Hi all!

If you are using Firefox, know about Firefox Greasemonkey add-on, love javascript and jQuery, and (sometimes) you love SharePoint then this post is directly for you. If you are not using Firefox, you just can see what can be done with Greasemonkey and SharePoint, and may be you immediately start using Firefox . Let’s start.

During SharePoint development I have to click a lot in SharePoint UI. And most actions or clicks used more frequently as others. For example Site Actions –> Site Settings –> Site Features, Site Actions –> Site Permissions, Site Actions –> More Options, All Site Content, Edit Page and so on… One day I decided that this is too many clicks for me per day. To reduce number of clicks I’ve wrote Greasemonkey script to automate and increase speed of some routine actions in SharePoint. Script you can download in the download section of the post.

Currently here is main highlights of script features:

   1. Site Actions drop down replaced with “actions” link:

when mouse hover the “actions” dialog window appear (jQuery UI Dialog, it is draggable), which contains list of most used links:

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Hello all!

If you are working with SharePoint you are using lookups a lot. SharePoint renders lookup field in list forms as html <select> element. And you may know, that if items count in lookup list become more than 20, something interesting happens with lookup render mechanism. In IE (and in IE only), html <select> become an <input> with image (complex select-like control). Consider following images:

IE	FireFox

As you can see, lookup renders differently for different browsers. IE renders lookup as <input> and image, binds a couple of events to this controls to simulate auto complete behavior. This is pretty cool solution, but has its drawbacks: it works in IE only, you can’t style it, autocomplete appears when items more than 20 and you can’t control it.   I've written small jQuery plugin to fix this.

There are two methods in my plugin: fixLookup and lookupAutoComplete.

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