Oddly, I’ve had some people asking me where I’ll be speaking in the coming weeks and months, so I figured I’d do a post with the details. First up is SharePoint conference .ORG coming up March 7-9 in Baltimore, MD. I’ll be doing a session entitled Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery. While the title…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-22″> If you find this topic interesting, you might also like to read my follow up post Active Directory Groups vs. SharePoint Groups for User Management: The Denouement </UPDATE> I’m working with a small municipality and, like I always do, I recommended that they manage user groups in Active Directory as much as possible. Then they…
I was trying to use a Content Query Web Part in SharePoint 2010 today and display the URL column from a Links list. Oddly, there’s no out of the box style for this. A little Binging, an #SPHelp tweet, and I came to the conclusion that I needed to add a new style to ItemStyles.xsl…
In a post on February 3 entitled Issues with SPServices and jQuery 1.5, I mentioned that there were some problems with SPServices and jQuery 1.5. Since then I’ve done pretty extensive testing, and I’m convinced that the only problem is that, as of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector….
After my post the other day about Finding the Contents of a SharePoint Rich Text Column with jQuery, I saw a tweet from my friend in Sweden, Christian Ståhl. http://twitter.com/#!/CStahl/status/35998002397192192 The Rich Text column contents are just HTML, so there’s really no limit to what you might do to manipulate it yourself with script. Let’s look…
Those of you who attended my Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery session at SPTechCon SFO 2011 know that there were no slides, just demos. I wanted to give links to those demos in case you’d like to look at any of them to pick them apart or take them as starting points for functionality…
My pal Tasha Scott (@TashasEv) tweeted a question today about how to get at the display name for a Content Type on a NewForm: Hello Gentlemen, As requested, I am posting my query from Twitter in regards to trying to pass the Content Type of an item into the PlaceHolderPageTitleinTitleArea, um, area of a New…
I’ve had two questions this week about how to find the contents of a Rich Text column reliably with jQuery. Rich Text columns are rendered in a more complex way than just a nice textarea. Like some of the other column types they are a sort of hybrid, with some HTML elements and some script to…
Scott Jamison (@sjam) mentioned the Microsoft Training Catalog in his session at SPTechCon this afternoon called Build It and They Will Come: SharePoint 2010 User Adoption. There’s some great SharePoint educational material available on the site, which I wasn’t aware of before. (Why? I don’t know.) Apparently, you may have access to some materials for…
Matt Bramer (@IOnline247) asked me a good question today in the USPJ Academy forums which I needed to think about and do a little searching to answer. That usually makes for a good blog post. I’ve tried to follow your aggregate data source steps in 2010 and I can’t seem to view a data source…