I want to thank the fine folks at SusQTech (@SusQTech) – Steve Witt (@SPLumberjack) and Julia Oates (@juliaoates), in particular – for asking me to present in their “30 on Thursday” webinar series today. We had a great turn out and it’s a given that I love to talk about SharePoint and jQuery together. It’s like…
In my previous post entitled Referencing jQuery, jQueryUI, and SPServices from CDNs, I provided the references to quickly add jQuery, jQueryUI, and SPServices from the CDNs I typically use. However, I made a bit of a faux pas in what I provided. It’s better to omit the protocol in the references. Browsers will simply use…
I’m still doing lots of work with SharePoint 2007, even while many of my compatriots have moved on almost exclusively to 2013 work. The new shiny stuff is fun and all, but just because it’s new doesn’t mean that all the good work is there. Both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 are still providing valuable collaborative…
I have always wondered what would happen if I created a custom theme for jQueryUI using the excellent ThemeRoller tool and then wanted to upgrade my version of jQueryUI. It always seemed like the odds were that the existing CSS and accompanying image files wouldn’t change too much (I’ve found that there’s far less disruption…
OK, I admit it. Now that SPServices is available on a CDN, I’m coming around to thinking that CDNs might be a good idea in some cases. I had been balking at using them primarily from a control standpoint, and I’m still concerned with that aspect. When you host the script and CSS files you…
Sometimes I work on something and blindly stumble into a neat trick. The other day I was trying to figure out how to reliably add a tabbed view to a SharePoint Web Part Page. I was working in SharePoint Designer, so I had total freedom to try whatever I wanted. The idea was to show…
We can do all sorts of fun stuff that makes the user experience (UX) in SharePoint far better than it is out of the box. One of those things is to use jQueryUI widgets like an accordion to put a large amount of content on the page, but broken into categorized, consumable chunks. Most people…
Carlos Nunes-Ueno posted some XSL you can use in a DVWP to the SPXSLT Codeplex Project a while back which allows you to easily utilize the jQueryUI accordion and tabs functions. I asked him if he’d mind if I did a blog post on it, and he agreed. (If you happen to read the thread,…
This was a fun one to build. A client wanted to be able to see all of the related tasks for a workflow without having to do the two or more clicks it can take to get there using a standard SharePoint list view. By layering jQuery, SPServices, and jQueryUI, we were able to display the information in a…
Every once in a while, someone comes back to the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) site and shares something they have been doing with the library. I read through one today that was impressive, so I thought I’d post it here so more people can read it and see what neato stuff is…