As I mentioned in the first part of the series, we have several workhorse operations at our disposal in the SOAP Web Services with which we can build our Single-page Applications (SPAs). (Of course, which API you use is somewhat unimportant. All of the techniques here should work using REST or CSOM, too. I’m just…
Introduction Stefan Bauer (@StfBauer) and I have known each other for a while now. We share a passion for developing solutions in SharePoint that both function well and look good. User Experience Matters. The other day I was working on a project where I wanted to access some managed metadata (MM) values in SharePoint 2010…
Introduction Anyone who follows this series knows that I’m always on the lookout for interesting and useful implementations of SPServices. A few weeks ago, a tweet in my feeds caught my eye: Just posted multiple fields autocomplete jQuery plugin using @sympmarc's SPServices http://t.co/Z8WJSDVakQ — Plumsail (@plumsail_sp) August 21, 2013 Anton Khritonenkov, who is a Technical…
Single-page applications (SPAs) are nothing new on the Web. However, like Responsive Web Design (RWD), SPAs are gaining favor as a way to enable real work with an improved user experience (UX). From the Wikipedia definition of SPA: A single-page application (SPA), also known as single-page interface (SPI), is a web application or web site…
As I’ve written many times in the past, I get a lot of questions via this blog. I try to answer some of them, but often they simply come in too fast and furious for me to get to them all. Answering the questions gives me some benefits, too, or course. First, I often learn…
I have gotten several questions on an older post of mine titled Setting a Rich Text Column in a SharePoint Form with jQuery from a guy named Travis. He’s been struggling to try to use the script in the post to get at the text in a Rich Text Editor (RTE) in SharePoint 2007. I just…
Introduction There were a few tweets from Ashok Raja today that caught my eye. Blogged: Introducing #KoSp – #Knockout binding handlers for #SharePoint 2013 and 2010 #RestAPI and #SPServices http://t.co/WC0TsfTqjf — Ashok Raja (@Ashok_Raja) September 10, 2013 Blogged: Beginning #SharePoint development with #KoSp – #Knockout for SharePoint , #RESTAPI and #SPServices http://t.co/ZQRyjsErKp — Ashok Raja (@Ashok_Raja)…
Introduction My friend and fellow MVP Becky Bertram (@beckybertram) recently acquiesced to my suggestion to try using SPServices to solve a challenge she had in rolling up calendar items across lists. I know it may often seem that since SPServices is my hammer that I always say to whack the nails with it, but sometimes it’s…
The jQuery and SharePoint book we’ve been working on over the last few months, Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint, is finished and available in the Kindle Store at Amazon. The book features information about how to use jQuery and real solutions that power users or developers can implement without any deployment to SharePoint…
Introduction It’s been a while since I’ve posted a new SPServices Story. This one was sitting in my draft bucket for way too long, so a big sorry goes out to Trace Armstrong (@TraceBArmstrong). Trace wrote this post about using SPServices to drive a slideshow using an announcements list as the source. This is the…