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Request for Sharepoint developer bloggers
Posted on December 15th, 2009 3 commentsI’ve got a request for the Sharepoint Developers out there that blog. A blog article or series I’d like to see is a simplified step by step process on how to take a simplistic javascript content editor web part solution and turn this into a globally deployable web part with a configuration screen when in edit mode.
We see a lot of good CEWP solutions out there that serve a particular function for a particular user. What would be great to see in detail is how to take that idea, make it user definable without having to crack open the javascript and edit settings, package it, and make it into a WSP file for global farm deployment.
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You may have to wait a little bit longer for the blog series that I plan on writing for EUSp.com, but you can checkout my slidedeck on my blog about jPoint. JPoint is a jQuery based library for Sharepoint and is on codeplex.
For now, this is how you can get started with a user confirgurable wepbart when the page is in edit mode.
Download the jPoint-0.8.zip file from http://jPoint.codeplex.com and open the jPart-template.js and paste your code where it says to inside the file. Then, put your user-defined parameters into the options array. Look at the jParts folder in that zip file to see several different examples. To see the yellow configuration screen, see the examples on http://sharejPoint.com/examples or watch the screencast on YouTube (search for SharePoint jPoint).
This design calls the webparts webservice to dynamically re-write the script within the content editor webpart (which you shouldn’t use anymore. Use the form web part because in SharePoint 2010, the cewp doesn’t allow script tags. I have a blog promised on this, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.)
Let me know if this helps. If you need help, the best way is to submit a discussion item to the emailing list via codeplex. The other jPoint contributors often are much faster at responding than I am.
-Will
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Great, that gives me something to start from. Being able to redistribute one off scripts to the masses for non-developers is very essential in my opinion.
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Wilhlaw December 19th, 2009 at 16:51