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…
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…