Adding Conditional Formatting for a List Form Header with JSON

The recently added capability to perform simple layout changes on a SharePoint list form using JSON is the bee’s knees. As is the case with many insect joints, the examples out there mostly are the same and the documentation isn’t full featured enough for most people’s taste. Sue Hanley (@SusanHanley) and I were working on…

When Using Angular, Be Sure to Convert to JSON Using `angular.toJson`

This is a quick one, but if it has the potential to bite you, you’ll thank me for it later. I use AngularJS generally these days when I want to write solutions in SharePoint, whether on premises or in SharePoint Online. Yes, that’s the older version of Angular, meaning versions in the 1.x range. When…

Getting Around SharePoint’s Threshold Limits for Large Reference Lists

In SharePoint 2007, we could build lists that contained as many items as we wanted and access them in any way we wanted. We may have done stupid things that were bad for server performance, but if we knew what we were doing there were few limits. We had the mythical “2000 item” rule of…

Adding JSON Capability to SPServices

For quite a while, I’ve gotten requests to offer some sort of JSON conversion capability in SPServices. The requests have often been fairly non-specific, meaning that they haven’t mentioned a particular Web Service operation, like GetListItems or GetWeb. However, I think that most people want to be able to get convert the XML they get…