Simple Expand/Collapse for the Quick Launch in SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online

ByMarc D Anderson

Yesterday I helped my pal Marcel Meth (@marcelmeth) with a pretty simple little task, but everything’s simple if you know how to do it! We needed to add simple accordion-like expand/collapse functionality to the Quick Launch on the pages in a Site Collection. Because there were going to be a lot of links in the…

Moving from SPServices to REST, Part 3: JSON vs. XML

ByMarc D Anderson
This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Moving from SPServices to REST

Summary: When you move from SOAP to REST, you’ll want to understand the differences between XML and JSON as well. Modern Web developers are most likely to use JSON, and this is a great time to switch. Most auto mechanics understand that there are several different measurement systems – and therefore toolsets – that they…

Moving from SPServices to REST, Part 2: New Patterns for SPServices Development

ByMarc D Anderson
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Moving from SPServices to REST

Summary: You can improve your SPServices-based code today to prepare for converting to REST calls later. In this article, Marc introduces some new patterns for your JavaScript code to make SOAP calls easier to maintain and easier to move to REST when you decide it’s time. Remember that older car I drive? Well, over the…

Moving from SPServices to REST, Part 1: Introduction

ByMarc D Anderson
This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Moving from SPServices to REST

In this series, you’ll learn how to transition from the SOAP Web Services – which SPServices supports – to REST. If your organization is making a transition to SharePoint 2013 or Office 365 & SharePoint Online (and anything hybrid in between), this series will help you develop new patterns, migrate your codebase, use OData effectively…

Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365 – Part 4 – Search Schema

ByMarc D Anderson
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365

In the prior posts in the series, we’ve seen how to set up a page for our employee directory and then create Display Templates to render the information we want for each person, along with a nice alphabetical filtering capability. Up to this point, things have worked pretty much the same as they would in…

Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365 – Part 3 – Create Display Templates

ByMarc D Anderson
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365

In the prior two parts of the series, I covered the idea of an employee directory (or associate directory, or person directory, or whatever you call the people in your company/organization/commune) and how to create the basic page. Once again, I want to give credit to Ari Bakker’s (@aribakker) post that shows how to set…

Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365 – Part 2 – Set up an Employee Directory Page

ByMarc D Anderson
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365

The first step is, of course, to create a page where the Employee Directory will live. The approach we’re taking here is to use a page in the Search Site Collection in Office365. By default – at least in the tenants I’ve worked with – the Search Site Collection lives at https://[tenant name].sharepoint.com/search. This isn’t…

Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365 – Part 1 – Introduction

ByMarc D Anderson
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Create a Simple SharePoint 2013 Employee Directory on Office365

Employee Directories are a common feature of most Intranets. In fact, I’m working on Employee Directories for two different clients right now. This is such a common need, that it’s firmly embedded in the fantastic work that my friends over at Dynamic Owl have built into their Bonzai Intranet product. We aren’t going to be…