There are times where you want to control how the page flow works during and after the document upload process. The simplest path that this takes is: from a view in the Document Library, clicking on the Upload button which takes you to _layouts/Upload.aspx where you specify the document you want to upload then to…
As is often the case recently, inspiration for this post came from a thread over at the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum. In this particular thread, I suggested using the PreSaveAction (see my post entitled Validation on SharePoint Forms – Part Four for details on how this works) and some script to do…
I’ve been working on trying to improve the performance of some DVWPs I wrote about a year ago as part of an application that I inherrited from others. (Was that tactful enough?) One of the things that I’ve been trying to do is to filter on the LookupId of a Lookup column, but I couldn’t…
We released v0.3.2 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today. This release contains a new function which was inspired by a blog post by Waldek Mastykarz. See the release notes below for details. Let us know if you see other cool stuff like this that you’d like to use. There are definitely some…
UPDATE 2009-10-19: I solved this for real in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services function called $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID. Feel free to read this post, but this is the solution you’re looking for. The most visited post on my blog, hands down, is the one on Redirect to Another Page from NewForm.aspx with the New Item’s ID. …
@workerthread tweeted this today: Really interested to hear if you can reproduce weird #SharePoint Designer custom form behaviour detailed here http://bit.ly/60Tko I ran through the steps Derek outlines, and I do indeed see the odd behavior that he reports. I’ve never seen this before because this isn’t the usual sequence I go through to create…
Another question from my contact form: Hi Marc. My problem in short is to get a filters to work on columns that holds values from linked tables. For instance I have a column with xsl:value-of select="../../../Products/Rows/Row[@Title=current()/@ProductID]/@ProductGroup" Am at a loss for a way to do it at this point. A hint would be greatly appreciated….
I got a quick question today from a client asking how to roll up blog posts. He wanted to display the latest blog posts from all of the blogs which executives have in the Site Collection, which is used as the organization’s Intranet. He had the idea right, using a Data View Web Part (DVWP)…
Another question came to me in email today that I thought was worth sharing, along with my answer. The email referred to my post about Alpha Selection of List Items in a Data View Web Part (DVWP), but it’s relevant to many Middle Tier development tasks. I hope this email comes to you in good…
UPDATE: 2009-08-28: This library doesn’t sit still for long. We’ve released version 0.2.7 to fix a small issue and are already working on version 0.2.8. I just posted a new alpha version of our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services. In it, we’ve added 5 new operations, and a new function: SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns. Web Service Operation Options…