eshupps 10:01am, Dec 29 from TweetDeck “Sigh – Nobody listens. #jquery isn’t small or efficient. It’s still thousands of lines of javascript behind the scenes people!” Actually, Eric, because I’m listening, I feel another need to respond! In my previous response (Putting the Brakes on SharePoint with jQuery – Or Not) to the views on…
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…
I released v0.4.7 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today. This release primarily contains enhancements to existing functions, but also a new set of operations for the Meetings Web Service. The big headlines are: Support for multi-select parent columns in $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns “Secondary” relationshipList support in $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns A new completefunc option for most of the functions (where…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In my last article, I showed how I used my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services to improve data quality by enhancing an out of the box form using the SPRequireUnique, SPDisplayRelatedInfo, and PreSaveAction functions. In this installment, I’ll show you how I created…
I’ve been banging away on new features and functionality for the next version of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, so my blogging has fallen by the wayside a bit. v0.4.7 is shaping up nicely, in large part because the stuff that I’ve been adding has been driven to a large degree by the community of…
Cross posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 So I’ve been going on about how wonderful this jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services stuff is, but you may have wondered if I ever actually use the library in real world situations. You bet I do, and it lets me build some…