I am very new to Kentico. I have been saddled with a project of recreating a spreadsheet as part of a Kentico built website. I need to accept input from a form, and do calculations and then spit the results back on the screen for the end-user. Again...I am very new to Kentico. So I have been trying to use a custom table, and a custom-table-form. I have it saving an initial record to the custom table, but it overwrites it each time. What would be a proper way of taking in an end-users values from a form and being able to preform basic CRUD tasks with that data (and then display it back on the page for the user to see)?
Thanks in advance!
#Tom,
Please try with Custom Table Input Edit web part from Kentico Marketplace.
You can always use the rest service
you can have table url like ~/rest/customtableitem.customtable.sampletable?format=json
and then do all CRUD operations.
The other way if you are new (my suggestion) is to start with examples (install corporate site example locally if you don't have it ). Check the /Examples/Web-parts/Custom-tables/ section it has all the example how to deal with a custom table. For editing you can use combination: custom table you should use custom table repeater, object management buttons and custom table form. Install the the example (even with the trial version)
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I'm trying to embed multiple items into a (new version) google site that take a parameter from another embed.
Is there any way to do this in new (not classic) google sites?
For more background:
We have one Tableau workbook that includes parameters the user can select. These selected parameters drive a handful of other unrelated Tableau workbooks and SSRS reports, all of which need to be on the same page.
It doesn't matter whether the user can select their parameters on the first page and then get driven to a second page with all the additional workbooks or whether the workbooks are all on the same page.
New Google Sites insert content from other site feature requires a URL but at this time there is no way to take a parameter from another inserted content.
As usual there is no official documentation on the official help about not available features. The related help article is Add text, images, & other content.
I have a request from the customer that they want every time they create a subsite (publishing site) .We have to add a custom column to OOTB Documents list.
I have done some researching the way to add the custom column to
Documents list in onet.xml but have no luck .
Then i think about the work around solution that i create a
ScriptBlock custom action that will call javascript function which
will add the custom column to document list , then i will put this
custom action to a feature ,and finally i will reference that feature
in onet.xml.
It run well but the javascript function call every time i refresh the page. I just want it run one time when i active the feature.
Does anyone have any suggestion ? I use sandbox solution and Sharepoint Online .Sorry for my bad English
I don't think a custom action is the right way to do this, Custom actions generally need some sort of user interaction.
Get CKS dev tools in Visual studio
Create a new SharePoint solution
Add a new web template(CKS Dev) to your solution from the Add new item menu in VS
Create an additional feature (web) with a list template (Your documents Library and add your column)
Update the Web templates onet file
Also sometimes it's better to put up what your having issues with as you have said you have had no luck with the above, What is the issue you are having, Post some code up etc rather than going down the route of changing the way you implement the solution
Many Thanks
Truez
I have to work on a Drupal project to create user profile for some specific users on the website with some special fields. They can be a different role. Main idea is to search. User profile must be searchable with provided criteria.
I have two options,
1- Using node with (content_profile)
2. Create my own form and tables.
One my question is, is it possible to create a separate search machanism for custom created database? and is there a way to cache search result? or should I use node based? please advice some one with idea on this..
Thanks.
Yes it is possible to create a search mechanism using views and exposing the custom table to views via the api (there is a blog post here: http://blog.menhir.be/2008/10/22/expose-database-fields-to-views-in-a-custom-drupal-module/ and there is more info using the advanced help module (http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help) (install and look through the views documetation), then you could also use the Views caching.
A custom table and fields would be my preferred method if you have a lot of users as the profile tables can get pretty big (this may not be an issue for you), or you could use the content profile module http://drupal.org/project/content_profile and possibly save yourself some work!
If you wanted to perform a complete custom search not using views you'd probably need to implement that and the caching yourself if you went the custom field/table route, but you'd gain a lot of flexibility.
I have a list in sharepoint which maintains particular month OnCall list,and we are maintaining employee directory in sql server. My requirement is to get complete data from sql server and show it in sharepoint and compare with sharepoint list and show small icon for the employees who are On Call for that particular Month. Can anyone please suggest me the waus of implementing this.
Thanks in advance.
Update: I have finished the part where I have to connect to the sqlserver database and get the employees information. For this we are using 3rd party web part to connect to the sql server and pull the data from the table. Now I have to show some kind of image on the employee name to show that he is on-call for that week. We are going to cretae custom list for maintaing the list of people who are on-Call. Can anyone please advise me on how to accomplish this.
