jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services v0.3.2 Released

We released v0.3.2 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today.  This release contains a new function which was inspired by a blog post by Waldek Mastykarz.  See the release notes below for details.  Let us know if you see other cool stuff like this that you’d like to use.  There are definitely some…

Redirect to Another Page from NewForm.aspx with the New Item’s ID: Redux

UPDATE 2009-10-19: I solved this for real in the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services function called $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID.  Feel free to read this post, but this is the solution you’re looking for. The most visited post on my blog, hands down, is the one on Redirect to Another Page from NewForm.aspx with the New Item’s ID. …

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services v0.3.1 Released

We released v0.3.1 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services today on Codeplex.  It’s been a week since the last release, and we’ve had a satisfying 85 downloads of v0.3.0.  Based on the emails I’ve been getting and the mentions I’ve seen on Twitter, this library is helping a lot of folks get real things…

List Filtering: Coding vs. Native Functionality Considerations

Over in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization Forum, I was answering some questions about how to best provide filtering capabilities on a List View Web Part.   McGeeky wanted to put filtering dropdowns at the top of the page to "improve the user experience". My stock answer to this is to user Data View…

Odd SharePoint Designer Custom Form Behavior

@workerthread tweeted this today: Really interested to hear if you can reproduce weird #SharePoint Designer custom form behaviour detailed here http://bit.ly/60Tko I ran through the steps Derek outlines, and I do indeed see the odd behavior that he reports.  I’ve never seen this before because this isn’t the usual sequence I go through to create…