Archive for October, 2012

jQuery + Apostrophes – Why do you make it so hard to love you

Posted October 19, 2012 By Kevin Bennett

This site I am working is seems to hate me (as the last few posts can contest). We ran into another problem last night when the Publisher tried to create a new Banner on the Rotating Banner. When they entered the title that included an apostrophe none of the text after the apostrophe showed up. Being a sys admin my answer was just don’t use apostrophes, but they are all communications majors so to them there is a big difference between “Childrens” and “Children’s”.
From my understanding it is because the JSON is using the Single Quote for escape characters hence the apostrophe appears to be the end of the text.

The work around for this was to use the ASCII code for apostrophe so publishers have to enter the text with the code instead of an apostrophe. The Client would then convert the code into an ‘.

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jQuery Rotating Banner Errors – IE vs Chrome

Posted October 18, 2012 By Kevin Bennett

So we created a Rotating Banner that pulls from the Blog Posts in the Sharepoint Blog but were having an issue with it showing in IE and Firefox but not in chrome. The actual solution I will post later but wanted to capture the fix incase it comes up someplace else.

In the jQuery SPServices Operation of GetListItems we needed to change:

jQuery(xData.responseXML).find("z\\:row").each(function(i)
to
jQuery(xData.responseXML).find("z\\:row, row").each(function(i)

I think it actually will do 2 searches of the List Items but since there are so few (max 4 or 5) I don’t think it matters much.

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Damn I am so lazy – Default Value Calculated Fields in a List

Posted October 17, 2012 By Kevin Bennett

I know even as I was doing it that I was just being lazy. The issue was that each day I run a bitlocker script to update a chart of bitlockered machines on our intranet. The hard part (..right) was that I needed to manually create an Item in a Summary Graph so the numbers look pretty for my manager. In this list I had title, date, Bitlocker Yes, Bitlocker No. So basically I just needed to enter 4 things each morning. Being that I am a sys admin with the motto of work smarter and not harder 4 items to enter was WAY too much for me to bother with. So of course I set date to default to Today but needed a way to set the title to “MM-DD Report” (don’t judge me on originality, my manager liked it).

Simply added to the Title Column Default Setting Calculated with

=TEXT([TODAY],"MM-DD") & " Report"

So now I only have to enter 2 columns.
Now to figure out How to auto populate those other 2 fields and I might be able to sleep in an extra 5 minutes.

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