Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServices – Part 1 – Introduction

Single-page applications (SPAs) are nothing new on the Web. However, like Responsive Web Design (RWD), SPAs are gaining favor as a way to enable real work with an improved user experience (UX). From the Wikipedia definition of SPA: A single-page application (SPA), also known as single-page interface (SPI), is a web application or web site…

Item ‘Modified By’ Value Doesn’t Change: Fixing a Damaged Column Schema

I ran into an odd situation the other day at one of my clients. When people edited existing list or library items in *some* lists (we couldn’t discern a pattern) the Modified By (Editor) column value did not change. The date/time stamp (Modified) was updated, but not the person who made the modification. We found…

Setting a Rich Text Column in a SharePoint Form with jQuery – SharePoint 2010

I have gotten several questions on an older post of mine titled Setting a Rich Text Column in a SharePoint Form with jQuery from a guy named Travis. He’s been struggling to try to use the script in the post to get at the text in a Rich Text Editor (RTE) in SharePoint 2007. I just…

SPServices Stories #16: Beginning SharePoint Development with KoSp – Knockout for SharePoint, REST API and SPServices

Introduction There were a few tweets from Ashok Raja today that caught my eye. Blogged: Introducing #KoSp – #Knockout binding handlers for #SharePoint 2013 and 2010 #RestAPI and #SPServices http://t.co/WC0TsfTqjf — Ashok Raja (@Ashok_Raja) September 10, 2013 Blogged: Beginning #SharePoint development with #KoSp – #Knockout for SharePoint , #RESTAPI and #SPServices http://t.co/ZQRyjsErKp — Ashok Raja (@Ashok_Raja)…