jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services

Reviewed: SPServices 0.7.0 (Feb 10, 2012)

tfountain — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:32:18 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - This toolset has saved us valuable time in not having to deal with interfacing directly with SharePoint interfaces. The functionality exposed by SPServices does a great job in wrapping the web services and allows us to write our processes around them easily.

New Post: SPCascadeDropdowns - 1 parent; multiple children

kbutter — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:27:42 GMT

hey marc,

I finally changed the structure of my lists to avoid the problems with updating two lists by one parent. Now I cascade the updates one by one and everything works fine. Thanks for your help!

New Post: GetGroupCollectionFromUser loosing data

ptavares — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:17:45 GMT

freetec:

Have you tried to use "readonly" instead of "disabled"? Readonly will not allow the user to edit its content, but will still submit the field information when the form is submitted...In addition, you can also attach css styling to give the fields a "disabled" look... or make it look like regular text... example:

$("input[title='Vendor']").attr('readonly','readonly').css("color", "grey");

Note: if you are using a newer version of jQuery, you may want to use .prop() when setting a field to disabled (or checked for checkboxes)... the behaviour between .attr() and .prop() changed in a recent version of jQuery (1.6 maybe? don't remember)

Paul T

New Post: Just another kudos

tfountain — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:16:09 GMT

Thank you for creating this toolset. We started using SPServices about 2 weeks ago on a SP Foundation platform and it is saving us valuable time. Thank you for your effort and time.

New Post: GetListItems not returning all columns specified in CAMLViewField

ptavares — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:08:31 GMT

mrThirsty:

Do the rows in the List have information populated in the "HowDoIDescription", "HowDoILink", and "Parent" columns?

SharePoint does not return the column in the response in the column is blank... there as a recent post here on this same problem.

If they do have data in them, insure that you are listing the "internal" name for the column and not the visible label.

_________
Paul T

New Post: $().SPServices.SPArrangeChoices in CEWP

coopsemail10 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:23:19 GMT

I want to utilize $().SPServices.SPArrangeChoices. I've read the documentation and discussions as well as I could, but I am not a developer so I do not completely understand the majority of it. I want to just use it in a content editor webpart because it will be good enough for what I need to do. This is what I have in the CEWP right now that is not working, any help is greatly appreciated:

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/Shared%20Documents/Jquery%20Code/jquery-1.7.0.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/Shared%20Documents/Jquery%20Code/jquery.SPServices-0.7.0.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {

$().SPServices.SPArrangeChoices({
listName: "",
columnName: "Affected Groups",
perRow: 10,
randomize: true
});
});
</script>

New Post: GetListItems not returning all columns specified in CAMLViewField

mrThirsty — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:43:53 GMT

I have the following SPServices call:

$().SPServices({
            operation: "GetListItems",
            async: true,
            webUrl: "http://"+document.location.hostname,
            listName: "How Do I",
            CAMLRowLimit: 0,
            CAMLQuery: "",
            CAMLViewFields: "<ViewFields><FieldRef Name=\"LinkTitle\"/><FieldRef Name=\"HowDoIDescription\"/><FieldRef Name=\"Parent\"/><FieldRef Name=\"HowDoILink\"/></ViewFields>",
            completefunc: GetDataComplete
        });

And in the function that handles the return of the data "GetDataComplete", the call only returns the Title field, yet I need it to return all the fields specified in the CAMLViewFields option.

How do I get all the columns I require back?

New Post: Get a list items across sites

sympmarc — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:42:21 GMT

Here's a blog post that gives one approach:
http://www.bentedder.com/spservices-and-jquery-pull-items-from-multiple-lists-in-sharepoint-2010/

M.

New Post: GetUserProfileByName

nileshc — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:40:01 GMT

If this helps anyone, here is a simple version I use to fetch user details:

function get_user_profile_by_login(login) {
    var user = {};
    
    var params = {
        operation: 'GetUserProfileByName',
        async: false,
        completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
            $(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("PropertyData").each(function() {
                user[$(this).find("Name").text()] = $(this).find("Value").text();                
            }); // end each

            // Easy names
            user.login = user.AccountName;
            user.full_name = user.PreferredName;
            user.email = user.WorkEmail;

        } // end completefunc
    };
    
    if (login != null) {
        params.AccountName = login;
    };
    
    $().SPServices(params);

    return user;
}

function get_current_user() {
    return get_user_profile_by_login(null);
};

New Post: jQuery deferred object support

nileshc — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:07:03 GMT

Anything in the works with respect to support for jQuery deferred object (http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object/) ? If not, it would be a good idea to work on this (I am planning to) as after jQuery 1.8, the support for success() and error() objects in $.ajax will be replaced by deferred .done() and .fail(), from what I know.

