In recent discussions with SharePoint luminaries like Christophe Humbert (@Path2SharePoint) and others, it’s seemed like doing a survey about SPServices would be useful for everyone. I’m building it in Survey Monkey, and I wanted to ask you, the entire world, for suggestions about questions. I want the survey to be useful for everyone who uses…
Last night, I finally got around to writing a function which *many* people have asked me for, and I called it SPComplexToSimpleDropdown. It’s available in SPServices v0.6.2ALPHA1, and I’d appreciate any testing you might be able to do. The function is in an alpha state, which means that while I’ve tested it, I’m not certain…
I’ve received a couple of reports of issues using SPServices with the recently released version of jQuery, which is 1.6. I’ve added a big red note on the home page of the SPServices Codeplex project: IMPORTANT NOTES: I haven’t done any testing whatsoever with jQuery 1.6+, as it was recently released. There has been at…
No matter how many times I add jQuery to a page in SharePoint, this is absolutely *always* the first thing that I do: If that alert in line 7 which is wrapped in a $(document).ready fires, then my script references are good. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve talked people through that simple…
Over the last few months, I’ve had a couple of requests for SPServices to emit JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in addition to Extensible Markup Language (XML). This is probably a natural progression, as SharePoint developers are becoming more familiar with the JSON approach, which IMO has been traditionally known far better by Web developers. In my…
<UPDATE dateTime=”2011-04-27 14:36EDT”>Ooops. I misspoke when I said “that SPServices was the number one Codeplex project at the time”. It was the number one *SharePoint* project. Big difference!</UPDATE> While I was away lazing on a beach, Christian Glessner posted an interview-let he did with me in a very noisy place deep in the bowels of…
Today (April 13), I released SPServices v0.6.1. This release doesn’t have a long list of changes from v0.6.0, but there is a new function which many people have asked for plus two other enhancements. For posterity, here are the changes: New Functionality Alpha Issue Tracker Item Function Description ALPHA1-2 5647 $().SPServices.SPFilterDropdown New Function Idea: Filter…
I wanted to do a quick post about SPServices v0.6.1ALPHA1. The one change in this ALPHA is to add a new function called SPFilterDropdown. I’ve had a lot of requests for this functionality lately, though it has come up on and off in the past as well. Note that this is an ALPHA release, and…
I got a question in the SPServices Discussions the other day (it’s currently at the bottom of the thread) about listing folders in a SharePoint Document Library with SPServices. Little examples like this can be useful learning tools, even if they aren’t exactly what you are trying to do. <UPDATE>Based on the first two comments…
Thomas Zepeda-McMillan was kind enough to get in touch back in early February and give me the code he had built to wrap the TaxonomyClientService Web Service for SharePoint 2010. This made a nice additional piece of functionality to add to v0.6.0. The TaxonomyClientService allows you to interact with the Managed Metadata term store. I…