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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 »
Be careful with the use of GetItemById(), there are two options to use it: SPList.Items.GetItemById() SPList.GetItemById() The difference between the two is that the SPList.Items.GetItemById() loads every item into memory and then filters the set. Trust me: this can cause … Read More »
A very easy way to retrieve the guid of a list with SPServices:
Nothing new, just a quick recap for the SharePoint 2007 people and the last time I was often asked about this. No ‘Edit Page’ at ‘Site Actions’ menu On the pages newform, editform and dispform (aspx pages for list item modifications) there is … Read More »
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 »
Lookup values are internally referenced as a combination of ID(int) and field value(string) in the following format: 1;#FirstItem. The class offered by SharePoint for lookup values is SPFieldLookupValue. The method SPFieldLookupValue takes 1 or 2 values: “1;#FirstItem” (string) lookupId and … Read More »