[SharePoint Magazine date=”December 23, 2010″] Consistency in one’s development practices is a critical part of generating reliable, maintainable code. Most large software contains some inconsistencies, but in your development efforts with SharePoint, you should try your best not to introduce any inconsistencies of your own. In this article, I’ll show you the effect of one…
Faster and more furious, that’s what I always aim for. I’ve been working hard on this next release of SPServices. I’ve been lucky to have some down time between projects to do it. Yes, I’m happy to have the gap so that I can do more and do it better; I’ve been able to make…
Yup, the alphas are coming fast and furious these days. I just posted a new alpha of SPServices v0.7.1. The most significant change in this alpha is the ability to have multiple child columns for a parent column in SPCascadeDropdowns. This was something I always intended it to do, but the last time I tried…
I posted a new alpha of SPServices v0.7.1 today. Even though I just released v0.7.0 in early December, I’ve been working steadily to get some great new functionality and performance improvements into v0.7.1 as well as to fix some rather obscure bugs. You can see the details of what is included in this alpha on…
As I’ve written in the past, there are several types of “dropdowns” in SharePoint forms. Briefly, there are: “Simple” dropdowns – These are plain, old HTML selects; the type of dropdown you are most familiar with on the Web. SharePoint renders one of these when there are fewer than 20 options. “Complex” dropdowns – SharePoint…
Last night, I finally got around to writing a function which *many* people have asked me for, and I called it SPComplexToSimpleDropdown. It’s available in SPServices v0.6.2ALPHA1, and I’d appreciate any testing you might be able to do. The function is in an alpha state, which means that while I’ve tested it, I’m not certain…
I’ve received a couple of reports of issues using SPServices with the recently released version of jQuery, which is 1.6. I’ve added a big red note on the home page of the SPServices Codeplex project: IMPORTANT NOTES: I haven’t done any testing whatsoever with jQuery 1.6+, as it was recently released. There has been at…
I think I’ve typed bits and pieces of this post to people a few hundred times. Why I have never thought to make it a post is beyond me! SharePoint renders dropdowns in forms two different ways, depending on how many options there are in the column. If there are fewer than 20 options, then…