A jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (WSS 3.0 and MOSS): Part 1 – Why and Why Now?

Cross-posted from endusersharepoint.com… Even back in the old days (late 2006) when I first started working with SharePoint 2007, I was surprised how little interactivity there was within pages.  Sure the drag and drop way to add Web Parts to pages and move them around had some “wow factor”, but most users wouldn’t even get…

SharePoint Form Radio Buttons: Switch from Vertical to Horizontal with jQuery

UPDATE 2010-05-27: Back in January, 2010, I added a generalized function called $().SPServices.SPArrangeChoices to accomplish this to my SPServices library. It works basically the same way, but can be easily called with the name of the column for which you’d like to rearrange the radio buttons or checkboxes.  It also includes an option to randomize the…

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services v0.3.2 Released

We released v0.3.2 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today.  This release contains a new function which was inspired by a blog post by Waldek Mastykarz.  See the release notes below for details.  Let us know if you see other cool stuff like this that you’d like to use.  There are definitely some…

Redirect to Another Page from NewForm.aspx with the New Item’s ID: Redux

UPDATE 2009-10-19: I solved this for real in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services function called $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID.  Feel free to read this post, but this is the solution you’re looking for. The most visited post on my blog, hands down, is the one on Redirect to Another Page from NewForm.aspx with the New Item’s ID. …

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services v0.3.1 Released

We released v0.3.1 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today on Codeplex.  It’s been a week since the last release, and we’ve had a satisfying 85 downloads of v0.3.0.  Based on the emails I’ve been getting and the mentions I’ve seen on Twitter, this library is helping a lot of folks get real things…