I could probably write an entire book on the strange things that SharePoint Designer does, but I don’t have time for that. Instead, it’s yet another blog post. Today I was adding some Data View Web Parts (DWVPs) to a page, and I took the shortcut of copying and pasting the code of one to…
I’ve had a wonderful time over the last four days as an attendee and speaker at two great SharePoint events. The first one was SharePoint Saturday Boston, right in my own backyard at Microsoft’s offices in Waltham, MA. Helping Pradeepa Siva, Talbott Crowell (@talbott), and Geoff Varosky (@gvaro) with the organizing a bit certainly gave…
Let’s take as a sort of given that the majority of people who use SharePoint, at least for Intranets, are using Internet Explorer. I know that’s a big assumption, and in most organizations it’s not fully true. Many people choose to go rogue from the standards and use other browsers, most front end developers refuse…
[notice]2012-09-07 – Note that I’ve added a more robust version of this function into SPServices v0.7.2, which at this writing is in beta but will be released soon. See the docs for SPFindPeoplePicker.[/notice] I was working with several People Pickers in a form for a client project last week where I needed to set or…
OK, I admit it. Now that SPServices is available on a CDN, I’m coming around to thinking that CDNs might be a good idea in some cases. I had been balking at using them primarily from a control standpoint, and I’m still concerned with that aspect. When you host the script and CSS files you…