In an old post, I sketched out how you could set go about Setting Multi-Select Widths in a SharePoint EditForm.aspx Using JavaScript. The code I posted there worked just fine, but took some manual tweaking every time you wanted to use it. The basic idea is this: When SharePoint renders the multi-select control, the <div>s…
Jeremy Thake and I had a nice chat yesterday. Morning my time, evening his; we could hardly be further apart, him in Perth, Australia and me here in Boston, MA, USA. Despite the time difference, I fully enjoyed the conversation. I know that Jeremy knows his stuff, having followed his work through Twitter (@jthake) and…
I released v0.4.7 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today. This release primarily contains enhancements to existing functions, but also a new set of operations for the Meetings Web Service. The big headlines are: Support for multi-select parent columns in $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns “Secondary” relationshipList support in $().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns A new completefunc option for most of the functions (where…
Good old George2 asked a question over at SharePointOverflow.com about SharePoint list and column names today. If you don’t know it, SharePointOverflow.com is an excellent site to get high-end SharePoint assistance! I liked my response, so here it is as a blog post. When you create a column on a list, both its DisplayName and StaticName are…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In my last article, I showed how I used my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services to improve data quality by enhancing an out of the box form using the SPRequireUnique, SPDisplayRelatedInfo, and PreSaveAction functions. In this installment, I’ll show you how I created…
I’ve been banging away on new features and functionality for the next version of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, so my blogging has fallen by the wayside a bit. v0.4.7 is shaping up nicely, in large part because the stuff that I’ve been adding has been driven to a large degree by the community of…
Cross posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 So I’ve been going on about how wonderful this jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services stuff is, but you may have wondered if I ever actually use the library in real world situations. You bet I do, and it lets me build some…
Ever helpful @MSwannMSFT – Matt Swann at Microsoft (why aren’t there more like him?) – spotted a Twitter discussion between @jvossers, @willhlaw, and me (@sympmarc) yesterday, and in his usual tenacious style, promised an answer. This guy doesn’t just guess, he goes and tracks down the line of code or the actual developer and finds…
Following up on my post Interesting New Uses for SPDisplayRelatedInfo, I’ve just added two new options to the SPDisplayRelatedInfo function in the first alpha for v0.4.7 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. The function is getting a little overloaded with options, but these two seemed pretty valuable yet not worth breaking things out into…
I ran across a great JQuery and SharePoint 2007 blog post yesterday, and I wanted to capture the URL here for later reference. Vedant Kulshreshtha has done a great job gathering up links to explain what jQuery is all about, why it is a good thing, what people think about it, how you might use…