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  Finally I was able to get a copy of the video (with audio) we recorded from my presentation back in March (2015) available publicly. Please see below a link to my presentation on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/126519910 Enjoy!

Below is a link to a slide deck of a presentation I gave last month at our local SharePoint user group (vSharePoint). The main theme of the presentation was in regards to how to combine together JavaScript with the SharePoint UI to add some sweet, interactive behaviours that truly add value to the end consumer. …

About a month or so ago we were working on a client project with the requirement to create a mechanism for displaying links to URLs that were too long for hyperlink column in a SharePoint Links List (that column has a 255 character max). The solution was fairly straightforward. We used JSLink to create a …

I found this brilliant (and short) blog post about how to pre-expand the annoying “Show More” link in a SharePoint task list. Namely this sort of thing, seen below: Here’s the blog post (link), and just for good measure, I’ve captured the heart of it below, just in case the link goes offline. http://ingessharepointnotes.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/expand-long-list-forms-by-default/ … …

I tend to need to do this sort of thing a lot recently, and it’s not as simple as looking for a pre-fetched value sitting in the DOM somewhere, so I figured I better blog it and then I’ll know where to find it. Here’s my code (below). All you have to do is call …

Note: The technique described below is designed for SharePoint 2013.  It could be adapted to 2010, but it’s not likely to work in 2010 with a simple copy/paste. Note 2: This also should work just fine in Office 365, so get ready to knock some socks off. In SharePoint 2013 we at itgroove have a …

A customer of ours had an issue with the out of the box photo rotator in SharePoint – every few minutes it kept prompting them for credentials.  After some inspection, I noticed that pretty much every rotator solution would always change the image by swapping between two <img> elements, and changing the URL of the …

There have been a number of times I’ve forgotten that there’s a kind of black magic going on with the JS Link field in SharePoint List Views.  I’m writing this mostly to remind myself of how to do it properly, but also to help anyone else out there who may be running into the same …

I recently ran into a situation where I wanted to pull some content from another web site, however, due to a configuration constraint, I was unable to to this in a normal fashion.  Essentially, there was a table of data (a subset of the content on the page) on another site which I wanted to …

The Challenge You want to create a dashboard which will automatically refresh itself on a regular basis The Solution This is easily accomplishable using a SharePoint Web Part and little bit of scripting, JavaScript in this case, to be precise. How to Accomplish This Task Start by going to the page you want to edit, …