This is an online 365 SharePoint client. On several of our sites there are Lists which have had fields disappear. On the lists view, the column is still there, but the item is gone from the new-item and edit forms. One of the disappearing fields was "Title". It was a required field so I'm surprised the form could be submitted, but it was. An ID# populates that field on the view for record created with the field missing.
Going to List Settings and opening and saving the field re-activates it on the forms. It is unknown how long the fix lasts.
(next day)The fix is still holding. But now I see that in the content type (Item) the Title field is set to "Hidden". I wonder how that happened? Two weeks ago I created a custom content type used at a different site, which inherits "Title" from the Item content type. I was pretty careful not to mess with any existing content types, but I wonder if that event caused my problem somehow.
Any idea what might be causing it?
This is a Content Type problem. CT's inherit qualities from master (Site Setting) CTs. If the master CT has a field set to hidden CTs the inherit from it will also get the field set to hidden - although not necessarily always. It is possible to set the local CT different. Not sure how long it will stay different.
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I'm looking into an issue with a large SharePoint 2010 list (68 fields) where when the user tries to add new fields to the list, they do not show up.
I can successfully make changes to old fields, but every new field I add doesn't show up. However, they DO show up as an available field in SharePoint Designer and on the List Properties page.
I've tried enabling Content Type Management and making changes, (a common solution) but that didn't seem to help.
Anyone see this before?
While I don't know what caused this, the solution was to use SP Designer to create a new New Item Form. When I did that, the new custom columns appeared.
NOTE: Simply recreating the New form was not enough. I had to create a New Item form with a different name and set it as the Default for that type.
I have a SharePoint list that has MANY columns in it. The default AddForm and EditForm rendering is very cumbersome for the users. Most of these fields hold simple Number (integer) values. The default rendering for those two forms (using the ListFieldIterator I suppose) render the columns one by one vertically down the page. My thought was to design an input form with three basic "zones" (left/middle/right) and use a Custom Field for all of these "Number" fields. The Custom Field would contain two custom variable properties "Zone" and "Order". (Zone could contain middle/right and order would be the "order" in that zone the field would appear, the "left" zone would be for the fields that are not these "Number" fields, things like Date, Customer, etc. etc.) I would design the page with an HTML table and 6 Columns (1 for the "label" and one for the "TextBox" for each of the three "zones"). Then I could put a control (something similar to the "ListFieldIterator"). The control in the first zone would render the "static" fields, the zones in the other two zones would render the appropriate Custom Fields (based on the Custom Variable Property "Zone" and "Order").
Does this make sense? For the life of me, I can't figure out how to do this. I had thought about "giving up" and just using my ASP .Net skillset and creating FormViews and GridViews bound to the proper (ListView) DataSources. That has even proved challenging.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could accomplish this? (InfoPath isn't an option and I want to stay with the "Custom Field" idea so the fields aren't laid out statically and can be moved around or even new ones added by the "administrator" of the Application (SharePoint List).
Any guidance is MUCH appreciated. I have been working on this all week and just seem "stuck".
Thanks,
Shayne
------ A Better explanation of my "application" and what I want to do-----
I have a SharePoint List that has about 60 fields in it. If I pushed this application out using the default Add/Edit SharePoint List Forms (and Rendering Templates), the users would hate it. The default forms use a rendering template that basically lays out all the list fields, one per (HTML) Row. Within that Row there are two (HTML) columns. The first one contains the "Label" for the field, and the second (HTML) column is the actual editor for the "FormField" (Text Box or whatever). Because of the number of fields in the list, the user would have to scroll several pages just to get to the bottom.
This list has about 10 "static fields" that I want to lay out on the left side of the page and then about 50 that are simply "task" fields. These store an integer and track "how many of these tasks did I do today". (This is a "port" of an MS Access application.) Depending on the "Add" page the user selects (I have a "parent" content type that contains every field and then a "child" content type for each "group" of users that will be using this form that contains just the fields/tasks that group tracks) the proper fields are rendered on the page. The problem is they are all rendered vertically and there is too much scrolling. These users (and admins) will NOT have access to SharePoint Designer or InfoPath. So, the "layout" for these fields must be iterator/repeater style (the users shouldn't have to get Development involved just to add a new "task" field to their application!).
