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SPServices Stories #5 – Gritter and Sharepoint: Integrate Nifty Notifications...
This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction This SPServices Story comes to use from Rick El-Darwish (@RtfulDodg3r) in Geneva, Switzerland. For those of you who aren’t...
View ArticleSPServices Stories #6 – Custom Quizzing System
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Many times, SPServices Stories play out on the field of the Codeplex Discussions. As someone posts questions about how to build...
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SPServices Stories #7 – Example Uses of SPServices, JavaScript and SharePoint
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction I’ve been aware that John Liu (@johnnliu) is a fan of SPServices for some time now. He occasionally tweets about things he’s up...
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SPServices Stories #8 – CEWP, Nintex, jQuery, SPServices and the Client API
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction I’ve been keeping a list of older posts about using SPServices that I’ve seen on the InterWebz for that day when I finally got...
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SPServices Stories #9: Developing with Client-side Technologies: jQuery,...
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Here’s another SPServices Stories post that is a bit older and talks about how you can use SPServices with other popular plugins...
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SPServices Futures: Moving to jQuery’s Deferred Objects and More
As I gear up to work on the next release of SPServices, I want to make some pretty fundamental changes/improvements to the internal plumbing. What I’m hoping to do with this post is to gather any ideas...
View ArticleSPServices Stories #10 – jqGrid Implementation Using SPServices in SharePoint
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Today’s SPServices Story comes from Prateek Kulkarni in Bengaluru, India. Prateek posted this originally on the C# Corner site...
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SPServices 2013.01 Is Underway – Learnings Ensue
I’ve started really cranking on the new version of SPServices and I’m having a blast, as usual. I’ve learned a few things already, and I thought I’d capture them in a post. “use strict”; Just gotta do...
View ArticleSPServices 2013.01ALPHA4 Returns a Deferred Object (Promise)
I’ve just posted a new alpha (ALPHA4) for SPServices 2013.01. This alpha implements the return of a deferred object, aka a promise, as well as executing a completefunc (if provided) for backward...
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SPServices Stories #11 – Using SPServices and jQuery to Perform a Redirect...
This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction I ran across this SPServices Story in a post on the blog at CTS. The author of the post, Matt Ingle, is a Senior Consultant at...
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SPServices Stories #12 – SharePoint and jQuery SPServices in Education: A...
This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Ben Tedder (@bentedder) has long been a fan of SPServices and his writing about it is great, to boot. I liked this post back...
View ArticleSPServices and Migration to SharePoint 2013
I get many great questions in the SPServices Discussions (that’s the best place to ask questions about SPServices, IMHO, not the MSDN forums, or StackExchange, or on the Documentation pages on the...
View ArticleUsing _spPageContextInfo to Determine the Current SharePoint Context in Script
Sahil Malik had an extremely useful little post about a month back that I emailed to myself and then promptly forgot. Today, Mikael Svenson pointed back to Sahil’s in a post of his own that is also...
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Using Git with SPServices on Codeplex
This git thing gets a lot of press these days and I figure it’s time to learn it. I selected git as the code repo on the SPServices Codeplex site quite a while ago but never used it. Now I’m trying to...
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SPServices Stories #13: Durandal SP3: Developing SharePoint SPAs Made Easy
This entry is part 13 of 13 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Rainer Wittman (@RainerAtSpirit) and I have been emailing back and forth for a few weeks now. He’s been trying out the new alpha...
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Comparing SPServices 2013.01 Calls with Async vs. Promises Methods
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...
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jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) 2013.01 Released
Tonight I’ve released SPServices 2013.012. If you are using an earlier version of SPServices, I strongly suggest that you upgrade to this version, as you will see some performance improvements and...
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SPServices Stories #14: Create a Slide Show in SharePoint 2010 using an...
This entry is part 14 of 17 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction It’s been a while since I’ve posted a new SPServices Story. This one was sitting in my draft bucket for way too long, so a big...
View ArticleSPServices Stories #15: Custom Client-side Calendar Query for Office 365...
This entry is part 15 of 17 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction My friend and fellow MVP Becky Bertram (@beckybertram) recently acquiesced to my suggestion to try using SPServices to solve a...
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SPServices Stories #16: Beginning SharePoint Development with KoSp – Knockout...
Introduction There were a few tweets from Ashok Raja today that caught my eye. There was a problem connecting to Twitter. There was a problem connecting to Twitter. Ashok has released a new Codeplex...
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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...
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Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServices – Part 1 –...
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServicesSingle-page applications (SPAs) are nothing new on the Web. However, like Responsive Web Design...
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SPServices Stories #17: Multiple Form Fields Autocomplete for SharePoint...
This entry is part 16 of 17 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Anyone who follows this series knows that I’m always on the lookout for interesting and useful implementations of SPServices. A...
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SPServices Stories #18 – Retrieve Managed Metadata Using JavaScript and...
This entry is part 17 of 17 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Stefan Bauer Stefan Bauer (@StfBauer) and I have known each other for a while now. We share a passion for developing solutions...
View ArticleSingle-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServices – Part 2 –...
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServicesAs I mentioned in the first part of the series, we have several workhorse operations at our...
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SPServices Passes 100,000 Total Downloads
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...
View ArticleSingle-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServices – Part 3 –...
