Contents tagged with jQuery
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URL Shortening For SharePoint 2010
I’m pretty sure everybody who is using SharePoint has sent a link to a document in a Document Library to somebody else (in an email message for example). So you probably know that links to documents (or list items) can become pretty long if the document is located in a Document Library on a site deeply buried in a hierarchy. SharePoint is of course not the only platform having this “issue” and the internet already solved it quite some time ago with URL shortening. From Wikipedia:
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SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery
Already since a long time I’ve been thinking about a web part that would search-as-you-type using SharePoint’s search engine. The idea behind this concept is that while you’re typing a query in the search box, asynchronously the query is already executed and the results are being displayed. Every time the query is changed, the results will be updated dynamically. This will allow users to see the results without going to the Search Results page, and even more: they don’t have to go back to alter their query. In such a scenario you want to avoid full page postbacks of course, so AJAX-techniques have to be used to accomplish this. A while back my first approach would be to make use of ASP.NET AJAX to build the necessary functionality in a web part for example. But during the last couple of weeks I’ve become a really big fan of using jQuery Javascript Library in SharePoint sites, and it happens to be that the search-as-you-type functionality can be created with the help of jQuery very easily. The beauty of this solution is that everything is happening on the client (in the web browser), so there is absolutely no requirement to deploy something to the server (nowadays this seems to be called ‘Assembly Free’).
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"The security validation for this page is invalid" when calling the SharePoint Web Services
When working with the out-of-the-box SharePoint web services, it may have happened to you that the Web Service response contained the following exception embedded in the XML:
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Determine the URL of SharePoint Web Services using jQuery/Javascript
If you have read some of the previous posts on this blog related to using jQuery in SharePoint 2007 sites, you probably know that it’s perfectly possible to make call the out-of-the-box SharePoint web services by making use of Javascript running in the client’s browser. This opens up a huge stream of possibilities from which I already covered some of them on my blog. A very important piece of information you need if you want to make a call to a web service is of course the URL of the web service. Figuring out this URL seems to be more trivial than it actually is. My first idea was to use the URL of the page in which the call to a web service actually happened; e.g. you’ve got a Site Page accessible in SharePoint using the URL http://mysite/mypage.aspx, so you strip the /mypage.suffix and add /_vti_bin/lists.asmx (if you’d like to call the Lists web service of course). The thing is, this will only work if your mypage.aspx file is setting in the Root Folder of your SharePoint site. For example: when you would put the Site Page in a Document Library instead, the URL of the page would be http://mysite/Shared Documents/mypage.aspx, so you’d have to strip the /Shared Documents/mypage.aspx and replace it with the Web Service suffix. This can get very complicated when you don’t know upfront in what kind of location the page will be stored (a Site Page in the Root Folder or a Document Library, an Application Page in _layouts, ...). It’s possible to write a bunch of code to figure that out, or you can make use of the following technique!
A very easy and quick way to get a reference is to make use of the alternate link SharePoint will but by default in the head section of every rendered page: