Comments on: How to Use Prototype and Script.aculo.us in SharePoint

By: shereen

shereen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:17:22 +0000

Hi Erik, this is very interesting. Actually, I have been reading that Microsoft is now going to include JQuery in Visual Studio and so I was going to take a little time to learn the differences between JQuery and Prototypejs. I haven’t used prototype in the scenario you described, but i’m interested to see if JQuery behaves a little differently. that link you provided definitely sheds some light on the problem. Let me know if you discover anything more.

By: Erik Burger

Erik Burger — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:17:06 +0000

Hi Shereen, I finally got the time to look further into incorporating scripting in SharePoint. I came across an interesting post here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/959681f1-61d4-4b11-8e43-40c793f2c2d7/ I don’t know if you knew this already but it might be interesting. We will be using the rich text editor in an internal project so I am now forced to look into JQuery (http://www.codeplex.com/jQueryScriptManager). Not too shabby but I like Prototype better Regards, Erik

By: Erik Burger

Erik Burger — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:16:40 +0000

Hi Shereen, Your post is exactly what I am looking for but unfortunately I am having some trouble getting Prototype to work for me. My situation is somewhat different; I am building a Webpart that contains a Usercontrol in which I want to use the Prototype library. I’ve done the following: 1. I copied the prototype.js file to the LAYOUTS directory in the 12 Hive. 2. I added to the top of my .ascx file (just below the @ directives, of course. 3. I have an asp:Panel with an ID=”searchPanel” 4. I have an asp:Button with an OnClientClick=”$(‘searchPanel’).toggle();” But this does not seem to work at all. In my page source I can see the script reference, as well as the Panel and Button (with the correct attributes) but nothing happens. Can you shed some light? Thanks in advance, Erik