UPDATE 2009-10-19: I solved this for real in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services function called $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID. Feel free to read this post, but this is the solution you’re looking for. The most visited post on my blog, hands down, is the one on Redirect to Another Page from NewForm.aspx with the New Item’s ID. …
We released v0.3.1 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today on Codeplex. It’s been a week since the last release, and we’ve had a satisfying 85 downloads of v0.3.0. Based on the emails I’ve been getting and the mentions I’ve seen on Twitter, this library is helping a lot of folks get real things…
Over in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization Forum, I was answering some questions about how to best provide filtering capabilities on a List View Web Part. McGeeky wanted to put filtering dropdowns at the top of the page to "improve the user experience". My stock answer to this is to user Data View…
@workerthread tweeted this today: Really interested to hear if you can reproduce weird #SharePoint Designer custom form behaviour detailed here http://bit.ly/60Tko I ran through the steps Derek outlines, and I do indeed see the odd behavior that he reports. I’ve never seen this before because this isn’t the usual sequence I go through to create…
With a software platform as ubiquitous and powerful as SharePoint, there are bound to be some "urban myths" that build up around it. Here are two of my biggies. What SharePoint myths do you have in the back of your mind? Let me know about them and I’ll write about them in future posts. There…
Another question from my contact form: Hi Marc. My problem in short is to get a filters to work on columns that holds values from linked tables. For instance I have a column with xsl:value-of select="../../../Products/Rows/Row[@Title=current()/@ProductID]/@ProductGroup" Am at a loss for a way to do it at this point. A hint would be greatly appreciated….
An interesting email came over the transom today with some questions about "connected" list filters: Hi Marc, I often visit your blog for any doubts in dataview. I read your post on cascading dropdowns that was really helpful and presented in nice way. Recently i had to use a filter toolbar for a dataview,i had…
In testing the MOSS Workflow Web Service operations I’m adding to our jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, I was getting an error sometimes when I called the StartWorkflow operation: Exception from HRESULT: 0x8102009B Turns out this occurs if there is a prior instance of the same workflow which has terminated in an error, showing…
Unfortunately quickly followed by 0.2.10a to fix a quick bug. But at least it was a quick fix, and driven by someone called mwhite01 trying to actually use SPDisplayRelatedInfo to solve a business requirement. In this release, the main new things are a new function called $().SPServices.SPDebugXMLHttpResult and a slew of new Web Service operations. …
Today we released v0.2.9 of our jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. This release includes a new function suggested by pagalvin in this Discussion thread. It’s somewhat limited in what it can do at the moment, but we wanted to get some feedback before adding more options to it. The screenshot below shows how it…