SPUtility.js version 0.4 should be getting released soon (week or so??). I wanted to put a quick post out there to highlight some of the upcoming features and fixes.
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This post is the sequel to my first post: Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL.

Let’s use the same example, but this time take advantage of SPUtility.js (the open source JavaScript library I maintain).

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I recently got asked if it was possible wrap the column headers in a list view web part. The user had a WebPart with quite a few columns with long names and was trying to prevent the page from scrolling left to right.
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In this era of Web 2.0 web applications, I think it was only a matter of time before I needed to investigate how I could apply AJAX to SharePoint. With a little JavaScript and SharePoint’s web services, you can build fancy apps that can easily be dropped into a document library. And after reading Glen Cooper’s blog post on the subject, I figured it was something definitely worth investigating.

I also took this opportunity to improve a process I have to do all the time: what are the internal column names in a list? To get the list information, I built a simple AJAX app that consumes the Lists.asmx web service. Please keep in mind that this code will have be uploaded into SharePoint in order to work (a document library will work) and will not run from your desktop.

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November 10, 2010 Update: I’ve posted the sequel to this post: Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL (with SPUtility.js). I’ll leave the original intact just in case someone wants it, but I would highly recommend checking out the new and improved way using SPUtility.js!
August 20, 2010 Update: The code below has moved to be part of a bigger library… check out SPUtility.js on CodePlex!

Original Post:
This post builds off of my previous post about making fields read only. In this case, I needed to autopopulate the NewForm.aspx with a value that gets passed to the form via URL parameters.

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