Kicking Off A Sharepoint Workflow from a Button, and [Much] More!

<UPDATE date=”2011-02-14″>: As of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector. This was actually “required” in previous versions of jQuery, but not enforced. </UPDATE> Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… A little while ago, I noticed that a fellow named Rob Doyle was asking some interesting questions about working with workflows…

Using SPServices & jQuery to Clone a Parent Item and All Its Children: Comments on Mark Rackley’s Post

Mark Rackley (@mrackley) is definitely earning the salary I’m paying him as the Marketing Manager for SPServices.  (Yes, that salary is zero.) He posted another great article about Using SPServices & jQuery to Clone a Parent Item and All its Children today, and I wanted to point out a few things about it. I’m not…

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) v0.5.8 Released

Earlier today I released SPServices v0.5.8. The headlines for this release are: more operations, including the first SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) only operation, and a new function, SPUpdateMultipleListItems. SocialDataService The Social Data Service Web Service is the first SP2010-only Web Service I’ve added to SPServices. This Web Service allows you to interact with the new social…

Capturing the Current User’s Manager in MOSS Using SPServices and GetUserProfileByName

I had a question today about how to get the current user’s manager and put the value into a Person or Group column in a list. This one only works in MOSS or SharePoint Server 2010 (not WSS 3.0 or SharePoint Foundation) because the UserProfileService Web Service is only available there. The code is relatively…

A jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (WSS 3.0 and MOSS): Real World Example – Part 4

Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Way, way back in January, I wrote Part 3 of this series and said:  “In my next article, I’ll show what the multiple document metadata entry page (EditFormBulk.aspx) looks like and how it works. Teaser: Yes, it uses jQuery and my jQuery Library for SharePoint…