The other day, a client asked me a pretty classic set of questions about customizing SharePoint Online list forms. As with some other arenas of endeavor in Office 365, there is more than one way of doing things and it can be confusing. I am looking at options to customize List forms on sites in…
This will be a quick post. Recently, when I wanted to make a REST call to retrieve all of the high priority tasks from a set of task lists, I figured it would be no big deal. I’d just add something into the querytext and be done with it. Unfortunately, syntax is always a cruel…
It’s been a busy few weeks in my life. First I was in London at the SharePoint Evolution Conference, then home for a week, then off to Microsoft Ignite in Chicago, then back home, and boom! I was heading out the back to put some burgers on the grill, I missed the second to the last…
Yesterday I created a new GitHub repo for KnockoutJS binding handlers for use with SharePoint. I’ve been using KnockoutJS for over a year now, and love working with it to build Single Page Application (SPAs) and other interactive functionality inside SharePoint. I thought starting a repo that could store bindingHandlers for KnockoutJS that are generally…
I’ve been building a lot of great stuff with KnockoutJS lately. It seems that it can enable many – if not all – of the development requirements I have these days, whether I’m building a single-page application (SPA) or just adding a snippet of content to an existing page. I can even build KnockoutJS-enabled “Web…
I’ve been using KnockoutJS to build functionality into SharePoint pages for a while now. (In case you’ve ever wondered, yes, it’s the same thing people mean when they simply say “Knockout” or “KO”.) Setting everything up with KnockoutJS can take a bit longer than hard-wiring things with jQuery – depending on what you are trying…
Here’s a question from gdavis321 from the good old SPServices discussions. In most cases, I just answer the questions in situ, but occasionally – as you frequent readers know – I realize what I’m writing feels more like a blog post, so I move it over here. It seems that Spservices (thank you for this…