Comments on: Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 12 May 2012 03:27:00 +0000

Martin,
You will need to create a new link to the Upload.aspx page that passes your parameters. This means that you can’t use the out of the box upload button. Keep in mind, that you’ll need the default parameters that are passed to the page in addition to your custom one.. List, RootFolder, and Source.

The easiest way to get these, is just to click Upload like normal, copy the URL, and add your own URL parameter.
Thanks,
Kit

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:19:12 +0000

“Just to share, when you want to do this and prepopulate document library metadata, place the paramater in the upload.aspx not on the editform.aspx (page where the metadata are captured)”

This is exactly what i’m trying to accomplish (pass parameters for uploading a document to document library), but I can’t edit the “/_layout/upload.aspx” as I’m not an admin. Any other way to do this? I’ve been working non-stop on this for a few days trying to do this OOTB.

I’ve seen a write-up that recreated the multiple document upload in a CEWP, but it doesn’t call the editform.aspx afterward to capture the parameters…..

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:33:39 +0000

Chris,
Definitely! You’ll need to change the code to parse location.href for your project’s ID. Maybe use a regular expression or split: location.href.split(‘/’).
Thanks,
Kit

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:50:21 +0000

I know I’m a bit (or to be accurate very!) late on this post, but if my URLs have the format http://sharepoint.abc.def/projects/123/… is there any way of getting the 123 out of the URL given it’s not referenced by an = sign as in your examples? The 123 is my project ID and I’d like it to automatically appear in a form that writes to a central list of projects.
Thanks , Chris

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).