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…

Setting a Rich Text Column in a SharePoint Form with jQuery – SharePoint 2010

I have gotten several questions on an older post of mine titled Setting a Rich Text Column in a SharePoint Form with jQuery from a guy named Travis. He’s been struggling to try to use the script in the post to get at the text in a Rich Text Editor (RTE) in SharePoint 2007. I just…

Comparing SPServices 2013.01 Calls with Async vs. Promises Methods

SPServices 2013.01 is almost ready for release and I’m hoping that when you see the coolness here that you’ll want to get your hands on the beta to do a little testing with it. I’ve put together a pretty simple demo page to show how great it can be to use jQuery .Deferred objects (aka…

SPServices Stories #13: Durandal SP3: Developing SharePoint SPAs Made Easy

This entry is part 13 of 21 in the series SPServices Stories

Introduction Rainer Wittman (@RainerAtSpirit) and I have been emailing back and forth for a few weeks now. He’s been trying out the new alpha of SPServices 2013.01 which includes jQuery promises aka Deferred objects capabilities (soon to be a real release, I promise!) with the Durandal JavaScript framework. Durandal is a framework for building SPAs,…

SPServices Futures: Moving to jQuery’s Deferred Objects and More

As I gear up to work on the next release of SPServices, I want to make some pretty fundamental changes/improvements to the internal plumbing. What I’m hoping to do with this post is to gather any ideas and feedback that the user community has about the implementation before I go too far with things. Deferred…

Refreshing a Page Section with a User-selected Interval Set with jQueryUI’s Slider

I’m still doing lots of work with SharePoint 2007, even while many of my compatriots have moved on almost exclusively to 2013 work. The new shiny stuff is fun and all, but just because it’s new doesn’t mean that all the good work is there. Both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 are still providing valuable collaborative…

Refreshing a Web Part Without a Postback Using jQuery’s AJAX Function

I’ve been working on several projects with good old SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). jQuery and jQueryUI sure can spice it up nicely. Recently, I decided I wanted to refresh the contents of a Data View Web Part (DVWP) based on a user selection – a simple click on one of a big set of links –…

Moving Lists from Hosted WSS 3.0 to Office365 – The Manual Way

It’s a long holiday weekend here in the U.S., I’ve been sick with some sort of flu for all of it, and it’s really nice and sunny outside. So what am I doing? Trying to migrate my Sympraxis Consulting demo site from my FPWeb-hosted WSS 3.0 site (yeah, I’m a little behind) to my Office365…