices Codeplex project: IMPORTANT NOTES: I haven’t done any testing whatsoever with jQuery 1.6+, as it was recently released. There has been at…
No matter how many times I add jQuery to a page in SharePoint, this is absolutely *always* the first thing that I do: If that alert in line 7 which is wrapped in a $(document).ready fires, then my script references are good. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve talked people through that simple…
The actual title of this book is the somewhat long "Beginning SharePoint 2010 Administration: Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010". Christian and I have chatted back and forth many times on Twitter and via our blogs, etc., and he offered me a free copy (Yes, Mr. FTC Man, a free copy.) back…
This post was cross-posted on NothingButSharePoint.com on 4 May, 2011. When someone new contacts me through my blog with a question about SharePoint, I’m usually game to help. (Though saying *please* is always a really nice thing. “You have to tell me…” or “give me the answer now…” isn’t so great.) If you contact me…
Sometimes in a SharePoint form, you might want to include a link which takes the user off to do something else. Maybe it’s to look at another list or some other page; it doesn’t really matter. If you’ve got a nice, fancy customized form using a DVWP, you can make that link a little smarter…