Last week I had the privilege to hear the well-known author Dan Brown speak at a dinner for my alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy. You undoubtedly have heard about a little book he wrote called The Da Vinci Code. Not only is Dan a talented author, but he’s also a deep thinker on topics of…
In recent discussions with SharePoint luminaries like Christophe Humbert (@Path2SharePoint) and others, it’s seemed like doing a survey about SPServices would be useful for everyone. I’m building it in Survey Monkey, and I wanted to ask you, the entire world, for suggestions about questions. I want the survey to be useful for everyone who uses…
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…
No matter how many times I add jQuery to a page in SharePoint, this is absolutely *always* the first thing that I do: If that alert in line 7 which is wrapped in a $(document).ready fires, then my script references are good. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve talked people through that simple…