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Refreshing a Web Part Without a Postback Using jQuery’s AJAX Function
I’ve been working on several projects with good old SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). jQuery and jQueryUI sure can spice it up nicely. Recently, I decided I wanted to refresh the contents of a Data View Web Part...
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Software Development Literacy – Wave of the Future or Doomsday Device?
A few months ago, I read a newspaper article – which unfortunately I can’t find – about the idea that software development literacy may someday seem as normal as reading literacy is today. I didn’t...
View ArticleSharePoint Designer 2013′s Missing Design View – More Thoughts
I’ve written previously about SharePoint Designer 2013′s Missing Design View here on my blog as well as on the Microsoft forums and elsewhere.. My goal in writing about this and making a lot of noise...
View ArticleSharePoint Designer 2013′s Missing Design View – It’s Official
Well, Keenan Newton did a post on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog entitle Changes to the Design View in SharePoint Designer 2013 yesterday that makes it official: the Design View in SharePoint...
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...
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...
View ArticleWorking Title: Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint
Here’s something really exciting. I’m one of nine authors for an upcoming SharePoint book we’re putting together with Mark Miller (@EUSP), good old Mr. EndUserSharePoint himself. It’s going to be all...
View ArticleDetermine if a SharePoint Publishing Page Is in Design Mode (Edit Mode) with...
Today I was working on some script for the home page of a SharePoint 2013 site which added the jQueryUI accordion behaviour to all of the Web Parts within a Web Part Zone. When I went into edit mode,...
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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...
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Setting a Conditional Breakpoint in Firefox with Firebug
Every once in a while I click randomly on something and realize that I’ve been an idiot. OK, sometimes it doesn’t require clicking on anything. First off, if you’re working on client side code and you...
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SPServices Stories #19 – Folders in SharePoint are as necessary as evil. Make...
This entry is part 18 of 18 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...
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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...
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KnockoutJS with SharePoint: Fixing ‘Error: You cannot apply bindings multiple...
I’ve been using KnockoutJS to build functionality into SharePoint pages for a while now. (In case you’ve ever wondered, yes, it’s the same thing people mean when they simply say “Knockout” or “KO”.)...
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The MOSS Show SharePoint Podcast: Episode 87 – Talking JavaScript with Marc...
Back in late January, I sat down – in the virtual sense, as usual – with Hilton Giesenow (@hiltongiesenow or the slightly more active @TheMossShow) to have a chat about JavaScript for his MOSS Show...
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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...
View ArticleSemantic Versioning for SPServices?
Late last year I committed to put SPServices onto Github to encourage greater collaboration and contribution from the community. It’s definitely there now, and there are several things I’ve been...
View ArticleCalculate How Much Web Storage You’re Using
This is a quick one, but it’ll be a post I return to over and over again. When you use Web storage (a.k.a. DOM storage) – localStorage or sessionStorage – to cache data, you’ll often want to know how...
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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...
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Arctic SharePoint Challenge 2015 Notes – Part 1
I’m in Oslo at the 5th annual Arctic SharePoint Challenge. This is quite an event. As far as I know, it’s the only hackathon focused purely on SharePoint in the world. A few stats: Stats: This year's...
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