A coworker wanted to change the width of a textarea on a new-form. This is, as it turns out, not so easy.
The textarea is a complex component, containing lots of other components.
Category: sharepoint
Change width of a SharePoint rich text editor (textarea field – multiline text)
Get a list of site users with no code via SharePoint Designer
Just like last time, when we created a list containing the sub sites, we can use the data source and a data view to display all site users that have access to a site. 1)Open the site in SharePoint Designer. 2)Go to the Data Sources block and click on the button SOAP Service Connection 3)Add …
Get subsites of a SharePoint 2010 via jQuery
If you want to get the subsites of a SharePoint site, here is how you can get subsites of a SharePoint 2010 site via jQuery.
Open a SharePoint 2010 screen as modal dialog wherever you want via jQuery
My coworker at Belfius just found this cool trick to make your input screens cooler. He pointed me to the blog of Tobias Lekman: You can use the SP.UI.ModalDialog namespace via javascript. What his code does is open a SharePoint 2010 screen as modal dialog: The code Simply point the url to the page you …
Get time from a SharePoint Date / time field via jQuery
Getting the hours and minutes from a SharePoint Date / Time field is not easy in jQuery because it is a complex control. Here is the code on how to do it!
Get / Set the SharePoint UI language code via jQuery / Javascript
I was searching around how to get and set the SharePoint UI language for a user (the language of SharePoint when a user is logged in) for a multilanguage project. John Liu helped me out on the msdn forum: To set the language for a user (make sure you have the required language packs installed) – …
Fun and clear movie about SharePoint Governance
The people from 21Apps just released this fun movie. It takes about 6 minutes and it explains the 5 key pillars of SharePoint Governance
Get the value of a SharePoint People Picker field via javascript
The ever handsome and cunning Marc D. Anderson (I felt like giving the man credit, since I use so many of his solutions!!) saved my behind once again with a fantastic javascript!
This time I was looking to find a solution to get the value from a people picker field via jquery.
Why I stopped using BCS and started loving SharePoint Designer DataSource
In Standard Edition SharePoint, you don’t have the BCS Webparts, so you cannot use parameters to query the exact item you need. I only found a way to get the item via a load of all items, and then a filter of those items.
That is when I discovered the Datasources in SharePoint Designer
Enable “Append changes” on multiline textfield in SharePoint 2010
In the default SharePoint “Issue Tracking” list you have the “Comments” field. Every time you add text to it and save the item, it is stored and the current text is added to the previous. You can get the same behavior an ony other multiline textfield in SharePoint 2010 you create. When you create the field, check …