For SharePoint 2013 blogs alert me, I need to develop a custom form with less options as shown here. Another reason to go for custom form is better UI.
Current thoughts:
1. Develop a dynamic form using Bootstrap as user clicks on custom alert button
2. Using JSOM to make an entry in alerts
Question - Is it possible to make entry using JavaScript?
My research till now:
http://sitename/_vti_bin/alerts.asmx doesn't have add/update methods.
It has just view & delete methods.
One of the blog published in 2013 says alert doesn't support Client
object model.
http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2013/09/17/client-object-model-doesnt-support-creating-sharepoint-2013-alerts/
Technet Discussion
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/43d801d4-0e89-4ec5-9d6c-b36f8106fc0d/how-to-create-and-delete-alerts-using-client-object-model-or-even-web-services
Learn about Alerts
Alert web-service
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb249933.aspx
Alert methods
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/websvcalerts.alerts_methods
Calling web-service using JavaScript
https://weblogs.asp.net/jan/calling-the-sharepoint-web-services-with-jquery
Conclusion
From above data, it doesn't seem possible to achieve custom form for alerts using CSOM.
You need to use Custom Action to hide or overwrite the default ribbon button Alert Me.
Create an Application page with you custom logic/forms and use a new Custom Action to Show this forms
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I Want to Show custom welcome screen when a user logs in to Dynamics CRM 2016. I searched and i just got how to disable welcome screen tour but i couldn't find how to show my own custom screen (message or HTML).
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Make a dashboard with a single large HTML web resource.
Place your content inside that HTML web resource.
Set that dashboard as the default for new users. Display a specific dashboard by default for a specific user role
You can also add your welcome page as HTML web resource, add its link to your sitemap and set this sitemap subarea as a default tab for every user.
EDIT (detailed description):
Create custom HTML web resource and publish it in CRM.
Edit your sitemap to contain link to newly created web resource. Sample configuration below:
Sample
In my case my web resource HTML name is "new_welcome.html"
Go to user's personal options and set your new site.map position to be your user's default tab. You may do this with CRM interface (separately for every user :()) or with the tools for personal options mass update (for example with User Settings Utility from XrmToolBox)
Sample results of above mentioned operations:
Solution of you problem is Announcements.
Its easy to configure and easy to circulate the information across all the users.
Follow the below links for more information about Announcement,
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/crm-customer-center/broadcast-announcements-to-an-entire-organization.aspx
I would suggest not to use announcements because of the following reasons:
It is legacy functionality from CRM 2011 version.
It does not support rich text formatting or html components, images, etc.
You still need to create custom web resource to present it to the end user (so from the work effort perspective it also does not make sense)
I am working on SharePoint office 365 (2016), and facing issue while adding custom validation in new item form.
Here scenario is complex, I can't handle by using Validation setting/formula. So I have choose custom JavaScript code.
As validation should be perform on click of Save button and PreSaveAction method successfully called but only in 'Classic Experience' but when user changed to 'New Experience' it won't call because of change of HTML structure of the form.
Does any one have an idea how to fix this issue?
Thanks in advance!
As stated in the documentation here jslink is not yet supported in the new experience. In order to support your customization you'd have to disable it.
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 am trying to implement a Workflow, where the user needs to select a destination document library.
I could figure out two possible ways:
Once the user manually starts the workflow, we would display a webpage where he would select the destination document library.
we would initially display a webpage. where User would select the destination.
After clicking a button the workflow would kick start.
Now for possibility "1":
How to redirect from a worlflow to a webpage. [tried Server.Transfer, but failed].
for Possibility "2":
How to start a workflow on button click.
Please also suggest which among the above 2 possibilities is a better solution.
What you need is a workflow initiation form. Exactly how you implement it and how much functionality can get will depend on the type of workflow you are working on, but you should be able to set up something to choose the destination.
I am assuming that you are talking about writing a workflow using Visual Studio. Personally, I would try creating a SharePoint designer workflow first to see if that meets your requirements.
In SharePoint Designer you can create an initiation form that accepts data from a user when they manually start the workflow. If the out of the box actions don't quite do what you need them to, you can create your own reusable custom workflow actions.
Does anyone know a good way to do this? I need to have simple forms that submit to email without writing a lot of code. These forms will be hosted in content-viewer web parts or similar in MOSS 2007. I'd like to avoid using InfoPath.
You could use a list which would give you the input form.
It depends on a) whether people should be able to see each other's submissions and b) who the e-mail should go to.
You could set an alert (Actions -> Alert Me) to send an e-mail to a person/people when a new item is added to the list.
In Settings -> List Settings -> Advanced Settings, there's the options for which items a user can see/edit. Alerts however cannot be set on lists where users can only see their own items. In this case, I would use a simple workflow to send the e-mail. I've only worked with MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Designer though - I'm not sure about WSS.
You could implement a list as suggested above, and add an SPItemEventReceiver for sending emails when list items are added or changed (the link shows all of the events available to be handled)
With the sharepoint sdk, you can create your own webparts. If you add them to the GAC you can include them on your sharepoint site. You'd of course have to build a webpart for emailing though.
A workflow in Sharepoint Designer should be easiest way to implement it with no need to code.
Here's an article that explains how to do this:
Workflow example: Send a notification message :
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101829081033.aspx
Create a simple HTML form in a text editor with the required text boxes, text areas, select drop downs etc, add a mailto tag and save.
Then add a page viewer web part under Media and content.
Select site actions, Edit page and under the editing tool tab select Format text, HTML Markup edit HTML source and paste your HTML form you created he text editor into the source window and select OK and save.