I got an email through my blog the other day which asked an interesting question. My reply bounced back, so I figured I’d post it here as well as in the SPServices Discussions (where a question like this belongs, anyway). Hi Marc, first of all thank you for your contributions to the sharepoint community. [You’re…
I recently did a survey asking the SPServices user community questions about how they used the library, how long they’ve used it, why, for what types of solutions, etc. I read through all of the responses, learned a few things, and promptly forgot to publish the results. There is some interesting information in the responses…
As a follow up to my prior post Adding jQuery to a SharePoint Page: Step One, Always, here’s another step one, always, for when you are using jQuery+SPServices. Even if you have referenced the jQuery library correctly, you still may not be referencing SPServices correctly. To make sure that SPServices is referenced correctly, add this…
The SPServices discussions are a fount of interesting information. I find myself answering all sorts of questions which, while connected to SPServices, are often just as much about how SharePoint works in general. I had two questions recently about how to update Lookup columns with UpdateListItems, and I thought they would be of general interest….
I know that I’m going to look for this tip again, so this post is as much as a “note to self” as anything else, though I expect that others will use it, too. One of the streams I watch with HootSuite is a plain old search for “SPServices”. It’s useful for me to see…
If you’ve stuck your head out from under your rock at all recently, you’ve heard about Office365. There was a huge hullabaloo in NYC and elsewhere yesterday to accompany the “big announcement” (which most of us have been hearing about for probably six months now) as Microsoft launched Office365 globally . It may not surprise…
The other day, I was helping Jim (jtandrew on Codeplex) with an issue he was having with SPServices. It took a little back and forth before we realized that he was using an old version of SPServices with a newer version of jQuery. One of the problems with naming your files something consistent like jquery.SPServices.min.js…
I had a question in the SPServices Discussions the other day about what to pass to the GetUserProfileByIndex operation in order to retrieve the User Profile information for a user. Well, it seemed simple enough after looking at the MSDN SDK for GetUserProfileByIndex; you’d simply pass in the index. But what *is* the index? Is…
OK Go released a new album yesterday (180/360, and it’s great – go buy it!) so I figured I’d better release a new version of SPServices. Those guys shouldn’t have anything on me. My release isn’t live, but it’ll do new cool stuff in your live SharePoint pages. But enough tomfoolery. Yesterday (June 21), I…
I thoroughly enjoyed speaking at SharePoint Saturday Tampa yesterday. Michael Hinckley and his team (Is there a team, really, or is it all Michael??? I know his daughter was there helping at the Speaker Dinner.) did another crackerjack job with the event. It was great to see old friends like Michael Oryszak (@next_connect), Michael Greene…