SPServices 2013.01 is almost ready for release and I’m hoping that when you see the coolness here that you’ll want to get your hands on the beta to do a little testing with it. I’ve put together a pretty simple demo page to show how great it can be to use jQuery .Deferred objects (aka…
The other day I did a post in which I was grousing about what a pain it is to move individual lists from a 2007 environment to a 2010 environment. Even worse, I wanted to move the lists from a hosted WSS 3.0 environment at FPWeb to Office365. Because of this, there was no access…
Several people have asked me what I showed Dan Antion last week which caused him to say “Marc began by showing us one of the most impressive web pages I have ever seen in SharePoint.” I’m not sure that it was actually all *that* impressive (I have better!) but it does do some pretty cool…
I’ve had two questions this week about how to find the contents of a Rich Text column reliably with jQuery. Rich Text columns are rendered in a more complex way than just a nice textarea. Like some of the other column types they are a sort of hybrid, with some HTML elements and some script to…
Whoa, I’m really falling down on my blogging lately. It’s not that I don’t have as much to say, it’s that Twitter and other things end up taking more of my time these days. ("Microblogging" is the word we use to make tweets legitimate.) So here’s something. I think I may have outlined this a…
I’m unlikely to unearth better details on this than good ‘ole SharePoint Joel. Check out Joel’s post for all the dirt. If, though, you’re like me and you just say “Gimme the downloads!” here are the key bits: 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x86) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x64)…
Here is a great post from Spencer Harbar entitled SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes. In it, Spencer has gone to the immense effort of logging exactly what all of the post-SP1 hotfixes are and what version numbers they represent. If you need to figure out where your SharePoint farm stands in the update timeline, this…
We’re using our hosted WSS site for our Internet site, our Intranet, and our Client Extranet. This is a very cool use of WSS, IMHO. Not only do we have all of the great content management capabilities for our external site, but we have the team-based capabilities which we can use to interact with our…
OK, so you know how I’m going to come down on this, but I got your attention, right? In fact, at almost every large client I work with, the latter seems to be the opinion. The rules are usually: No SharePoint Designer use in staging and production. Period. This stems from a fundamental lack of…
I’ve had several clients ask about this, and my answer to date has been “It’s a known ‘feature’ or bug.” I just ran across this Microsoft KB article that shows you how to fix this issue by loading the 953749 hotfix: SYMPTOMS You use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to add a Custom List Form…