Fun with jQuery and SharePoint In my previous post I showd how to create a slideshow in SharePoint with the help of jQuery and the Cycle plugin. Yesterday someone asked me for a feature that takes care of opening all external urls in a new window. That makes sense doesn't it. You do not want visitors...

Slideshow for SharePoint In two previous posts I demonstrated how you could use wrappers for list items in order to enable strongly typed access to list item properties. Very nice but I can imagine you guys and girls would like to see a real life example of it's usage. And I guess it would be very nice...

I promised you all I'd be back with the JavaScript to finish the Virtual Earth web part. It took me a little bit longer because a colleague of mine had a great suggestion actually. He wondered if the map could maintain state on post back AND if he could then use this state values to filter lists. In...

Default a SharePoint list does not have an option to select multiple items and looks like this: Today I’m going to show you how to create a feature that enables the selection of multiple list items to make it look like this(notice the checkboxes): JavaScript I decided to go with some jQuery to adjust...

I have to admit. I am late! Much to late! I promised you all a DownloadAsZip feature for SharePoint in a few days and it took me more than a month. But finally it’s here. First have a look at what it’s actually all about. A picture says so much more Hover the images for explanation… How did we get to...

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...

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: Exception of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException' was thrown. The security validation for this page is invalid...

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...

Mike Smith over at Tech Training Notes had a nice simple post a few weeks back on changing the default text displayed at the bottom of stock web parts in SharePoint. For example discussion boards show this text when it's blank: "There are no items to show in this view of the "Test" discussion board....

Another simple trick today. Very often people ask about how to change the tab name on sites created with the Multipage Workspace Template. A simple enough request but not something you can do out of the box. Or can you? Okay, let’s take a step back. Let’s say you want a site with tabs. There’s a built...