Observant SPServices user GregRT noticed something on Office365 today that I figured couldn’t be true. He posted the following in the discussions on the SPServices Codeplex site: FYI – I had left my debug on. Users were getting errors on there forms that a field could not be found by SPServices. MSFT has changed the…
Say what you will about InfoPath. It’s a dead technology, it’s not getting any Microsoft love, it’s only for the wealthy (Forms Services is only available only in Enterprise -level CALs of SharePoint), it has no future. I’ve heard all of these and more. That said, it’s a pretty solid technology and works. We can…
As I mentioned in the last part of the series, when we build a Single Page Application (SPA), we’ll usually want to keep the data we’re displaying up to date. GetListItems and GetListItemChanges are two of the operations that can help with this, but the more robust option is GetListItemChangesSinceToken (MSDN documentation). In fact, it’s…
I’m building a reasonably complex form with InfoPath 2013 in which I need to look up data for some dropdowns from several external REST Web Services. The REST services are available publicly and anonymously, so authentication isn’t any issue. For example, say I have a field on the form which displays values for Category in a dropdown….
Ira Fuchs has been at it again, working to make SharePoint more interesting and accessible to Real SharePoint People. What I like about Ira’s books is that they are written for people who want to get something done from start to finish. In each book, Ira takes us through how he’s built real applications. Ira’s…
Here’s a question from gdavis321 from the good old SPServices discussions. In most cases, I just answer the questions in situ, but occasionally – as you frequent readers know – I realize what I’m writing feels more like a blog post, so I move it over here. It seems that Spservices (thank you for this…
In building a Single Page Application (SPA), we’ll usually want to keep the data we’re displaying up to date. You can probably think of many examples where you see this on the Web, but newsfeeds are a prime example. While we’re sitting on the page, we see newly posted content pop up, usually on the…
Here are some numbers for the meaningless-but-fun-statistics bin. Codeplex collects a bunch of numbers for me, so I can preserve them here. Yesterday, Sunday, October 27th, 2013, SPServices crossed the 100,000 total downloads threshold. I posted the first version of SPServices (SPServices 0.2.3) on Codeplex on Aug 19th, 2009 as an alpha. That means it’s…
As I mentioned in the first part of the series, we have several workhorse operations at our disposal in the SOAP Web Services with which we can build our Single-page Applications (SPAs). (Of course, which API you use is somewhat unimportant. All of the techniques here should work using REST or CSOM, too. I’m just…
I wanted to add some custom refiners to each of the custom search result pages I’ve been working on in a project. The steps to do this aren’t complex, but since I needed to read a bunch of posts out there to get it just right, I figured I’d write it up. Create Custom Managed…