I need to be able to remove the delete button when today is greater than a particular calculated date.
There are 2 ideas I had and issues with each:
1 - Set a custom field on the record for the particular calculated date. Then use a workflow action of Remove Button where the custom field is <= today. My issue is I am wondering if there is a way to get "today" because I expected the condition to change allowing me to do that. I tried to use a formula and can't find Now() as a valid function listed.
2 - Workflow are truly scripts in the background. That means the Remove Button should be available in API. Therefore, my idea was to do my conditioning in suite script and then call this function. However, this function also does not exist in supported form. Has anyone hacked this to find what the function that is called in Remove Button is?
If we can get either idea to work, or if you have a third I haven't thought of that accomplishes the same task, that would be great.
I figured out my own answer. In case someone else ever needs this (as I didn't see anything like this on stack overflow), here is how to do option #1:
Save the value to a custom field - custbody_block_dlt_date
In a workflow, use the Remove Button function and use a formula condition
The condition is: {custbody_block_dlt_date} < sysdate
"sysdate" is the way you can get "Now()" or "today" in the condition
An alternative could be to create a User Event Script, on the before load function, get the button object then use the .setVisible(visible) method to hide it based on a date criteria, you may also want to set other restrictions based on roles that allow certain individuals to still be able to delete the record, like high positioned accountants. That avoids creating unnecessary fields on your records, while still providing the functionality that you desire. This could easily be done in < 4 lines of JavaScript.
See nlobjButton for examples.
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I need to add some information to an Excel cell or the same information to several selected Excel cells and that information should not be visible. How is this possible? I know I could add something to the properties of the whole worksheet, using the addresses (e.g. "Sheet1!A1") of the cells, but then when the table changes, the information is no more correct. I also thought I could use addFromSelectionAsync, but did not manage to use it, I think addFromSelectionAsync is not the right tool. I have seen that other AddIns are producing something like the follwoing (in different files in the saved Excel document): [UPDATE: this is not the way to go, see my second comment below]
<x15:webExtensions xmlns:xm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2006/main">
<x15:webExtension appRef="{12345678-...}">
<xm:f>Sheet1!$A$1</xm:f>
</x15:webExtension>
<x15:webExtension appRef="{ABCABCAB-...}">
<xm:f>Sheet1!$A$2</xm:f>
</x15:webExtension
</x15:webExtensions>
<we:bindings>
<we:binding id="BINDING-ID-1" type="text" appref="{12345678-...}"/>
<we:binding id="BINDING-ID-2" type="text" appref="{ABCABCAB-...}"/>
</we:bindings>
and then use <we:properties> (I think) to know which binding-IDs are used. Is this the way to go, will the values in <xm:f> automatically be updated, and how do I do this in code?
Thanks in advance.
The first part was already resolved see my old comments above:
addFromPromptAsync, using the information I want to save as the ID, adds the <x15:webExtension> and the according <we:binding>.
I am now using a UUID as the value in addFromPromptAsync, and setting the actual value via Office.context.document.settings.set with key = the UUID and value = the actual value.
It was then my question:
given a cell (i.e. the accordings range) I cannot get the IDs of the according bindings
For this second part of the problem, I added event handlers via binding.addHandlerAsync for the relevant Binding-IDs. Those event handler can read the binding ID from the event data.
So my problem is resolved, since I only need the Binding ID when the according cell is selected.
There is still the problem that I need to unset the binding ID that I save in a variable when another cell without that data is selected, I am using a timestamp for this, >200ms after the last binding selection event, selecting another cell deletes the info. Cf. my question Can I set an order for the Event Handlers in Office.JS? for that last point.
I can't figure out how to do a very simple update of a column value in Power Automate in SharePoint online. I've seen examples of how to update an item on another list, but nothing that updates a value on the same item that was just added and triggered the workflow. Can anybody give me an example and maybe a very brief explanation?
I want to multiply the values of two columns and add it to a third column on the same item which will be blank. I used the formula to update the column I want using values from other columns. =[Dollar Amount]*[% Chance] but it says invalid syntax. There seems to be nothing intuitive in this new power automation and it's a horrible failure compared to how easy it used to be. MS is always making these mistakes.
The first method, you could use a calculated column.
=[% Chance]*[Dollar Amount]
Second method，use Flow.
Test result:
It's Power Automate, not power automation. Details matter.
First, try to set the column value when you create the item. Then you won't have to edit it. If you already know the values for [Dollar amount] and [% Chance] (Chance, really? Or Change?), then you can use these to generate the value before you create the item. You can do that in a variable or with a Compose action. Then create the item and refer to the variable or the Output of the compose action.
If this is not an option, you can use the Edit Item action and get the ID for the item from the action above that you used to create the item.
