Today I was working on some script for the home page of a SharePoint 2013 site which added the jQueryUI accordion behaviour to all of the Web Parts within a Web Part Zone. When I went into edit mode, it was pretty frustrating to have the accorsdions kick in, so I looked around for a way…
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…
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,…
Sahil Malik had an extremely useful little post about a month back that I emailed to myself and then promptly forgot. Today, Mikael Svenson pointed back to Sahil’s in a post of his own that is also very useful. I’m going to steal a little from both posts for this one. I hope Sahil and Mikael don’t…
I get many great questions in the SPServices Discussions (that’s the best place to ask questions about SPServices, IMHO, not the MSDN forums, or StackExchange, or on the Documentation pages on the SPServices site, where I rarely see them). Some of them deserve to get wider exposure by becoming a blog post, and here is one of…
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…
I don’t have much to say about this new tool from Lightning Tools yet, but it sure does looks promising. Lighting Tools makes good stuff in general, so I’m sure it’s going to work well. If I can get my hands on a beta copy and can kick the tires some, I’ll let you know…
[important]If you’re interested in this topic, also see my follow up post.[/important] Yesterday I posted in Microsoft’s SharePoint 2013 Preview for IT Professionals forum about my concern that that the Design View (and by extension, the Split View in case you were wondering) is no longer available in SharePoint Designer 2013. There are a lot…