Comments on: Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL

By: Kit Menke's Blog » Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL (with SPUtility.js)

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:41:18 +0000

[...] This post is the sequel to my first post: Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL. [...]

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:45:39 +0000

Assuming you mean a single select choice field.. yes! Check out SPUtility.js.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:29:34 +0000

Did you come up with a DropDown solution?

Tks

By: Kit

Kit — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:38:32 +0000

Will, After editing the page...

Add a "Content Editor Web Part"
Click Edit -> Modify Shared Web Part
Click Source Editor
Paste in your JavaScript

Thanks, Kit

By: will

will — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:43:25 +0000

Hi,
How can i do this:
“Stick the following code in a Content Editor on your NewForm.aspx or EditForm.aspx.”

when i put the javascript code in the newform.aspx , an xslt error apears

By: Kit

Kit — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:44:41 +0000

Mike,
Your URL will have a querystring that looks something like this:

/Lists/ProjectTasks/NewForm.aspx?projectID=523&favoriteColor=Red

Then your CustomExecuteFunction will look something like this:

function CustomExecuteFunction() {
AutopopulateInputFromURL('Project ID','projectID');
AutopopulateInputFromURL('Favorite Color','favoriteColor');
}

Keep in mind the first parameter to AutopopulateInputFromURL is the name of your field as it looks in SharePoints user interface and the second parameter is the name of your query string variable (the variable in the URL).

By: MikeD

MikeD — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:58:37 +0000

How will the querystring looklike if you have multiple fields to auto populate?

By: Kit

Kit — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:22:14 +0000

Nan,
I think this probably would work for a Date only field (not Date and Time). I’m currently working on a library that will be able to populate many more types of fields so look for it soon.
Thanks,
Kit

By: Nan

Nan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:52:54 +0000

Can this work for any other datatype other than text? For example date and time?

By: Kit

Kit — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:13:09 +0000

@Shawn: Currently it will only work for textboxes. I’ll take a look and see if I can whip up something for dropdowns as well.