You say "MS is always making these mistakes." - It's more likely that the problem is a mismatch of data types, e.g. using text fields in calculations, or typos, or wrong syntax. That's not a mistake made by MS. Again, details matter.
Edit after comments: If the workflow is triggered by an item getting created, then you can use an Edit Item action and refer to the ID from the trigger item.
Is there a way to get SSRS to expand the ultimate group of values by default upon initial execution, regardless of values?
My report looks like this:
Current scenario
What I want to achieve:
Ideal Scenario
I've searched for an answer without any success, I can't even find a similar question! Most require the current date values which can be done through the visibility settings and setting an expression to hide when not current date (or if not date then a specific value) - I get that. That's not what i'm asking, I simply want the ultimate values to be displayed when the report is initially rendered.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I Want to have only unique values in a SharePoin List. To achieve this I can use 'ItemAdding' event handler as mentioned in the below link.
http://weblogs.asp.net/vikram/archive/2008/12/24/sharepoint-using-event-handler-to-make-a-column-unique.aspx
Now I have a Doubt: Suppose that two user tries to add list Item in the list with the same column value(which requires unique value) at the same Time. will ItemAdding event would be fired at the same time for both call? If so then there is a possibility that two items having same value in the column. Please confirm.
I think, this method allows you only to have semi-unique values in the column. That is, if everything is normal, it will be unique. However, you cannot compare the properties of two items being added simultaneously (and yes, it may happen, since IIS web server is multi-threaded). Hence you might have duplicate values as a result.
A workaround - implement a "ItemAdded" event handler, too and delete a newly added item, if it has that property the same as some other existing item. This will, of course, happen very rarely.
If you have enough concurrent users that this is likely to be a problem, SharePoint probably isn't the right tool for the job. If the value is created by the user, it is extremely unlikely that two users will be adding the same value at the same time. If it is automatically generated, you probably should be using something based on ID, which is known to be unique.
If you are worried about the possibility of duplicates anyway, just make sure that the field can be edited if you do end up with duplicates causing problems.
I have a calculated column in a custom SharePoint 2007 list, with the following formula:
=CONCATENATE("IR-",[ID],"-",LEFT(UPPER([Title]),25))
If an item is created in the list, everything is fine, however, when an item is updated the [ID] column is no longer in the calculated column for that item.
So, on creation: "IR-40-TheTitleIsHere", but after edit, it is, "IR--TheTitleIsHere".
Anyone have some insight on why this would be happening?
I confirm the behavior mentioned above. Any Add/Edit will wipe out the [ID] portion. If you edit the column in the list and update the formula, it will update ALL list items to be correct (until you do an edit on the item).
I found this post that mentions the same problem.
Sounds like the only solution would be to make a simple workflow using SharePoint Designer that would update a text field in your list.
I had an issue similar a while back. Through other blogs and experts, I discovered that the [ID] column should not be used in a calculated column because it wreaks havoc and causes many errors. Sorry - remove the ID column and you should be fine.
This question is a little old, but I had the same issue and found a solution for it. It is a pretty specific fix and won't help everyone -- it involves using javascript in a content editor web part to update the calculated field.
This site -- http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/2008/09/01/using-calculated-columns-to-write-html/ -- gives an example of how to use javascript in the same manner that I used it.. the important block of code is the first while loop. The point is to grab the out of box ID column from the list and update whatever calculated field needs the ID.
In my case I had a URL in a calculated field that required the ID as a parameter.. of course that wouldn't work normally because you can't put the ID in a calculated field. What I did was I put "?ID=null" in the ID parameter of my calculated field's url, I then replaced that with the ID that was retrieved using javascript.. so whenever the page is loaded, the js kicks off and updates all of the URLs to have the correct ID.
I know this is very old but I couldn't find a newer version of the question anywhere else and the answer above from ferr solved the problem for me but isn't very clear so I thought I'd update it.
This assumes that you want to use the ID in the output HTML (for example within a link), I think this is fairly common.
Using the javascript from the pathtosharepoint link I added in the following to get the id with an if statement for safety:
if (HTMLregexp.test(CellContent)) { //original pathtosharepoint line
if (NodeSet[i].parentNode.getAttribute("iid")){
var SPID = NodeSet[i].parentNode.getAttribute("iid").split(",")[1];
CellContent = CellContent.replace("SPIDReplace", SPID)
}
NodeSet[i].innerHTML = CellContent; //original pathtosharepoint line
This is put in the while loop of the latest pathtosharepoint fix at time of writing. This works for me on SharePoint 2010.
Note: Include the string "SPIDReplace" in your calculated column to get it replaced by the item ID.
pathtosharepoint page: http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com/category/calculated-columns/
pathtosharepoint code: http://pathtosharepoint.com/Downloads