Moving documents around in the “modern” Document Libraries in SharePoint Online (Office 365) has certainly gotten easier. Instead of opening libraries in File Explorer, downloading the files, and then uploading them into the new location, we have nice options like Move to, Copy To, and Rename right in the toolbar. That’s a big upside. Sadly,…
I love SharePoint. I really do. I especially love writing client side code to build awesome applications for my clients. Today’s annoyance, though, comes while I am in the process of rewriting an application I built on SharePoint 2007, porting it to SharePoint Online in Office 365. This ought to feel like a huge leap…
Part of a good user experience with software is feeling that it is our own. When it comes to SharePoint, which for many people is their Intranet or at least an important work environment, we almost always do some level of branding. It’s hard to keep up with how we are supposed to brand our…
Call it the waffle or the App Launcher or whatever you want (internally it has the CSS class ms-Icon–waffle2, so I think Randy Drisgill [@drisgill] is right, as usual), but if you use Office 365 or the soon to be available SharePoint 2016, you probably click on it dozens of times a day. Recent changes to…
Yesterday I helped my pal Marcel Meth (@marcelmeth) with a pretty simple little task, but everything’s simple if you know how to do it! We needed to add simple accordion-like expand/collapse functionality to the Quick Launch on the pages in a Site Collection. Because there were going to be a lot of links in the…
Introduction Sometimes people ask me why I’m still bothering with the crufty old SOAP Web Services in SPServices. After all, there are REST and CSOM to play with and Microsoft has decided to deprecate the SOAP Web Services. Well in some cases, the Shiny New Toys don’t let you get the job done. In cases…
Introduction Ever on the hunt for good SPServices Stories, I spotted this cool one a few weeks back when Patrick Penn (@nfpenn) posted a screenshot of something he had done on Twitter. I encouraged him to do a post about it and this is the result: Folders in SharePoint are as necessary as evil. Make…
Dave Coleman (@davecoleman146davecoleman146) and I had a grand time – Dave and I always seem to have a grand time – with the webinar we did yesterday. It was part of the MetaVis SharePoint MVP Webinars Series and I presented Creating a Great User Experience in SharePoint. It was somewhat a reprise of my SPTechCon…
Well, I’m back in the snowy Northeast after a great four days at SPTechCon San Francisco 2013. As always, the BZ Media folks put on a great show. SPTechCon is consistently well-run and packed with excellent content, vendors, and attendees. I wanted to post links to the slide decks from my three sessions. They are available…
This is a really simple little thing. I end up writing little functions like this all the time, and never think much about them. But they are darn useful. This little function will hide a list column’s row in the form. You might want to do this on a NewForm but not the EditForm, for…