As I mentioned in the last part of the series, when we build a Single Page Application (SPA), we’ll usually want to keep the data we’re displaying up to date. GetListItems and GetListItemChanges are two of the operations that can help with this, but the more robust option is GetListItemChangesSinceToken (MSDN documentation). In fact, it’s…
Yesterday I released SPServices 2013.02. Here are the release headlines: Improved compatibility with SharePoint 2013, whether on premises or on Office365, especially in the value-added functions (SPCascadeDropdowns, SPDisplayRelatedInfo, etc.) Better API stability, including fixes for GetListItemChanges, GetListItemChangeSinceToken, and others Bug fixes and performance improvements While this is primarily a maintenance release, if you are using…
[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…
Here’s a question from gdavis321 from the good old SPServices discussions. In most cases, I just answer the questions in situ, but occasionally – as you frequent readers know – I realize what I’m writing feels more like a blog post, so I move it over here. It seems that Spservices (thank you for this…
In building a Single Page Application (SPA), we’ll usually want to keep the data we’re displaying up to date. You can probably think of many examples where you see this on the Web, but newsfeeds are a prime example. While we’re sitting on the page, we see newly posted content pop up, usually on the…
Here are some numbers for the meaningless-but-fun-statistics bin. Codeplex collects a bunch of numbers for me, so I can preserve them here. Yesterday, Sunday, October 27th, 2013, SPServices crossed the 100,000 total downloads threshold. I posted the first version of SPServices (SPServices 0.2.3) on Codeplex on Aug 19th, 2009 as an alpha. That means it’s…
The other day I tweeted that I May succumb to this this syntax: var $this = $(this);* Because I use Hootsuite and it’s a simple button push, I also posted it to Facebook. George Winters saw it there and wondered what I meant. I was referring to a common jQuery coding practice. In the past,…
As I mentioned in the first part of the series, we have several workhorse operations at our disposal in the SOAP Web Services with which we can build our Single-page Applications (SPAs). (Of course, which API you use is somewhat unimportant. All of the techniques here should work using REST or CSOM, too. I’m just…
Introduction Stefan Bauer (@StfBauer) and I have known each other for a while now. We share a passion for developing solutions in SharePoint that both function well and look good. User Experience Matters. The other day I was working on a project where I wanted to access some managed metadata (MM) values in SharePoint 2010…
Introduction Anyone who follows this series knows that I’m always on the lookout for interesting and useful implementations of SPServices. A few weeks ago, a tweet in my feeds caught my eye: Just posted multiple fields autocomplete jQuery plugin using @sympmarc's SPServices http://t.co/Z8WJSDVakQ — Plumsail (@plumsail_sp) August 21, 2013 Anton Khritonenkov, who is a Technical…