Ideas that work
The article I wrote for DIWUG SharePoint eMagazine 4 now also online here: One of the new features of SharePoint 2010 is tagging. Users can tag several items within SharePoint, such as pages and list items. The tags … Read More »
In this series: Search Refiners part 1 – Expanding the OOTB search Refinement Panel Search Refiners part 2 – Use of CustomFilters Search Refiners part 3 – Chart based Search Refiners part 4 – User selection based (this post) After … Read More »
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 »
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 »
Instead of CAML you can also use a search query by using SQL or keyword syntax to search the SharePoint environment client-side by using the Search web service. The SPServices library supports the Query operation to do this. Hereby I … Read More »
On SharePoint lists you can receive email notifications when items change in a list, the ‘Alert me’ function in the Actions menu of a list. In some occasions there are multiple lists where the data in it is interesting to … Read More »
A very easy way to retrieve the guid of a list with SPServices:
On Codeplex the SPServices library is available. This is a jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services. One of the functions available in the library is the SPAutoComplete: http://spservices.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=%24%28%29.SPServices.SPAutocomplete The SPAutocomplete lets you provide values for a Single line of text column … Read More »