The solution I had come up with is to use a Custom Field Type with two Custom Property Variables for each of these "task" fields. The Custom Property Variables (Zone and Order) would allow the administrators of the "application" to control where they want these fields to appear on the Add and Edit forms. The Zone Property can contain one of two values: "1st Task Column" (middle of the form) or "2nd Task Column" (right part of the form). (The "left" column of the forms would be used for those 10 or so "static" fields that all groups/depts/content types share.)The Order would just contain the order to sort the fields in, within their "zone". Obviously, the "zone" would indicate where on the form the field would appear (middle or right). I thought I might be able to use three Divs and render the appropriate List Columns in the appropriate DIVS. Or, following the default rendering template, instad of DIVs I could possibly use 6 (HTML) Columns instead of 2.
I quickly figured out how to make a new Field Type with Custom Properties (I used the Property Schema element in the XML definition, even though Microsoft says NOT to use that in SharePoint 2010, it was just so easy and I couldn't figure out how to add them otherwise. Now I know how to add them the "right" way, I just don't know if it is worth changing them.)
For the last few days, I have tried to figure out how to actually render these "zones". Remember, I want the users of this application to be able to add new fields dynamically, so I can't put any static field references in these forms. I have read about the Rendering Templates and the ListFieldIterator (and the new Content Iterator), but I can't seem to pull it all together and create an actual solution. The part that is throwing me off is how to query and render three different "sets" of fields at once (since the rendering is going to happen from "top to bottom").
Any help is very much appreciated!
Shayne
If InfoPath it out and you want to stay within the SharePoint infrastructure for forms, then the term you need to search for is DataFormWebPart. You may have heard of DataViewWebPart before, well this is the form equivalent. Just like the DVWP, this does lots and lots of XSLT to make its magic happen.
The trick is can you implement your grid/zone idea within the context of the DFWP's XSL. That I can't tell you but hopefully this is a starting point.
Defiantly Info Path is the solution here are some tutorials:
Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/laurhar/infopath-2010-customize-a-sharepoint-list-form
http://p2p.wrox.com/content/articles/customizing-sharepoint-2010-list-forms-infopath-2010
http://blog.libinuko.com/2010/03/21/sharepoint-2010-howto-start-customize-list-form-neweditview-using-infopath-designer-2010/
if you don't want to use InfoPath I would recomment JavaScript/jQuery you have just to modify (Edit) the page then inject some jQuery code to do what you want. Here are some articles about similar topics:
http://akanoongo.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-hide-fields-in-sharepoint-list.html
http://spground0.blogspot.com/2011/03/sharepoint-2010-custom-list-form-issues.html
http://ghamson.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/using-jquery-to-attach-regular-expression-validation-to-a-sharepoint-list-form-field-sp2010-ps2010-projectserver-in/
The only way you can achieve this type of custom form designing within the SharePoint framework is to apply it through post-rendering techniques using client-side code. And solutions like this tend to add considerably to page-load.
Simply changing the render template is not enough if you want it to be a dynamic and codeless experience for end users to author.
I can think of only one solution which comes close to fitting all criteria. It's "free", can be password protected, and also allows tab groups, rules and many other settings.
Dynamic Forms For SharePoint - http://spjsblog.com/dffs
I have a page layout in a solution I have deployed. The page layout also has a custom content type associated.
I wish to update this page layout and content type, but only for a specific place on the site. The reason is that for important "operation updates" we want the ability to send out SMS's to subscribed users (a built-in feature of Sharepoint for lists) as well as e-mail them.
The way this works is that I wish to add a boolean field that decides whether SMS's are send or not, and a field to put in e-mail adresses you want notified of the message.
My approach so far has been:
Create an event receiver that checks whether the fields are selected / filled out and do the actual sending.
Alter the layout page with the 2 new fields.