Write a custom webpart which will pull the data from the list using sharepoint object model and SQL server using ADO.NET and do the said comparison.
If you were looking for out of the box, I am afraid there i too little information given here to analyze if its feasible out of the box or not.
If you have the SharePoint Enterprise version, you can look at using the Business Data Catalog. This will let you bind columns to external data sources. This might provide you with the functionality you're looking for.
If you do not have the Enterprise features, do you have access to deploy WSP packages and custom code?
You will have to write your own data access to your external data source. Your options would be to have a job that pulls data from the external data source and populates SharePoint list(s) or create a custom view that pulls the external data on-demand.
You'll have to come up with synchronization strategies. Meaning, is the data in the external SQL data source static, reference information that does not need to be updated depending on what a user does in SharePoint? This seems to be the case based on your question. If you do need to update the external data source, you'll have to hook into the on save event (so probably a custom event handler that listens for ItemAdding) to update the data, validate, and optionally cancel the operation with an error message.
If you can't deploy WSP packages / DLLs, you could take a look at the jQuery SharePoint library. This will let you interact with lists using jQuery. If you also write a WCF or Web Service wrapper around the data you need access to from your external data source that is accessible from the SharePoint environment, you can use hack together a solution.
To accomplish this you'd need to place a Content Editor Web Part on the page you need custom data access. In there you will write the code to reference the jQuery javascript library and jQuery SharePoint library. The code will have to make the calls to your external data service and make any updates you need.
This is the least reliable method to accomplish what you want since it's entirely page-based and can be broken by simply disabling script or someone editing the CEWP or removing it altogether.
If you don't have access to place a CEWP or any of the other solutions, then you have no options at all.
it relatively easy now to pull all the data using the third party webpart and saving it into a custom list. I would recommend you not only creating custom list but also creating the content types for this list. take a look at SharPoint MVP's post about creating a Custom List with Content Types
I've built a web part for Sharepoint that retrieves data from an external service. I'd like to display the items in a way that's UI-compatible with Sharepoint (fits in with its surroundings.)
I'm aware of the "DataFormWebPart" but was unable to get one working properly. It requires a valid DataSource and I was unable to build one from the results of a web service call... Part of the problem is that my web service wrappers don't expose the XML return info, rather I have a bunch of deserialized objects. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to turn actual objects into a datasource, or populate a "generic" datasource from object data.
I could use an SPGridView to get the same UI, but the grid control doesn't have much in the way of smarts -and- it forces every field into its own column. I'd prefer to render each list item as a single cell with complex rendering (for instance the way that StackOverflow shows its lists of questions.) I'd also like to get as much of the Sharepoint-standard UI as possible, such as the sorting, filtering, and paging controls.
So, first: Has anyone here written a Sharepoint control that does this, and if so do you have sample code to share? If not: am I overlooking some useful control, whether MS-supplied or available in an external library?
Thanks!
Steve
Sharepoint: Best way to display lists
of non-Sharepoint content with
“compatible” UI?
Take a look at the built in sharepoint web controls:
Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls Namespace
It contains all the controls used in sharepoint. I'd tell you more, but the documentation is very thorough.
Problem with SharePoint is that there are a bunch of different ways to do this. If your data is not changing too often and is not overly large it may be worth considering entering it into a list for display.
If you have the Enterprise licence it may be worth getting your data into the BDC and using it there.
you may have to convert the objects into xml or use the serialised objects with the XML webpart for display. This still has the issue of custom rendering using XSLT.
Here's a great article that explains how to configure BDC connections to web services using the BDC Definition Editor:
Creating a Web Service Connection by Using the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb737887.aspx
The best way to do this IMO is to make a Web Part. As a Web Part the UI will be automatically rendered to be the same as the theme the site is using (unless you override it) and it will be able to be placed anywhere by anyone with admin privileges.
Tutorial on making a Web Part
Tutorial on packaging and deploying a Web Part
Example Web Part Source Code
You could create a custom web part and use an SPGridView. You say you don't like it, because it forces every field into its own column, but that's not true. You can create a template (ITemplate) for every column and fully customize what's shown inside it, just like you would using a normal ASP.Net GridView. Using this approach I've added the little "New" images right next to a list item's Title, just like SharePoint does itself.