Have you ever had to deal with the ‘Multiple-Selection List box’ in InfoPath? What a headache it can be if you are not familiar with how to get the selected values. I am using an infoPath 2013 form with SharePoint. I had a multiple selection list box called request with the following values “Software, Space…
I have been dealing with a bit of nuisance in the past couple of days that has been driving me crazy. I have an InfoPath form that is used to request resources and sent to the proper approvers for approval. Because there can be multiple approvers, I added them to a SharePoint group I created and…
Though I have been late to the game, I have been very fascinated with Client Side Rendering (CSR). I have been learning a lot about it lately because of the wonderful things that it can do. A lot of people use the term CSR interchangeably with JSLink but they both mean different things. JSLink is the…
In the past couple of weeks, I have had the most challenging time allowing anonymous users the ability to post a comment to my (used to be) public SharePoint blog. Apparently, this is a known issue with SharePoint 2013. When an anonymous user enters a comment, they get the following error: TypeError: Cannot read property…
SharePoint 2010 Used We had a task in which we had to show and hide items on a page based on which group a user belonged to. We needed a way to identify if the current user belonged to a specific group. We were able to accomplish this using the “GetGroupCollectionFromUser” operation of SPServices. Lets…
Note: This post assumes you know a little about “SharePoint“, “jQuery“, “SPServices“, “Google Charts” and “HTML” The other day I was asked by our client to create a site collection chart showing the relationships between all the sites and sub-sites in the site collection. This would be similar to an organizational chart showing the hierarchy…
In my last blog post, I wrote about creating a Pie Chart in SharePoint using Google charts. In this post, I will show how to create a bar chart using the same data. It’s going to be a short post because it requires changing one line. Before I proceed to the purpose of this post,…
Lately, I have been involved with a lot of Google Chart work. For those of you that don’t know, Google Charts allows you to create different kinds of graphs to visualize your data. These kinds of graphs include: Pie Charts, Bar Charts, Line Charts, Table Charts, etc. You can check out the rest of the…
So I was looking for sample data to add to my SharePoint site so I can practice on creating different kinds of google charts. I came across this site, fakenamegenerator.com, which can generate data for you. I also found this site too, Contextures. It does not give you a lot of data but enough to…
Here’s how to update a list item based on a id using SP Services. This is a snippet of code from one of my projects. It updates a list based on ‘itemID’.
I was working on a project the other day and needed to get the id of an inserted item into a SharePoint 2007 custom list. I was not even sure if it was possible and if there was any sample code out there. With faith and my good friend beside me, Google, I began my…
I was faced with a challenge the other day of having a linkable image to replace a regular link in my list library view, and here’s how I solved it. So, I had a list and one of the columns was called “Document Location” which was a link to a document. See below: The customer…
