I don’t know about you, but editing my code SharePoint code files in SharePoint online is a pain. All those tabs opening become an annoyance after awhile. That pain point led me to figure out how to use Visual Studio Code to edit my SharePoint code files with no issues. It has to do with…
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I have had the pleasure of doing a lot with the VUE.js framework and I have created tons of videos on using Vue.js with SharePoint. I recently created a video on using Vuetify with SharePoint. Vuetify is a ‘Material Design Component Framework’ made for VUE. Check out the UI components. There are a plethora of…
Today I needed to use REST API to insert data into a list and I also needed to retrieve the id of the new inserted item. The code below successfully inserted my data into the list but the success handler wasn’t firing. After a bit of googling and being on SharePoint stack exchange, it was…
I have heard so many good things about NINTEX that I was excited when I finally had the chance to use it in place of SharePoint designer. My task was to create a document approval workflow. Here’s a diagram showing the process. User uploads document –> Notificaion sent to Chief –> Chief approves, disapproves –>…
There’s so much to remember when dealing with the DOM, especially when in SharePoint. I am writing this post so I don’t forget and go searching “again”. Here’s the scenario, I needed to get data from a list and populate an html dashboard that will be rendered to a SharePoint page. I use REST API…
While trying to update an item in a SharePoint 2013 list, something I’ve done many times before, I received the following error: Error: “SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property ‘apply’ of undefined or null reference. File: ScriptResource.axd, Line 5, Column: 298” Here’s the code that generated that error: The problem was in the way I was…
I was stumped the other day with something that I thought would be easy. I had a form and on the form a radio button with three options. All I wanted to do was grab the value and I was having a hard time doing so. I was able use the code below to do…
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Recently, I created a custom survey form with JSOM (JavaScript Object Model) as my choice for inserting data into a SharePoint list form. It worked perfectly on my test site but when I moved it to our live SharePoint site, I received the following error. **Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘get_current’ of undefined** var ctx…
Recently I was faced with the need to add validation to a SharePoint list form. Our environment was SharePoint 2013 on-prem so our only option was InfoPath and I refused to go down that road. So I reverted back to what any developer would do. I used plain old vanilla JavaScript and DOM development. Here’s…
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In the past few weeks, I have been fascinated with how easy VUE.js is to learn and to use. Not only is it easy to use but it easily integrates with SharePoint. For those of you not familiar with VUEJS, it is a JavaScript framework that makes development much fun and efficient. Out of all…
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