Last night (March 12), I released SPServices v0.6.0. As I’ve been discussing in previous posts (here, here, and here), this release is a significant refactoring so that it passes the majority of the coding standards tests at JSLint.com. Of course, there are some other great things included in this release as well, and I’ll outline them…
Thanks to everyone who attended my Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery session at SharePoint Conference .ORG in Baltimore on Monday this week. I thoroughly enjoyed the conference, and loved all of the interest and questions in my session. The folks at SusQTech put on a wonderful show! Here are links to the things which…
I just went through all of the “value-added” functions in SPServices and updated their certifications for SharePoint 2010. They were really behind the times and many were incorrect. Almost everything works great in SharePoint 2010, though there are a few functions that have some caveats. I wanted to make these updates as part of getting ready for…
Last week I did a post about when you might decide to use Active Directory groups versus SharePoint groups. It was less about managing the security, and more about understanding the membership of the groups. I got a *lot* of comments, emails, tweets, grumbles, and groans about the post. This seems to be a really common…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-22″> If you find this topic interesting, you might also like to read my follow up post Active Directory Groups vs. SharePoint Groups for User Management: The Denouement </UPDATE> I’m working with a small municipality and, like I always do, I recommended that they manage user groups in Active Directory as much as possible. Then they…
I was trying to use a Content Query Web Part in SharePoint 2010 today and display the URL column from a Links list. Oddly, there’s no out of the box style for this. A little Binging, an #SPHelp tweet, and I came to the conclusion that I needed to add a new style to ItemStyles.xsl…
I’ve had two questions this week about how to find the contents of a Rich Text column reliably with jQuery. Rich Text columns are rendered in a more complex way than just a nice textarea. Like some of the other column types they are a sort of hybrid, with some HTML elements and some script to…
Today is “SPServices and anonymous mode” day around these parts, it seems. I figure I’ll keep the posts coming on these topics today because for some reason I’ve gotten a string of questions about it. Here’s another question, edited a little bit to work here on the blog: We have built a web part that…
I’ve probably blogged about this at one point or another somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it. A frequent requirement I get from clients is to add a set of FAQs to a SharePoint site. I always just "borrow" an Announcements list for this. Here’s a look at what columns you might use for…
When Randy Drisgill (@drisgill) offered me a free copy of the new book entitled Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design he wrote with John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Paul Stubbs, and Larry Riemann, I knew I’d like it. (There’s the disclaimer: I got a free book out of this.) I know Randy and…