One of the comments I sometimes get when I talk about the beauty of Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) in SharePoint is “You know, XSL is a declarative language, not a procedural one.” I gave a talk last night at the Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) called Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier and it…
Earlier this year, SharePoint Magazine became a part of the USPJ Academy family. Yesterday, we relaunched a revamped SharePoint Magazine on a more robust platform (it’s still WordPress at its core) along with some fresh content. We’re looking for some authors to join us. If you’ve ever considered joining the SharePoint writing community, this might…
I got a question today via email that I though would be good to address in a post. The person who sent it didn’t want to publicly ask the questions so that s/he wouldn’t be “sowing any seeds of doubt for using” SPServices. Now that 2010 is here with its WCF services and Client Model,…
In SharePoint 2010, you’ll sometimes see that the Quick Launch has a draggable right border so that you can resize it, *if* you have the Tree View enabled. That seems sort of useful, eh? But why the heck is it there some of the time and not other times? We wondered just that and decided…
Yesterday I posted Are Ampersands Stored Differently in SharePoint 2010 Than SharePoint 2007? This one has really gotten me interested. I decided to try calling the Lists Web Service with SPServices to see if there’s a difference in what is returned for the exact same items in SharePoint 2007 versus SharePoint 2010 (post upgrade). Here’s what I…
In my conversations with IT departments about how SharePoint is used in their organizations, the topic of old and/or dormant sites almost always comes up. The IT way to think about this is to immediately bring up ideas like “archive” or “delete”. We can get that disk space back! Our job will get easier! I…
I’ve always prided myself in building Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) that are bulletproof, meaning they will run and render no matter what. However, I ran into something today which gives me pause. The setup on this is a little complicated, so bear with me. In SharePoint 2007, if you have a Lookup column which is based…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-14″>: As of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector. This was actually “required” in previous versions of jQuery, but not enforced. </UPDATE> Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… A little while ago, I noticed that a fellow named Rob Doyle was asking some interesting questions about working with workflows…
Bjorn’s rules aside ;-) , here’s an oddity that I wanted to post to see if anyone else has run across it or has any ideas. In SharePoint 2010 the Tags and Notes dialog, which is available at the upper right of most pages by default, is supposed to show *everyone*’s tags and notes on…
I released SPServices v0.5.8 on 14 November, 2010, but I’m already hard at work on v0.6.0. A major goal for this release is to refactor the code, looking to reduce the size of codebase and improve efficiency, yet maintain readability. This should be a significantly improved release internally, and will require more extensive testing than…