Business Technology

Thanks to everyone that came out to SharePoint Saturday. Thanks to Eric Shupps for getting everything organized and getting some great speakers out to talk about SharePoint! I appreciate all those that came to listen to my session on using jQuery to make the end user's experience better in SharePoint. There were a few technical issues, but I think everyone was excited to hear about what jQuery can do for them. There are plenty of resources out there for everyone to get quick pieces of code to use in their implementation, but don't think that it is too complicated for you to start writing your own! On the Manning website there is code that can be downloaded for you to test out your jQuery skills against a sample DOM. You should also pick up the jQuery in Action book to go with the sample code so you can follow along and get the best learning experience. The slide decks should be out on the SharePoint Saturday website or you can use this direct link. Over the next few weeks ...

This was a fun adventure that ended with me solving the problem and Microsoft support not responding. Of all the ways to submit a form to a SharePoint library only one of them works according to MS. The simple way of using a Data Connection with stored credentials was not allowed as MS considered it a security risk. Doing a direct submit to the library is out too! What's the only way? Create your own web service and submit your form to it so it can use elevated privileges to save to the SharePoint library. That and the combination of either one of two things. Not precisely sure which one did it since I did both just to cover all bases. Since I got it to work in my dev environment that was running on a VM with SP2 installed my boss determined, with pressure from our client, that we needed to install SP2 on the production server. A little premature since it hasn't been out that long and there was a least one major thing broken with the update. Yes the fix was simple, but it was a...