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Comment on Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL (with SPUtility.js) by Kit

Kit — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:27:39 +0000

Vijay,
Thanks and I’m glad that SPUtility.js is working well for you.

You can reuse the GetValueFromURL function for multiple URL parameters. I’ll try to keep my example here similar so you can see my changes:

Event.observe(window,'load',function(){
try {
SPUtility.GetSPField('Project ID').SetValue(GetValueFromURL('projectID'));
SPUtility.GetSPField('Name').SetValue(GetValueFromURL('name'));
} catch (ex) {
alert(ex.toString());
}
});

Or.. here is another example that is more similar to my old post but uses SPUtility.js and supports a lot more fields:

Hopefully one of those examples will get you started!
Thanks,
Kit

Comment on Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL (with SPUtility.js) by vijay

vijay — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:01:58 +0000

The JavaScript library you have created is simply awesome and works perfectly.

However, your march 2010 post had code where I could set multiple fields via the URL.

For example: http://myurl.com/NewForm.aspx?projectID=523&name=vijay

I could then easily set both fields by calling the same function twice.

function CustomExecuteFunction() {
AutopopulateInputFromURL('Project ID','projectID');
AutopopulateInputFromURL('Name','name');
}

How can I reuse the GetValueFromURL function similarly?

P.S: I am pathetic when it comes to code; I can read and understand someones code but can’t come up with my own.

Any help/suggestions are most welcome.

Comment 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

Comment on Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL 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…..

Comment on Wrap ListViewWebPart Column Headers by Brady

Brady — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:36:50 +0000

Hello,

I tried to implement this in SharePoint 2010 and my column heading did not wrap. Any ideas?

Thanks

Comment on Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL 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

Comment on Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL 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

Comment on Editing in SharePoint’s SPGridView by Kit

Kit — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:06:37 +0000

Actually, I found another post which may be more helpful for you: http://suehernandez.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/moss-spgridview-with-checkbox-column/

Check out the cmdSubmit_Click function on that page. You can iterate over the rows in your grid to get the Checkbox control:
foreach (GridViewRow row in gridView.Rows)
{
CheckBox cb = row.Cells[0].Controls[0] as CheckBox;
// do something…
}

Remember, we separated our business logic out into the SimpleLogic class which is why the grid is not available there. This means, that you need to call SimpleLogic from your grid class. If you’re trying to pass a value from the checkboxes, you’ll need to get that data on a postback and then call SimpleLogic with those arguments.

Comment on Editing in SharePoint’s SPGridView by Richter

Richter — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:45:36 +0000

Thanks Kit, i created a checkbox field now following that link., how can i check if the checkbox is check? i cannot see _grid in the SimpleLogic class.

Comment on Editing in SharePoint’s SPGridView by Kit

Kit — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:05:15 +0000

Richter,
As I mentioned earlier, take a look at TemplateField: http://www.reversealchemy.net/blog/2009/07/08/building-a-spgridview-control-intermezzo-templatefields-and-the-rowcommand-event/
Thanks,
Kit