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…
We released v0.3.2 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today. This release contains a new function which was inspired by a blog post by Waldek Mastykarz. See the release notes below for details. Let us know if you see other cool stuff like this that you’d like to use. There are definitely some…
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…