Ideas that work
The use of jQuery templates is very neat. It easily displays content in a structured way according to a defined template. Microsoft created the jQuery template plugin (https://github.com/nje/jquery-tmpl) which can be used by referencing the template script file. In this … Read More »
When a SharePoint 2010 site is opened in SharePoint Designer 2010 the user logged in to the site is usually the user logged in to the machine you are working on. Sometimes you aren’t automatically logged in and you have … Read More »
Recently I wrote a plugin which provided cascading dropdowns with jQuery and SPServices, which you can find here. To be more flexible about how to display this to the user I extended the plugin. With the extended plugin it is … Read More »
SharePoint 2010 has a lot of nice features. One of them are search refiners. The search results can be narrowed down by Result Type, Site, Author, Modified Date, etc. When knowing and seen that feature I’m really disappointed SharePoint 2007 … Read More »
The SPServices library on Codeplex (http://spservices.codeplex.com) provides a lot of useful functionality to access SharePoint data. One of the functions is the SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns function. Here is a link to the documentation of this function: http://spservices.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=$().SPServices.SPCascadeDropdowns&referringTitle=Documentation As explained on the site … Read More »
To monitor additional items not by default set up in SharePoint, custom health analyzer rules can be defined. For example the sandboxed solutions can be monitored a little bit better than SharePoint default provides. When the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed … Read More »
CAML can be used in the Client OM to query for example a list. When the list contains a lot of items it’s not a good idea to show all the items at once. CAML supports row limits, so a … Read More »
Ribbon customizations are not that easy to troubleshoot. If something is wrong, the customization simply doesn’t show up. Beside debug the JavaScript (SP.Ribbon.debug.js), checking the sequence of e.g. the button definition (not multiples of 10 or 100, because SharePoint uses … Read More »
Lately there are some questions about the AddUserToGroup and RemoveUserFromGroup functions of the SPServices library. Here some examples: Replace <groupname>, <displayname of the user>, <domain>, <loginname>, <emailaddress of the user> and <note to add> with yours, without the < and … Read More »
Back in MOSS 2007 the onet.xml file had to be edited to disable editing in SharePoint Designer. This option was a setting for everybody and all aspects at the whole site collection, no exceptions here. Fortunately this is much better in … Read More »