If you open a custom page (not a list item form) in a modal dialog, your notification won’t be shown. The reason is that the notification area (#notificationArea) is inside a hidden div (#s4-ribbonrow). To show this notificationArea we must display the notification area: var $ribbon = jQuery("#s4-ribbonrow"); if ($ribbon.is(":hidden")) { $ribbon.css({"min-height": 0, "height": "0px"}) .show().children().hide() .filter("#notificationArea").show() } Comments from Wordpress.com Jens Malmberg - Jan 3, 2013 Thanks a bunch again, your solution was the only good information i found quickly.

Found a nice post about private variables and “methods” in javascript. Consider this example: function Pizza() { var price = 0; this.setPrice = function(p) { price = p; }; this.getPrice = function() { return price; }; } ```Every variable and function inside the main function is private unless it is appended to "this".

There are two great patterns for organizing javascript code: Prototype and Module pattern. More about them later in this post. But in reality I still see much of spagghetti Just an example: SharePoint 101 code samples. They are indeed very simple and isolated examples. And many projects use this simple way in mind when they begin. But when javascript code grows, it becomes a monster. Have you seen this biest? How is this monster created?

I know, node.js has been present for a while. But I actually had no time to try it. I was surprised that now it is very straight forward to start with node.js. Allright, everything begins with Hello world. Eventhough it is available for allmost all combinations of operating systems and servers, the easiest way to test it was actually Ubuntu. To install just run: sudo apt-get install nodejs ```Then make a new directory and create the hello.

A simpler interface for event handling in jQuery. Just read Dan Wahlin’s blog.

console.log is the best tool for debugging javascript. In Firefox Firebug and Chrome Dev Tools you can even log objects which are represented as tree nodes of properties. If Firebug or Dev Tools in Chrome and IE9 are not opened, all these messages are ignored. But IE8 doesn’t understand console (if Dev Tools are closed) and raises an error: To avoid these errors, just declare an empty function just for IE8–:

To show a popup, we just have to invoke “window.open”, and provide some options to prevent opening this in a new tab: var wnd = window.open('', '\_blank', 'width=750, height=400, location=no, resizable=1, menubar=0, scrollbars=0'); wnd.document.write(''); wnd.document.close(); wnd.document.close(); wnd.focus(); To communicate between parent and child we can refer to parent as window.opener. We can even invoke a function from parent window. Let’s create the most useful function: foo = function() { console.log("foo"); } ```Then just click on "hej" in the popup, and see the console.

Why should we need to serialize javascript objects as XML. I don’t know. It is of course more a server side need. And there actually a need for javascript serialization as xml in node.js. To serialize as json is very simple: JSON.stringify(myobjects). I was just curious if there was a tool for xml serialization in javascript. There is a nice javascript tool called XMLWriter, developed by Ariel Flesler. Consider you have articles and want to serialize them as xml, let’s create a function for serializing:

Wouldn’t it be nice to use html5 and css3 in SharePoint? No problems, there is actually v5 master out there, created by Kyle Schaefer. Or just use h5ml5 and css3 right away in your webparts and pages. But there is a big problem. It doesn’t work in IE9–. One of the issues (even listed by Kyle) is that “save” doesn’t work in modal dialogs where Rich Text Editor is used. Especialy it is for modal dialogs.

SPServices is a great tool, really nice work, Marc Anderson (@sympmarc). It has been there all the time I have developed for SharePoint. But the fact that you work with XML and you must parse the attributes (!) was the reason why I prefered listdata.svc and Client Object Model, where you get objects in JSON or you have a nice API to get objects and their properties. But there is an area where SPServices are really the best tool: SharePoint Web Services which only understand SOAP like SocialDataService.