Chandrika's Sharepoint blog

When the fields on the Form exceeds the viewable range and we get a vertical scroll, we need to customize the sharepoint forms to display the page with out scroll. scrolling is something that should be avoided for a optimum user experience. we can customize our sharepoint forms to display the content in a different way so that user does not have to scroll to fill the details in the list form. one of the best solution is to display the fields in tabbed format. lets she how w can cusstomizae our sharepoint list to display the fields on tabs using JQuery.     First download the required JQuery files from Jquery.com as given below      http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css       http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js       http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js       Go to SharePoint Designer       Create a page as shown below:   ...

Sharepoint 2010 has got new greate feature called "Client object Model" which is very useful. Client object model helps developers in making things easier to develop client side applications in sharepoint 2010. Using client object model we can do many of things with out writing server side code. you will find enough of information on msdn about Client Object model and differerent platforms where it can be used,so iam will concentrating on ECMA script. ECMA script:have you ever thought of using sharepoint objects in client(javascript) and updating the list items without having to write server code and with out having to deploy it as feature? Yes its possible and here where ECMA script comes in to picture. In this blog i am going to write about retrieving the list data using ECMA script. Please find the code below to retrieve list data using ECMA script:            <script type="text/javascript">     ...