Ideas that work
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 »
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 »
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 »
Today I am playing around with the dialog framework and simple ribbon buttons. I want the user to select one or more items from a list and update the Status field for all the items selected. The user can edit … Read More »
While investigating and playing with the dialog framework of SharePoint 2010 I really missed some intellisense of the client object model for the javascript(ECMA) code. It seems real easy to enable intellisense and saves a lot of time! First create … Read More »
A very easy way to retrieve the guid of a list with SPServices:
Let’s adjust the previous model to enable adding new items and edit existing ones. Open the previous project and open the design view of the model (.bdcm). In the BDC Method Details window select ‘Add a method’ and ‘Create Creator … 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 »