Summary: When you move from SOAP to REST, you’ll want to understand the differences between XML and JSON as well. Modern Web developers are most likely to use JSON, and this is a great time to switch. Most auto mechanics understand that there are several different measurement systems – and therefore toolsets – that they…
Summary: You can improve your SPServices-based code today to prepare for converting to REST calls later. In this article, Marc introduces some new patterns for your JavaScript code to make SOAP calls easier to maintain and easier to move to REST when you decide it’s time. Remember that older car I drive? Well, over the…
This is another post in the vein of “it happened to me and it took me a long time to figure it out, so why should you go through the same pain”? I’ve got an application running at a client that sits on top of SharePoint 2007. It uses KnockoutJS and lots of other modern…
In this series, you’ll learn how to transition from the SOAP Web Services – which SPServices supports – to REST. If your organization is making a transition to SharePoint 2013 or Office 365 & SharePoint Online (and anything hybrid in between), this series will help you develop new patterns, migrate your codebase, use OData effectively…
This week I was working on moving a design into SharePoint 2010. The design was made up of the standard sorts of things: HTML mockups with graphics, CSS, etc. The mockups are using Twitter Bootstrap as the styling framework. I’ve done this sort of branding implementation many times, and it’s always interesting because what I…
If you’re working in the latest versions of Chrome (~40+) – and maybe Firefox – and you use SPServices, you may start to see an warning: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user’s experience. For more help, check http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/. Vigilant SPServices user frankhale reported this…
It’s that time of year when people tend to look back at the prior year or look forward to the new one. In my case, I’m generally choosing to look forward. 2014 was a swell year on most counts, but I’m really looking forward to 2015. I’m excited about a number of things coming up…
The other day I got a question from my pal D’arce Hess (@DarceHess): I am using jsLink on a couple lists and I have an interesting circumstance I’m running into. Scenario: I have a list of Work Centers and each work center has associated machines that are in another list. I’m having an interesting situation…
Introduction This is another story I ran across on Twitter and wanted to add to the SPServices Stories series. I wrote about my own experience getting attachment uploading to work in my post Uploading Attachments to SharePoint Lists Using SPServices. My cheat in that case was to change the DOCTYPE to HTML5 in a SharePoint…
I get questions all the time about how to set up permissions in SharePoint. Permissions are hard. It’s not just you. And if you don’t do them right, they turn into a tangled ball of string in a drawer that no one can ever get untangled. Here are some of my rules of thumb. They…