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServicesIn building a Single Page Application (SPA), we’ll usually want to keep the data we’re displaying...
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From SharePoint Magazine: Variations in Multiselect Controls in Different...
This post originally appeared in SharePoint Magazine on December 23, 2010. Consistency in one’s development practices is a critical part of generating reliable, maintainable code. Most large software...
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jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) 2013.02 Released
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...
View ArticleSingle-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServices – Part 4 –...
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServicesAs I mentioned in the last part of the series, when we build a Single Page Application (SPA), we’ll...
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jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) 2013.02 Re-Released
Back on December 28, 2013, I released SPServices 2013.02, just squeaking in under the wire to be able to name it thusly. Soon after the release, Paul Tavares (@paul_tavares) and I noticed a few...
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Office 365 Update Changes ‘Display Name’ on Required Fields
Observant SPServices user GregRT noticed something on Office365 today that I figured couldn’t be true. He posted the following in the discussions on the SPServices Codeplex site: FYI – I had left my...
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SPServices Stories #19 – Folders in SharePoint are as necessary as evil. Make...
This entry is part 18 of 19 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Ever on the hunt for good SPServices Stories, I spotted this cool one a few weeks back when Patrick Penn (@nfpenn) posted a...
View ArticleFinding a Task’s Status Using GetListItems and SPServices in SharePoint 2013
I get interesting questions all this time. This one came from a client who was trying to use GetListItems with SPServices in SharePoint . Hey Marc, I’m trying to do a GetListItems operation on tasks...
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SPServices Stories #20 – Modify User Profile Properties on SharePoint Online...
This entry is part 19 of 19 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Sometimes people ask me why I’m still bothering with the crufty old SOAP Web Services in SPServices. After all, there are REST...
View ArticleRegex Selector for jQuery by James Padolsey FTW
In researching how to fix the issue with Office 365 Update Changes ‘Display Name’ on Required Fields in SPServices, I came across some true awesomeness from James Padolsky (@Padolsey). jQuery is...
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jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) 2014.01 Released
Hot on the heels of the short-lived SPServices 2013.02 and it’s younger, wiser sibling 2013.02a, comes SPServices 2014.01. I wanted to do a new release with some cool new functionality, but Microsoft...
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Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 016 – Interview with Marc Anderson on Recent...
Microsoft Cloud Show A few weeks back, I sat down (virtually, of course) with Andrew Connell (@AndrewConnell) and Chris Johnson (@LoungeFlyZ) to record an episode of the Microsoft Cloud Show. Andrew...
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SPServices Stories #21 – Redirect If User Clicked a Button Previously
This entry is part 20 of 20 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Ingeborg Hawighorst (@IngeborgNZ) is a long-time SPServices user who has come up with any number of intriguing uses for the...
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SPServices: What About Deprecation of the SOAP Web Services?
SPServices user JSdream asked a question in the SPServices Discussions on Codeplex the other day that’s worthy of a more prominent response. Should we, who use SPServices, be concerned at all with...
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Uploading Attachments to SharePoint Lists Using SPServices
For years people have been asking me how they could upload files using SPServices. I’ve dodged the questions every time because I simply didn’t know how. On a current client project, I’m building a...
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jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) 2014.02 Released
Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, I’m releasing SPServices 2014.02. This is the second release in 2014 (which you should be able to glean from the release name). If you’re using an...
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Synchronous XMLHttpRequest Warning with SPServices and Recent Browsers
Image source If you’re working in the latest versions of Chrome (~40+) – and maybe Firefox – and you use SPServices, you may start to see an warning: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is...
View ArticleIs Client Side Scripting a Good Way to Access SharePoint Data?
People reach out to me all the time to ask my advice on how to accomplish certain things with SharePoint. Sometimes I can help, and sometimes their questions are way beyond me. One of the benefits of...
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SPServices Stories #1 – How to Start a Workflow on Multiple Items in a List
This entry is part 1 of 21 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Given the fact that so many people are using SPServices these days, I wanted to start posting some of the great things that...
View ArticleSPServices Stories #3 – AddWebPart Method of the WebPartPages Web Service
This entry is part 3 of 21 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction Eric Alexander (@ejaya2) should be no stranger to those of you who have visited NothingButSharePoint‘s Stump the Panel forums. If...
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SPServices Compatibility Issues with the Minified Version of jQuery 1.9.0
Codeplex users tedka and danstaley have reported issues using SPServices with jQuery 1.9.0. You can read their issues here and here, respectively. I’ve done some quick testing, and the problem seems to...
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SPServices Stories #2 – Charting List Data with HighCharts
This entry is part 2 of 21 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction This submission comes to us from an anonymous reader, who can’t publish the details under his (or her) name due to...
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SPServices Compatibility Issues with jQuery 1.9.1
Ouch. Last week, several alert SPServices users reported issues with jQuery 1.9.0. (See: SPServices Compatibility Issues with the Minified Version of jQuery 1.9.0) It turned out that the minified...
View ArticleSPServices Stories #4 – Using SPServices to Process Files from a...
This entry is part 4 of 21 in the series SPServices StoriesIntroduction SPServices Stories #4 comes to us from Michael Broschat. Michael claims he’s just a “regular old contractor, nothing special”. He...
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