To start I am somewhat junior when it comes to web development. I've been around it quite a bit, but never had to develop on my own until the last six months or so. Don't dumb down your answers, I can follow you, but I do lack experience. This is an extra duty for my job and I am trying to self improve.
If you have ever used the group calendar it isn't very good for actually sharing calendars. For instance my users in group A do not have a drop down menu to view users in group B unless they are also a part of that group. I could put everyone in one group and load several thousand people, but I seriously doubt it would load. It definately would suck to look at.
What I want are convenient buttons that will display different user groups I setup when clicked. My users can type the name of the group in the "add person" field if they already new what the group was called and load that group, but 95% of my users do not have the skill level or patience to use the navigation ribbon to find groups they want to add. Sad but true.
Anyway.. I have monitored scripts triggering with firebug when I add a group. I would like to simulate that event using javascript and a button so my users dont have to navigate through the ribbon to show different groups.
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In the code ISR Members is the group that is being displayed.
I am stuck in that I am not even sure what I am looking at and if I can use this to solve my problem. Is my problem even solvable via this method?
In my mind I would think I could write a function to execute the above piece of code whenever a button is clicked. Would it be this simple?