In a previous post, TiVo Desktop 2.7 with Windows 7, I thought I’d hit on a fix for getting the TiVo Desktop software running right with Windows 7. Alas, my joy was premature. I kept getting errors both in trying to transfer shows from my TiVo to my PC as well as when I tried…
Eric Shupps posted what some folks have considered a provocative article yesterday to his blog entitled Putting the Brakes on SharePoint with JQuery. First of all, I’m not going to trash Eric here or say that he is misguided or any of the other Internet flame-a-thon techniques. Eric knows what he is talking about; I…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… SPSetMultiSelectSizes is a function in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services that lets you set the sizes of multi-select picker boxes based on the values they contain. This may sound trivial, but because of the way SharePoint constructs the pickers as compound controls, it’s less straightforward than you might think. Background…
Over the weekend, I received a free copy of the book SharePoint Designer Tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites by Mike Poole. They have asked me to review it here on my blog, and I never turn down a free book. Is that enough for the FTC? Check out the article FTC: Bloggers who shill must…
As I was working through the potential solution to the poser I posted yesterday (Setting Multi-Select Picker Widths in a SharePoint Form Reliably) last night, my addled brain wasn’t coming up with a good list of fonts to test my algorithm. I turned to the interWebs and found a slick site which has a great…
In an old post, I sketched out how you could set go about Setting Multi-Select Widths in a SharePoint EditForm.aspx Using JavaScript. The code I posted there worked just fine, but took some manual tweaking every time you wanted to use it. The basic idea is this: When SharePoint renders the multi-select control, the <div>s…
Jeremy Thake and I had a nice chat yesterday. Morning my time, evening his; we could hardly be further apart, him in Perth, Australia and me here in Boston, MA, USA. Despite the time difference, I fully enjoyed the conversation. I know that Jeremy knows his stuff, having followed his work through Twitter (@jthake) and…
I decided it was high time to take a look at how my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services might hold up in SharePoint 2010. After all, it’s a whole new product, everything’s new and improved, etc. Except it turns out that many things are exactly the same. This is actually not bad news. For…
I released v0.4.7 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today. This release primarily contains enhancements to existing functions, but also a new set of operations for the Meetings Web Service. The big headlines are: Support for multi-select parent columns in $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns “Secondary” relationshipList support in $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns A new completefunc option for most of the functions (where…
Good old George2 asked a question over at SharePointOverflow.com about SharePoint list and column names today. If you don’t know it, SharePointOverflow.com is an excellent site to get high-end SharePoint assistance! I liked my response, so here it is as a blog post. When you create a column on a list, both its DisplayName and StaticName are…