Alter the content type with the 2 new fields.
However, I am afraid of the complications for the rest of the site. For now, future uses of the page layout is not a concern, just the existing uses.
I know that updating a content type through XML definitions does not happen automatically, so on that side I'm safe, but how do I keep the layout page "contained" to the specific page in question?
EDIT: How do I show the two fields only when editing the page, not when showing it? Currently, my development site shows the edit form just right, but when I go to show the page it shows "yes" where boolean field is located and any e-mail adresses entered where the e-mail field.
Are you sure the page layout is associated with the content type, and that it's not a page that is associated with the content type?
If you want fields to be automatically added, you can:
Create a custom rendering template
that is used by the New/Edit/Display
forms for your list
(http://weblogs.asp.net/sharadkumar/archive/2008/07/07/how-to-customize-rendering-of-sharepoint-list-form-fields-part-1.aspx)
Create a custom ListFieldIterator (or use the default one)
that will automatically pick up new
fields in your content type
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543922.aspx)
Use code in a DLL to iterate through
your content type's fields and thus
create the necessary controls for
your page all in code. If you use
FieldControls
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd571480.aspx),
it will automatically create the
default template rendering for the
field (i.e., it will display radio
buttons, drop down boxes, etc., as
defined by the fields in the content
type).
In your EDIT, when you say 'when editing the page', I'm assuming you mean 'when viewing the edit page for the list', and not 'when editing the page definition in Sharepoint Designer'.
Assuming that assumption is accurate, you can have the edit page for the list show something completely different from the view page for the list (and from the new page for the list). The pages are, by default, defined completely separately, and are edited completely separately. However, if you are using something (such as the ListFieldIterator) that automatically picks up the list of fields for the content type, you can create a custom Field Control for the fields you want to hide and have the view template for the field control set to display nothing.
I'm trying to figure out a clean way to hide a custom field type from the list of available columns when a user goes to add a new column to a list. I only want this field type to show up when a given feature has been activated (the feature could be site, web, or web app scoped for my purposes).
One theory (haven't had a chance to try implementing this yet) is that I could set all the ShowOnListAuthoringPages (and similar) properties to "false" in the fldtypes_myfield.xml file, then programmatically set this value to true when a given feature is activated.
In XML file, please set
<Field Name="UserCreatable">FALSE</Field>
I't work with me
Are you sure that you are able to see the Publishing Fields Type in the List Create Column Only with Publishing Infrastructure feature activated. I have a MOSS 2007 Server and I Create a Site Collection based on the Team Site (In this Publishing Infrastructure was not active) but still I was able to see the Rich HTML Fields in the Create Site Column Page. I doubt Publishing Infrastructure controls this function. Your option is good one for this, I would say.
Custom Field Types Features are per definition Farm Scoped, since Custom Field Types have to be deployed farm wide.
You cannot "hide" them from users. A field in a list is based on a field type (bool, user etc.). You CAN hide fields, not the base types. So if a user wishes to create an entirely new (site) column, he or she 'll be able to see that field type.
So, it does look like the only way to do really hide the field times is with attributes in the fldtypes_myfield.xml file. There are a series of properties that affect it's visibility described in this MSDN page. In my particular case I ended up just using the UserCreatable property and marking it as false. This pretty much means the field type won't show up in the UI anywhere, so you'll need to make a feature or some kind of list/library template that you deploy that makes use of the type. I guess this is an area we can hope for improvement on in SP 2010 (perhaps along with a scoping mechanism for event receivers so they don't have to be "global" in the farm).
I have defined a new content type (document) for sharepoint. The problem I have is that word automatically comes up with window allowing updating of these properties (for example effective date) that is not validated and I don't want it to show when the user is uploading changes (I fill in some of these fields on the updated method in the eventreceiver class). Is it possible to disable this or at least customize the word behavior?
You can create your own Document Information Panels: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb684925.aspx.
Another alternative might be to set the ShowInNewForm/ShowInEditForm properties of the SPField. But im not sure if Word uses them.