By Eric Layne on May 15th, 2012 // No Comments
Following up on my recent post about mobile application development, I thought I would share my experience using the jQuery Mobile framework. The jQuery Mobile framework is a set of user interface components (buttons, lists, toggles, etc.) that work well on the smaller displays of mobile devices. Where a standard HTML checkbox control might be too small to effectively use on a small screen, the jQuery Mobile replacement is more “finger friendly.” In addition to the usability aspects, the jQu...
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By Eric Layne on May 1st, 2012 // No Comments
I recently had the opportunity to build my first mobile application. It is a simple data collection application based on a form. It’s the kind of app that has been written thousands of times to support myriad business processes. The cool new wrinkle is that by putting it on a phone, the support staff in the field now has the ability to feed data directly into the back end system, instead of phoning a call center and dictating the details to an operator who fills out the form while seate...
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By Eric Layne on July 13th, 2007 // No Comments
I recently had a need to add a custom web part page to my SharePoint 2007 site. Following the various examples that I found, I ended up with something like this in my elements.xml.WebPartPage.aspx is a source file included in my feature project under the PageTemplates folder. This worked fine.I then added a link to this page in my Quick Launch bar and all was good.I soon realized that the webparts that I put on this page accessed a SharePoint list that not everyone had access to. The webparts wo...
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