The other day I was creating a custom UI for a SharePoint 2013 Discussion list. To me, the out-of-the-box UI in SharePoint 2013 is definitely a step forward from previous versions. It’s still pretty rudimentary, though, and my client wanted something “more like other forums”. SharePoint’s Discussion lists are sort of like Document Sets, in…
Recently, I was building a directory tree view of a Document Library for a client. Yes, you can say this shouldn’t be necessary. We can just tag the documents with metadata and we won’t need folders at all. Unfortunately, that’s not always the way people want to work. To build this, I started by calling…
In a previous post, I walked through Uploading Attachments to SharePoint Lists Using SPServices. Well, in the “modern” world, I want to use REST whenever I can, especially with SharePoint Online. I ran into a challenge figuring out how to make an attachment upload work in an AngularJS project. There are dozens of blog posts and…
While the majority of calls using SOAP with SPServices use GetListItems to get items from lists, changing data with UpdateListItems is probably a close second. In this case, we’re altering data based on some user action. In a way, it’s like repainting your car (which I’ve never done). The shape and structure of the car…
Wouldn’t it be great if we could drive flying cars like the DeLorean in Back to the Future? Unfortunately, even though October 21, 2015 has passed us by, that’s not a reality yet. The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Sometimes JavaScript promises can feel…