This is just a quick post I’d like to use to gather your thoughts on where SPServices should go from here. At The Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, going on right now, many people I’m talking to are asking me about my plans. I’ve been mulling it over for a few months now, and…
Well, Keenan Newton did a post on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog entitle Changes to the Design View in SharePoint Designer 2013 yesterday that makes it official: the Design View in SharePoint Designer 2013 is not just missing, it’s not coming back. I’m reproducing Keenan’s post below, but you should also read it in situ, as the…
Today I’m releasing SPServices v0.7.2. If you are using an earlier version of SPServices, I suggest that you upgrade to this version, as you will most likely see some performance improvements, especially if you use multiple value-added functions on the same forms pages. Thanks to everyone who downloaded the beta over the last month or…
I’ve written previously about SharePoint Designer 2013′s Missing Design View here on my blog as well as on the Microsoft forums and elsewhere.. My goal in writing about this and making a lot of noise about it is not to simply complain. (We have way more complaining about everything out here on the InterWebz than we…
Recently, I got this question in the SPServices Discussions: I’m new to SPServices, and I was wondering if it is possible to define some kind of out-of-the-box error handling procedure, like this: The only thing I am aware of is that you can do something like this: However, this solution will also execute the success-branch when…
Hello, all! I was away on a fantastic trip to Western Canada.I posted BETA1 before I left and there have already been over 500 downloads. I’m back and ready to push out the v0.7.2 release of SPServices as soon as I work through the feedback I received while I was gone. I haven’t seen any significant…
It’s been a bit too long since I’ve released a new version of SPServices. It was mid-February when I released v0.7.1, and I’ve been adding new functionality and squashing bugs since then. At this point, I believe that I have a pretty stable beta ready. If you have the time and the inclination, I’d truly…
Today, July 6 at about 4pm EDT, SPServices v0.7.1 received its 10,000th download Because I’m amused by this sort of thing, I was watching on my iPhone from my friend’s beach house. The animated GIF below shows it as I saw it happen. Notice that Toby Mai (@GrumpyTech) tweeted me right after he did the…
For a long time, I’ve been reluctant to try to add caching to SPServices. The main reason is that I couldn’t think of a reliable way to do it that wasn’t going to cause potential issues and it also had to be backward compatible. Well, I think I’ve cracked that nut. In the current alpha…
There have been many milestones in the SPServices saga, but this one sort of caught my eye and since I got a screen grab, I figured I’d do a quick post.. Even with over 48,000 total downloads of all of the versions I’ve released, this version seems to have really taken off, hitting 6,000 downloads…