-Nilesh

New Comment on "$().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser"

sanooj316 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:46:24 GMT

Hello, Am trying to get the name of currently logged in user. Though i used $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentUser method am having trouble with people who have their name length around 40 characters. Also please let me know whether this require any aditional privileage to be granted the user. Thanks

New Post: Get a list items across sites

dchen888 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:50:09 GMT

Any other operation like GetListItems but it gets a list items of the same name across different subsites? More like this

SPSiteDataQuery spSiteQuery = new SPSiteDataQuery
{
Query = query,
Lists = string.Format(ListTemplate, ServerTemplateId),
Webs = "<Webs Scope='SiteCollection'>",
ViewFields = NewsViewFields,
RowLimit = (uint)ItemLimit
};

if not, how can I use SPservices to achieve the same goal?

New Post: ModifyUserPropertyByAccountName - accountName param

sgaurav — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:14:28 GMT

I was trying to create User Profile wizard using JQuery. I want to provide a option to admin to update other users profile. For that we have provided them the list of account id's in drop down. regional Admin can select there associates and update the profile. For that I have passed the accountName selected by user as parameter in the function. as shown below:

function userProf_saveUserProfileInfo(currentUser_Login, userPropertyXML)

{

$().SPServices({

operation: "ModifyUserPropertyByAccountName",

async:false, accountName: currentUser_Login,

newData: userPropertyXML,

completefunc: function (xData, Status) { if(Status != "error") userProf_FunctionWhenSaveInfoComplete(); else userProf_FunctionWhenSaveInfoInComplete(); }

});

};

But everytime logged in user profiles get updated. I want to know what is the purpose of this accountName. Though my issue was resolved after fetching the selected user's profile first before updating it but not sure whether fetching the user profile of selected user fix the issue or soemthing else. So want to know how the soap packet sets while we try to update other user's profile.

New Comment on "GetListItems"

dchen888 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:59 GMT

Any other operation like GetListItems but it get list items of the same name across different subsites? More like this SPSiteDataQuery spSiteQuery = new SPSiteDataQuery { Query = query, Lists = string.Format(ListTemplate, ServerTemplateId), Webs = "<Webs Scope='SiteCollection'>", ViewFields = NewsViewFields, RowLimit = (uint)ItemLimit }; if not, how can I use SPservices to achieve the same goal?

New Comment on "Lists"

dchen888 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:04:41 GMT

New Post: GetGroupCollectionFromUser loosing data

sympmarc — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:36:33 GMT

Thanks!

New Post: GetGroupCollectionFromUser loosing data

freetec — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:19:09 GMT

Thank you for your advice Marc :) never thought about this :/ I use quite a lot of SPServices in my projects and I think you did a brilliant job ;)

Thanks

Reagrds

Pawel

New Post: Create Site-Collections

iOnline247 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:57:10 GMT

That post is using the same web service that you described above. To create a site collection, you have to use Central Admin (currently)... If you need to provision a web, Client OM (2010 only) is your friend there. I even have some code to do it. ;-)

http://spdwiki.com/SitePages/SiteCreation.aspx

Cheers,

Matt

New Post: Create Site-Collections

eiben — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:16:44 GMT

I was thinking about something similar to what Laura Rogers did at http://sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=daba3a3b-c338-41d8-bf52-cd897d000cf3&ID=118&Web=dbb90e85-b54c-49f4-8e97-6d8258116ca0

New Post: Possible to retrieve all information inside Repeating Section of a InfoPath Form?

sympmarc — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:36 GMT

Jack:

I was hoping someone else would have a good answer for you on this, thus my silence. I've just never tried it.

I note that you've also posted the question here:
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/28014/spservices-to-retrieve-the-last-record-of-repeated-section-data-inside-sharepoin

I'll tweet it up to see if we can get an answer.