Power Users often request the ability to pre-populate form fields. The most straight-forward approach involves passing form field values in the URL as a query string. A while ago, the SharePoint Designer bloggers posted a solution with POJ (plain old JavaScript). Since I’m on a roll, I figured it was time to update this script with some jQuery goodness.
The one I like the most is Accordion for QuickLaunch. It is a simple JQuery script that allows users to collapse and expand sections of a SharePoint QuickLaunch menu (the latest version even remembers the ones you expanded previously). Deploying Paul’s solution is really easy. You can paste the entire script to the Content Editor Web part, or deploy the pre-packed webpart that does that.
In part two I demonstrated a single dropdown menu that controls an audio or video player in SharePoint. What if a user wants to separate files into topics? This is not easy to do with a single dropdown. You can give each topic its own dropdown menu and player but then you are back to multiple players in a window. Again I got a simple question: If a player with a dropdown is possible then why not multiple dropdowns and one player? I love that kind of logic.
In part one I demonstrated a single audio or video player in SharePoint. The player was frequently used by the site administrators in my environment. So frequently that it took less than 4 weeks for my users to out-grow a single player and request a multi file player. One of my site administrators asked a simple question: if a single player is possible then why not a multi-file player? How can you argue with that kind of logic? Back to the sandbox. As I stated in the first article, I have used this player for .WMV, .AVI and MP3 files but it will play the file types associated in each individual computer. With my company’s desktop image all 3 work fine.
My challenge was simple. Create a simple to use, easy to administer, user friendly interface that will not prompt for authentication. Although posting to YouTube and using their embedded link is an option for some, business related materials must be kept “in House” so the sound and video files must be stored and run from SharePoint.
Often it is necessary to show information in a way that cannot be created easily using SharePoint’s Rich Text Editor feature. For example, producing a table of information using the Rich Text Editor within the Content Editor Web Part often does not produce what we have in our mind’s eye. Why is formatting a table in Microsoft Word so much easier? I’m not certain why it is, but here’s a quick video on how you can use your Microsoft Word knowledge to create a table that can be presented with all of your desired formatting within SharePoint
Paul Grenier and I spent some time today going over our presentation for this Friday’s live, online workshop: Become Your Company’s SharePoint Superstar!We’ve come up with some things you’ll be able to drag-and-drop on your SharePoint pages that will make your Grandma gasp.
It’s time to decide the best way to display your links on a page. If you are using MOSS, you have what I consider five options: Links List, Content Editor Web Part, Content Query Web Part, Summary Links Web Part, and I Need to.. Web Part. It really comes down to how many links are you trying to display?
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