I was asked via an email from this blog to look at a thread in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum today. Of course, I was curious and headed right over there. Here’s the basic question (there’s lots more detail in the thread): My problem precisely and concisely is that I get tasked (A…
I ran across an interesting little trick in some code I’m working on today. As usual, not my code, someone else’s that I’m trying to decipher and fix. One thing that they are doing is sort of slick. There’s apparently an array created by the datepicker.js JavaScript called g_strDateTimeControlID which is populated with the IDs for all of…
I’ve posted on similar tricks to this in the past, but this little trick is really helpful and worth calling out on its own. Say that you’d like to pass a Source parameter on the query String, as SharePoint often does for you: http://servername/sites/sitename/Lists/MyList/EditForm.aspx?ID=275&Source=http://servername/sites/sitename/default.aspx Simple, and you see it all the time as you navigate…
This release contains two functions I’ve wanted to get into the library for a long time: $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID and $().SPServices.SPRequireUnique. These two functions show how you can solve tricky problems with jQuery and the SharePoint Web Services much better than any of the other approaches available, IMHO. $().SPServices.SPRequireUnique allows you to specify a page to redirect to after…
Here’s an off-topic post for you. I can’t live without my TiVo, but it’s been quite a long while since I’ve used TiVo Desktop to transfer shows to my PC. Somewhere along the way I uninstalled TiVo Desktop, certainly before I upgraded to Windows 7. The new TV season and some of the great shows…
Cross-posted from endusersharepoint.com… Even back in the old days (late 2006) when I first started working with SharePoint 2007, I was surprised how little interactivity there was within pages. Sure the drag and drop way to add Web Parts to pages and move them around had some “wow factor”, but most users wouldn’t even get…
UPDATE 2010-05-27: Back in January, 2010, I added a generalized function called $().SPServices.SPArrangeChoices to accomplish this to my SPServices library. It works basically the same way, but can be easily called with the name of the column for which you’d like to rearrange the radio buttons or checkboxes. It also includes an option to randomize the…
There are times where you want to control how the page flow works during and after the document upload process. The simplest path that this takes is: from a view in the Document Library, clicking on the Upload button which takes you to _layouts/Upload.aspx where you specify the document you want to upload then to…
As is often the case recently, inspiration for this post came from a thread over at the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum. In this particular thread, I suggested using the PreSaveAction (see my post entitled Validation on SharePoint Forms – Part Four for details on how this works) and some script to do…
I’ve been working on trying to improve the performance of some DVWPs I wrote about a year ago as part of an application that I inherrited from others. (Was that tactful enough?) One of the things that I’ve been trying to do is to filter on the LookupId of a Lookup column, but I couldn’t…