In Master Pages and Page Layouts, there is often a need to reference .NET code blocks within a ASP.NET control. A common example is referencing a SharePoint resource within a control such as <asp:Label … [Continue reading]
Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint Released
September 3, 2013 By 1 Comment
I am pleased to announce the arrival of a new book on SharePoint that I had the pleasure of helping author. This is a must read for anyone looking to combine SharePoint (2010 or 2013) and JavaScript/jQuery. You can order Black Magic Solutions for … [Continue reading]
SharePoint 2013 Structured Navigation – Dynamic Menus Fixed – August 2013 CU
August 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
When many of us upgraded to SharePoint 2013, we quickly noticed that our SharePoint menus did not behave as expected. In particular with structured navigation we would only have three levels of our site included in SharePoint navigation. For most … [Continue reading]
Custom JavaScript Code After a Display Template Loads
July 11, 2013 By 4 Comments
Display templates are one of my favorite new features of SharePoint 2013. That and the Design Manager. Anyhow, with display templates it is now much more easy to retrieve results from search and display the results in a custom manner. What I often … [Continue reading]
The Summer of SharePoint 2013 and Responsive Design
July 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
With the summer upon us, it is time to gear up, get some training and be ready for when your coworkers' vacations end and end of the year projects need to be completed. If you are being tasked to deploy a new SharePoint site, have you consider mobile … [Continue reading]
Get a Site Collection and Web Path Using JavaScript in SharePoint 2013
July 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
If you need to quickly get the site collection path or the specific web path of a current SharePoint 2013 site using JavaScript, use the _spPageContextInfo JavaScript object variable and its properties. A possible scenario includes creating a link to … [Continue reading]
SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2013 Recap
June 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Wow, it has been too long since my last post. I have been busy with the final push to publishing my book, "Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development" (Apress June 2013), which is now available for purchase, as well as helping … [Continue reading]
Zurb Foundation for SharePoint 2013
May 13, 2013 By 2 Comments
I am pleased to announce that one of the CodePlex projects I lead, Responsive SharePoint, has released a new responsive framework conversion for SharePoint. The latest release is Zurb Foundation for SharePoint 2013. We had to delay the release longer … [Continue reading]
What’s New in SharePoint 2013 Web Content Management
May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I have heard some talk around the proverbial water cooler that previous versions of SharePoint were not the best for Web Content Management. I disagree as I have helped build some really nice public facing sites on SharePoint. Anyhow, I digress. If … [Continue reading]
Branding SharePoint 2013 Tricks – 6 – Hiding Elements in Dialogs
May 2, 2013 By 19 Comments
SharePoint 2013 allows us to hide site elements in dialogs just as we could in SharePoint 2010. Just be aware that the class we add to such elements we wish to hide has changed. The Problem: In a custom branding project you add a new … [Continue reading]
