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Obscure (And Not So Obscure) Bugs with Complex Dropdowns in SharePoint Forms
As I’ve written in the past, there are several types of “dropdowns” in SharePoint forms. Briefly, there are: “Simple” dropdowns – These are plain, old HTML selects; the type of dropdown you are most...
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SPServices Survey Now Available
As I mentioned in a prior post, I’ve put together a survey to find out how people are using SPServices, what they like, dislike, wish for, etc. If you’ve ever used SPServices, or even if you are...
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Setting a Rich Text Column in a SharePoint Form with jQuery
Over in the SPServices Discussions, @PirateEric was having a problem setting the value of a Rich Text column (RTE) in a SharePoint form. He was referring to my blog post Finding the Contents of a...
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Elevating Permissions with SharePoint’s Web Services
English: A Master Lock brand padlock. Français : Cadenas de la marque Master Lock. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I get frequent questions about how to elevate permissions when working with the SharePoint...
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Display All Related Tasks for a SharePoint Workflow Using jQuery, SPServices,...
This was a fun one to build. A client wanted to be able to see all of the related tasks for a workflow without having to do the two or more clicks it can take to get there using a standard SharePoint...
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SharePoint Saturday Tampa Wrap-Up
I thoroughly enjoyed speaking at SharePoint Saturday Tampa yesterday. Michael Hinckley and his team (Is there a team, really, or is it all Michael??? I know his daughter was there helping at the...
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jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) v0.6.2 Released
OK Go released a new album yesterday (180/360, and it’s great – go buy it!) so I figured I’d better release a new version of SPServices. Those guys shouldn’t have anything on me. My release isn’t live,...
View ArticleConfusion About the UserProfile Web Service’s GetUserProfileByIndex Operation
I had a question in the SPServices Discussions the other day about what to pass to the GetUserProfileByIndex operation in order to retrieve the User Profile information for a user. Well, it seemed...
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jQuery and Backward Compatibility
Image via Wikipedia The other day, I was helping Jim (jtandrew on Codeplex) with an issue he was having with SPServices. It took a little back and forth before we realized that he was using an old...
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Getting “ows_MetaInfo” Nicely with SPServices
I know that I’m going to look for this tip again, so this post is as much as a “note to self” as anything else, though I expect that others will use it, too. One of the streams I watch with HootSuite...
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Updating a Lookup Column Using SharePoint’s Lists Web Service
The SPServices discussions are a fount of interesting information. I find myself answering all sorts of questions which, while connected to SPServices, are often just as much about how SharePoint works...
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Adding jQuery+SPServices to a SharePoint Page: Step One, Always
As a follow up to my prior post Adding jQuery to a SharePoint Page: Step One, Always, here’s another step one, always, for when you are using jQuery+SPServices. Even if you have referenced the jQuery...
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SPServices Spring 2011 Survey Results – Part 1: Demographics
I recently did a survey asking the SPServices user community questions about how they used the library, how long they’ve used it, why, for what types of solutions, etc. I read through all of the...
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Connecting to SharePoint’s Web Services from iOS
I got an email through my blog the other day which asked an interesting question. My reply bounced back, so I figured I’d post it here as well as in the SPServices Discussions (where a question like...
View ArticleTip for Using SPServices with GetListItems
As is often the case, one of the threads on the SPServices Discussions seemed worth bringing over as a blog post. Here’s the initial question, with the script cleaned up a little for clarity: Any help...
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Showing a Spinning Icon When Using SPServices
Here’s another quick question that ought to be useful to many people as they develop solutions with SPServices. Here’s the original question: Is there a way to add and animate...
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Taming Long SharePoint List Forms Using jQuery to Break Them into Sections
Do you have any lists in SharePoint where the forms seem to go on and on, marching down the page, seemingly ad infinitum? I’ve seen lists which have over a hundred, even over 300 columns. This is a...
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Using SPServices with jQueryUI’s Autocomplete Function on InfoPath Forms in...
Yes, that title says using jQueryUI on InfoPath forms in SharePoint. InfoPath forms are fantastic, except when they just aren’t quite able to do what you want. While InfoPath can help you take your...
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Displaying Multi-Select Column Values in CrossList DVWPs
This is one of those things that I’m amazed I haven’t run into before. Perhaps I did in the past and wrote it off to my own lack of understanding. It turns out that this is a known, if rarely...
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Managing SharePoint Site User Memberships in Multiple Groups Using SPServices
I got an email yesterday from Geoff Oliver. He said he had done something pretty useful with SPServices and wondered if I would be interested in seeing it. I manage about 115 groups in a single site...
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