Marc D Anderson

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Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA.

Marc has over 25 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.

Lately, aside from client work, Marc has been:

Developer of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices)
Faculty member at the USPJA Academy
Frequent contributing author at EndUserSharePoint.com
Blogging at Marc D Anderson’s blog
Moderator at EndUserSharePoint’s Stump the Panel forums

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May 13	comment	Where to expose the data within a web part via a web service It sounds like it is a CEWP? If you want to grab an image or something out of it, you'd still have to parse the content if you did have a Web Service to call. If you write the script right, then you can handle errors gracefully if the Web Part is no longer there or if the element(s) you expect are missing.
May 13	comment	Where to expose the data within a web part via a web service Yes, that's what I'm proposing. It really depends on what that Web Part contains. Can you be any more specific?
Apr 11	comment	Detect Modal Dialog Close with JQuery SharePoint has some underlying scripts that control the scroll bars in some pages. I expect that you may spend a lot of time on this for negligible results.
Apr 11	comment	Detect Modal Dialog Close with JQuery Why are you trying to do this? It seems sort of odd to me.
Apr 7	comment	Looking for a customized filter webpart for sharepoint online Can you explain what you want to accomplish?
Mar 26	comment	Disable a form text field with jquery in CEWP not working in Chrome/Firefox These more complex controls in SharePoint are made up of multiple HTML elements tied together with script. This means that you need to look at the live DOM to see what's going on.
Feb 7	comment	SPServices/JQuery How to Detect If The Current User Is System Accout That's exactly what the get_currentUser() functions below will give, so I'm not sure what you mean.
Feb 7	comment	SPServices/JQuery How to Detect If The Current User Is System Accout I'm not sure why this wouldn't work as well as any of the other posts below. Weren't you getting the system account name?
Jan 23	comment	SharePoint Web Services: UpdateListItems and DeleteAttachment- What response to check for success? Yes. The Web Services are extremely reliable. If you send good data and get a response, it worked.
Jan 23	comment	SharePoint Web Services: UpdateListItems and DeleteAttachment- What response to check for success? Yes, the UpdateListItems response will echo what you asked the operation to do. Give it a try and you'll see what I mean.
Dec 31	comment	Global Navigation Menu hidden to the back side of web part There are a few places where Microsoft uses !important (horrible) so you can only beat that with !important. That should really be the only excuse.
Dec 30	comment	Global Navigation Menu hidden to the back side of web part Never use !important!! It will get you in the end. You need to just get good at selectors.
Dec 28	comment	Autocomplete lookup I find the best approach to SharePoint development (especially the type you seem to be doing) is to just jump in and see how it works. You'll answer many of your own questions.
Dec 28	comment	spcascade dropdowns Sorry about submitting the above comment as an answer initially. Poor typing skillz on my part.
Dec 18	comment	Autocomplete lookup No, I'm not familiar with that Codeplex project. I'd always use jQueryUI and SPServices to do something like that. You had originally asked about managed metadata. It gives you what amounts to an autocomplete function with the Taxonomy Picker. Have you used it yet?
Dec 17	comment	Autocomplete lookup I think it depends greatly on what you want to do with the "team" once you've entered all of the players. For instance, a multi-select People Picker would let you pick all of the players and they would be stored in one item's column.
Dec 14	comment	Problem using viewFields to return more fields Not all columns are returned by default. If you don't specify anything, you get the columns in the default view. If you want to override that, set the ViewFields in your CAML.
Nov 24	comment	Data View Web Part in Sharepoint 2010 If you had read my answer above, you had the answer already. I really didn't understand what you were asking.
Nov 23	comment	SharePoint Designer Workflow Not Always Firing Nothing truly useful in the logs on this, but I'm working now on the assumption that recursion in my workflow may be an issue. Since the workflow changes columns in the current item, it will cause itself to be fired again, which is apparently a no-no. The fact that the workflow works most of the time makes that a strange possibility, though.
Nov 21	comment	Data View Web Part in Sharepoint 2010 In the dropdown in the upper right of the DVWP in the broswer, you should see Export as an option.