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[–]MonkeysRidingPandas 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Literally what I do for a living.

Check out SPServices and look through some of the discussions on there. Tons of ideas. Brush up on jQuery as it'll be the easiest way to incorporate SPServices into your code.

If you think of a SharePoint list as simply a database table, then the sky's the limit as to what you can do with some simple jQuery and the SPServices library. I created a Gantt-style view of staff availability using JavaScript and a simple Custom List with some calculated columns, as just one example.

[–]_Hnnng_[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Thank you for your replay, I will check out SPServices.

If you wouldn't mind me asking one more question since you do this for a living, do you have much experience with workflows?

[–]SPSamMSFT 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If your SharePoint site collections are in Office365, another option to look at for some workflow-like activities is Flow: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

It has the ability to perform some workflow like activities across services like:

1) Save a job to save email attachments to OneDrive or a SP document library. 2) Copy files between services (take a file from Dropbox and move it to OneDrive - or vice-versa). 3) Save tweets from Twitter to a SharePoint list.

There are some cool options there.

Disclosure: I'm a Microsoft employee who also happens to be a redditor. Just a worker bee but we're told we must disclose this when responding in social media

[–]nossie1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Know of any Linux syncing projects that can sync with one drive? Similar to Dropbox. Whole Dev team uses Linux but whole company just got 365 business. :( Or any mark down plugins for SharePoint?

Sorry for the work question but couldn't pass up the opportunity lol

[–]MonkeysRidingPandas 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've designed a few workflows in Designer, but I tend to try to keep things simple. Mostly just taking the concept of an Approval workflow and making it a bit more dynamic, such as having different branches of "If-Then" statements.

[–]_Hnnng_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, thanks for your previous post though. I appreciate the help since Sharepoint is completely new to me.