Preserving the Existing Query String When Building a Link in a DVWP

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…

jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services v0.2.6 Alpha

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…

Real World Use of Our jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services

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…

Editing Pages Based on Page Layouts When You Don’t Have Access to the Page Layouts Themselves

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…