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The Middle Tier Manifesto – In Spanish!
I was looking through the incoming links here on my blog tonight, and I noticed this one: Middle Tier (un método alternativo para desarrollar en SharePoint). Well, that was interesting enough to click...
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A Codeplex-like Site for "End User SharePoint"-like Solutions?
Yesterday, I saw a tweet from Joel Ward which immediately got my attention: Joel and I went back and forth on Twitter for a while. The gist of the conversation was: What is the best game in town for...
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The JavaScript CompressorRater
When I release a new version of my SPServices library, I always release two versions: the regular JavaScript/jQuery file and the minified version of the same. Minification “squishes” the scripts...
View ArticleCan You Minify or Compress XSL?
I got this question in one of my courses over at the USPJ Academy, and I though the answer might be more widely useful. JavaScript files (and CSS files) can be minified for production use) – ref. your...
View ArticleNeat Trick to Ensure You’re Serving Up “Fresh” Script and CSS in SharePoint
This is a cool trick devised by one of my colleagues at my current client. (Confidentiality reigns supreme in client situations. Suffice it to say that this wasn’t my bright idea, but I give credit to...
View ArticleWhy Use DOM Manipulation Over Custom Code?
Every once in a while, I write a fairly long response to a question in one of my USPJ Academy courses that just feels like a blog post. Here’s another one of those. We’ve been discussing why you would...
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How to Fix "Sys.ArgumentTypeException: Object of type ‘Sys._Application’...
Image via CrunchBase In one of my client projects, we kept seeing this error, and basically ignored it for a long time. In our case, we saw the errors specifically on pages that included NewsGator Web...
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Script in Content Editor Web Parts (CEWPs) in SharePoint 2010
<UPDATE> 2010-10-27: After you read this, be sure to read Christophe’s follow-up to this post: About Scripts, Web Parts and Urban Myths. He gives some other specifics you’ll probably need....
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Adding Expand/Collapse Logic to your Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) –The Easy Way
Live and learn. Maybe that’s my mantra. One thing I can tell you is that the first time I come up with a way to do something, it’s rarely the best. If I look at some old code of mine and think it’s...
View ArticleUsing SPServices & jQuery to Clone a Parent Item and All Its Children:...
Mark Rackley (@mrackley) is definitely earning the salary I’m paying him as the Marketing Manager for SPServices. (Yes, that salary is zero.) He posted another great article about Using SPServices...
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Adding Script into a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) in SharePoint 2007
This post was cross-posted on NothingButSharePoint.com on 26 April, 2011. This one may seem so obvious as to not merit a post or two, but I get questions on it often enough and I realized that if I had...
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Adding Script into a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) in SharePoint 2010
This post was cross-posted on NothingButSharePoint.com on 9 May, 2011. In my earlier post, I showed how to add script into a page using the CEWP in SharePoint 2007. In this post, I’ll do the same for...
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SharePoint Myths – Part 2
Last week I had the privilege to hear the well-known author Dan Brown speak at a dinner for my alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy. You undoubtedly have heard about a little book he wrote called The Da...
View ArticleUsing Script to Hide Content: Not Always a Good Idea
I got a question on one of my other blog posts today called Determining if a User Is in a Permission Group with SharePoint’s Web Services: hi marc, do u know a good solution to hide something on a page...
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"One of the most impressive web pages I have ever seen in SharePoint"
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...
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Finding the Distribution of Column Types in a SharePoint List with SPServices
I just went through a little exercise that was simple, but fun, and I thought I’d share. As part of building my new SPXmlToJson function for SPServices, I wanted to spin through some of my lists to see...
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SPServices v0.7.1ALPHA7 Available for Testing
I posted a new alpha of SPServices v0.7.1 today. Even though I just released v0.7.0 in early December, I’ve been working steadily to get some great new functionality and performance improvements into...
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Cool SPServices Developments Today
A couple of cool things happened today with SPServices that I thought I’d capture in a post. First, I saw a couple of tweets this morning from Ryan Kirkman (@ryan_kirkman). Ryan runs a CDN for...
View ArticleWorking with SharePoint People Pickers with jQuery: A New Function Called...
Notice2012-09-07 – Note that I’ve added a more robust version of this function into SPServices v0.7.2, which at this writing is in beta but will be released soon. See the docs for SPFindPeoplePicker. I...
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SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Button Error –"Access is denied. sp.ui.rte.js…"
Heather Waterman (@hwaterman) and I turn to each other fairly regularly when either of us is stuck on something that we know the other will understand better. It’s the tremendous value of the...
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