I got my fourth little medal in the MSDN Forums yesterday. I spend time over at the SharePoint Products and Technologies Forums > SharePoint – Design and Customization forum trying to help folks out and because I learn a lot from their questions. It’s nice to get the little extra GIF for the effort, too. I…
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…
I got an email through my Contact page overnight that I thought I’d share some bits of as well as some of my response. Please let me introduce myself, I am a SharePoint Designer (note ‘Designer’ not developer :)) and my role is to develop our corporate Intranet using MOSS 2007. It is up and…
First of all, we need a snappier name. Any suggestions? Secondly, it was nice to be alerted by Tom Resing (take his SharePoint 2010 adoption survey if you have a few minutes) yesterday that one of his colleagues had used our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services in a real solution. Check out David McWee‘s…
Page layouts are great functionality that comes along with the Publishing Infrastructure in MOSS. They allow you to enforce a consistent structure and even consistent content in pages which you allow your users to create. However, sometimes (due to the powers that be), you may have access to a site with pages based on page…
I find myself retyping these two of my DVWP best practices over and over again in some form or another in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum, so I thought I’d capture them here for posterity. SharePoint Designer Generates Errors It’s not unusual when you are making quite a few changes to a…
We released our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services to Codeplex today. You can find it at http://spservices.codeplex.com; the current release is 0.2.3. We’ll keep the existing demo page up and running on the Sympraxis Consulting demo site and try to keep it current with each new release. The demo page basically mirrors our test…
I’m not sure that I’m enamored with this as a solution, but I thought that I’d post this function to see what folks think and whether there are any better ideas out there. (I’ve looked, and I certainly can’t find any!) I’m building this function to sit in our SharePoint jQuery library, so I can’t…
Here’s a great little trick from an MSDN Forum thread I was trying to help out in. Thanks to Playerkiller for this one. Suppose you’d like just a single DVWP to display numbers (either currency or regular numbers) in a different locale than the host site. This trick lets you do just that. Prerequisites: Numbers…