Today is “SPServices and anonymous mode” day around these parts, it seems. I figure I’ll keep the posts coming on these topics today because for some reason I’ve gotten a string of questions about it. Here’s another question, edited a little bit to work here on the blog: We have built a web part that…
I got a question about the SPServices function SPRedirectWithID via email yesterday, and it seemed like it would be good to answer it in a blog post. The idea behind SPRedirectWithID is to allow you to redirect the user to some other page from a NewForm, with the new item’s ID on the Query String….
Thanks to everyone who attended my session at SharePoint Saturday EMEA yesterday. If you’re interested in looking under the covers of the demo that I did on Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier, there is a Site Template (MiddleTier.WSP) available on my Sympraxis Consulting demo site in the upper right which you can download and instantiate…
On a recent client project, I was able to take advantage of Jaap Vossers‘ excellent InstantListFilter project on Codeplex. It’s just the sort of thing that you need to improve the user experience with SharePoint, and you can do it with minimal work because Jaap’s done all of the heavy lifting for you. It’s a…
I’ve probably blogged about this at one point or another somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it. A frequent requirement I get from clients is to add a set of FAQs to a SharePoint site. I always just "borrow" an Announcements list for this. Here’s a look at what columns you might use for…
When Randy Drisgill (@drisgill) offered me a free copy of the new book entitled Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design he wrote with John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, and Larry Riemann, I knew I’d like it. (There’s the disclaimer: I got a free book out of this.) I know Randy and…
I’ll be doing a session at Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA on January 22nd, 2011 entitled Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier. (I know I’m going to get some guff about continuing to use the ‘Middle Tier’ moniker; I’m OK with that.) While most of the market focus in SharePoint development lies with .NET skills and…
Tonight, my wife, 6-year-old son, and I went to see Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion here in Boston. If you’ve never seen a Cirque du Soleil show, they are truly remarkable. Even though they have probably over-commercialized themselves (hey, who’s to begrudge success?) each show I’ve seen, and it’s been 3 or 4 I think, gives the…
Greetings from snowy New England. I’m readying SPServices v0.6.0 for release, and I need some folks who are willing to do some testing on real world usage. As I’ve mentioned in other places, one of my goals for this release is to pass most JSLint tests. The reason for this is to ensure that my…
Well, what a year 2010 was, and what a year 2011 looks to be. I abhor all of this end of the year / start of the year reminiscing and promising, but here I go anyway: I thought I’d do it, too. [I started this over the holidays and then got sick and it languished…