I'm having fun deploying some solutions to my SharePoint 2013 Foundation Edition. I'm checking out some eLearning Solutions, currently the SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK).
The solution comes with 3 Features:
SLK
SLK - Assign Self
SLK - Assign to Site
I guess I need the "SLK" Feature to activate the Solution but if I activate the other two features, I dont see any differences.
Can somebody tell me if I need to activate those two, that the solution works and what they are there for?
Thanks in Advance
-DaveTheMave
To simply answer your question - No, you don't need those 2 additional features, the SLK will work perfectly without them.
I don't have them activated myself.
Here is what the do:
Assign Self:
This feature add the "Assign To Self" menu item to document libraries. This allows the user to immediately assign an item to themselves and run it.
Assign to Site:
This feature add the "Assign To Site" menu item to document libraries. This allows the user to start assigning an item to the current site without having to choose the site to assign to. In effect it jumps straight to the Assignment Properties page for the current site.
As you are new to the SLK, I can highly recommend you this YouTube Tutorial on "how to get started with SLK".
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I'm using advanced sort for a date view web part to set up a 3 part hierarchy. One of the fields is #Meeting_x0020_Name. The # sign returns all attributes for the context node, which gives me something like 3;#2014 2nd Quarter Meeting.
I don't want to display 3;# but only meeting name. How would I do that?
I'm not using code, but only the built in functions in SP.
Use this formula:
substring-after(#Meeting_x0020_Name,'#')
Unfortunately, I don't think this is going to be possible with out-of-the-box web parts in SharePoint 2010. Sorting is a bit limited already in 2010 an there is nothing built into the out-of-the-box web parts to allow you to parse out the meeting name. You may need to consider a custom solution if this is a requirement.
I have a basic knockoutjs project loading data from a SharePoint 2013 list scenario. Getting data and displaying data is easy, the problem that I'm running into is on the edit mode displaying the proper control. Everything should not be a textbox. This means the people picker control to dropdownmenus to calendar controls.
MSFT has some pretty good documentation on using the client side people picker control here"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj713593.aspx
The problem that I have is calling this control inside my viewmodel.
Setting the value of the control doesn't look difficult courtesy of this blog post: http://www.sharepointcolumn.com/sp2013-setting-people-picker-value-in-newform-aspx/
I attempted to looking into computed values, but that doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have a blog post that I skipped over? The closest related post that I can find: http://yetanothersharepointblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/working-with-sharepoint-lookup-columns-in-knockout-js/
Lastly since it seems that I'm the only one doing this, does anyone think that I should not be reinventing the wheel with my forms and should just link each item to the appropriate SharePoint list item in edit or display view? I suppose that would be easier.
From a SharePoint Professional to another, I would highly recommend you to do that.
Just redirect the user to the item edit/display item page an let SharePoint take the leash of how to handle UI form elements.
Because, assume that you implement your custom form, what if the user decides to add one more site column to the list? Will you update your code to support another field?
From my personal experience with the beast I've come to the conclusion that structural implementation over already existent functionality tends to go wrong.
Also, if you have some kind of listing of items custom made and you want to provide editing, try to do something opening a pretty SP.UI.ModalDialog, its elegant and you use the sharepoint to do the work for you.
But it's just an advise.
First off, please bear with me. My question concerns more specifically with custom lists, custom code inside Sharepoint 2007. My experience is more with applications that work outside but access data (Client Object Model) in Sharepoint 2010.
At work I was recently tasked with the following request:
Create a custom announcement board where everyone can create an announcement but only admins and creators can edit it.
The main list page was going to provide a summary of the details, title and an icon that depicts the type of announcement (gif of a baby if birth announcement).
Upon clicking on an announcement, a detailed page containing more detail of the announcement and up to 4 pictures will be displayed.
When entering data the pictures can only be a maximum size.
Here is how I was going to attack this. I was going to create a Custom List that allowed for the addition of Picture columns and all the other columns I required. I would then modify the NewForm, EditForm and DispForm pages to meet our requirements. Picture size would be controlled through Javascript of Jquery on the page. My question to you experts out there is does this sound feasible? Is there a better way?
Thank you for any help
I wouldn't edit the list forms - not in this case at least. One way you could build this would be as a publishing site. You can create custom page layouts to suit the design of the announcements. There would be a bit of work to build it into a polished solution. Depends on how far you want to go.
I'm not sure this is possible, but figured I´d give it a shot. First a few pre-requeistes and environment details:
I´m using SharePoint 2010, SharePoint
Designer 2010, VS 2010
I want to create as little code as
possible, preferably, create it all via UI or Designer
use out of the box components as much
as possible
Here is What I want to do:
Have a custom list with custom columns (easy part)
Create a webpart with an edit interface to select a single item from this list
This same webpart when visible would display the contents of this selected item in a given layout
I know I can do this creating a custom web part and code it all from scratch, I guess my main question is, is there a way to do this with less code and more out of the box components in SP2010. If not, I guess I'm left with lots of C# code.
Any tips, or pointers in this direction will be most welcome. Thanks in advance.
I think what you're looking for is the Data Form Web Part.
Unfortunately, I can't find any good tutorials for 2010, but hopefully the steps should be similar to setting it up in 2007.
Thanks all for the update. In the end, i had to create quite a bit of code to get this to work:
created a web part that enumerates
the content type,
creates a light box that has a picker
then stores the ID of the content in a column
Not the easiest way,but the only way I could get it working. Thanks again!
We don't do any SharePoint development, but I was wondering if there's a way in the web UI to create the ability to copy an existing list item as if it were a template.
I don't think there is any way to do that without at least some code or using SharePoint Designer. In code it is fairly simple to do, but I don't think this is what you are asking for.
You could switch to datasheet view and then use copy & paste, but that isn't really a great solution either.
You could use a SharePoint Designer workflow to create duplicates of an item through the WebUI, there is an example of this here.
We have this capability as part of our product. The product is called Smart List Lite, it is free and it also install a new custom field type called Item Copy Field, I think this is what you need
http://www.infowisesolutions.com