Background:
I am in the process of designing an application that will allow items to be dragged to it and will invoke some long running processes on them. The items will normally be dragged in from the filesystem and from Outlook. My concern is with the latter.
How can I hook into Outlook to find out if a message (or several) has been dragged out of it and on to my application and what the message ID is/are?
I understand that the Outlook object model does not have such drag/drop events and one solution is to listen to the Windows messages - this is not feasible in the team, as our combined Interop knowledge is not great.
We will be using C# 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 for developing this application.
Even this is an old question, there is actually a way. It's undocumented, but I was able to reverse engineer this at least half way. I'm not sure though if the "Selection"-method is still cleaner, but I prefer to read the data directly.
A sample and the docs for this can be found here:
https://github.com/yasoonOfficial/outlook-dndprotocol
You cannot get access to the MailItem.EntryID directly from Outlook via the generic IDataObject drag-n-drop interface. If you just want to access the MSG data, then you can use this CodeProject example. Once an MSG is copied to disk (or clipboard, drag-n-dropped, etc.), it loses any reference to an EntryID.
The only way I know of to get access to the EntryID is by using VSTO and using the ActiveExplorer().Selection to see which items are selected at the time of the drop action. Here is an example of accessing the Body of a selected message during a drag-n-drop command. You should be able to find numerous examples once you see the general pattern being used.
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If I have a list containing NAME and EMAIL of approximately 10 rows, is there a workflow work-around allowing me to send an email to all recipients of the “selected view” of the list? The scenario involves simply browsing the list, opening a link (or clicking a button) that launches a new message in Outlook. If the above is possible, can I customize the (a) message body with a stored template, (b) carbon copy recipients and (c) message subject? Have any workarounds to accomplish this? Trying to do so without any extensions to SP with Visual Studio. Any links, tips, tricks to accomplishing this?
I intentionally created an SP site with external sharing enabled because I wanted any child sites beneath it to be externally accessible. I want to do so, however, without external users accessing the parent. Is this possible?
I’m exploring opportunity #2 above because I’d like teachers to collect documents from a “shared” read-only folder yet be permitted to create a personal (i.e. team) folder that is writable. In doing so, I’d like the modified document in their personal folder to be (a) numerically rated and (b) freely tagged with meta attributes. Thinking here is that team members can search for docs that are associated with the freely created meta data. Question is, is there a way to propagate all the meta data generated so that users can select/enter it in their subsequent searches?
Thanks
I'll only answer to your 1 (because I don't understand the 2, and the 3 seems too complex to help on a forum like that).
A workflow looks at only one row/item, so you cannot do what you want in that way. At my work I don't have access to the backend programming (C#) so I'm doing everything with JavaScript. In your case you could use JavaScript in this scenario :
The user goes to a page and click on a button
A JavaScript code is triggered and gets all the data from the list
The JavaScript code creates a new item into a special list with the collected data
There is a workflow tied to this special list that sends an email based on the different fields
The last step of the workflow is to delete the item from the special list
In this scenario you can use templates for the body, and do all the things you want.
To use JavaScript with Sharepoint you can look at my framework that is called SharepointPlus or at the popular SPServices.
I am trying to set up a MySite allowing individuals to create and modify multiple projects, each which will contain a partial copy of a master Document Library. I have already created the Library and uploaded the documents, and I have a page on which I have been experimenting with how to do this.
I need to be able to display a list of the documents in the document library, allow the user to select which ones they want, and then when they click on a button, I need to initialize the database with some information about that prjoect, some information about each of the files, and the documents need to be copied to a new location, so that the user can pull them up and edit and save the changes that are specific to the one project. Also we will need to be able to be able to add/remove them through a similar interface after the project has already been created, if possible.
And, unfortunately, anything at all that uses code has been restricted; so, we can't use anything that will require anything to be installed in the GAC, and I can't even use any server-side scripts within the ASPX file. It seems like almost everything I find when I search for "Sharepoint 2007 clone Master Document Library" or the like involves using code.
I have been playing around with things in SharePoint designer for creating the UI, and I figured out how to get a list of the documents to show, although I'm having a hard time duplicating it. It created a <WebPartPages:DataFormWebPart> with a <SharePoint:SPDataSource> in it. However, when I've tried to pull over things like a Data View CheckBoxList to the document list, either it just won't let me drop it (this includes anywhere on the form, not just in the document list), or, as expected actually, it doesn't actually bind to each line of the list. It's not entirely clear to me what to do to create this.
I do get (more or less) that you can bind the controls via the .xslt in the form, but I'm figuring it's got to be simpler than writing them by hand since the designer looks so much like the Visual Studio designer. I am having a very hard time figuring out what exactly to do to get any of the controls to work, though; most of them have the same issue as the CheckBoxList and won't even drop on the form. I'm assuming there's a panel of some type, or some other thing, that I need to add to the form first, but this is so different from what I'm used to that I'm having a hard time even getting my bearings.
So, can someone point me in the right direction here? I'm going to need to be able to create the projects, select the documents, copy them over with some other information into a new project, including creating some items in the database. I have been developing software for a long time, on many different platforms with many different languages, although lately it's mainly been WinForms, with a fair bit of .aspx stuff (but nothing too fancy), and it's never been this hard. I figure there's just something I'm not getting about the model here; like, how do you tell the form you want to use x/y/z control connected to particular datasource? How do you tell sharepoint to create a new location for the files? How can you submit the selected files once you have them to Sharepoint and tell them where to copy to?
Any help would be so appreciated I have been tearing my hair out for days. :)
You might have had a change with SharePoint 2010, as there is a javascript/jQuery programming model, but without that you don't have a realistic of coding what you will need. You may get lucky and be able to call the SharePoint web services using jQuery, but it is going to be a lot of work to get around a "no code" requirement.
Okay, well, I was finally able to get this mostly working, although there are still some issues with displaying the data once I get it back; I will try to update this question once I have a better answer for that.
There's a cool library called SPServices which combines with JQuery to give an interface to the web services for SharePoint 2007. It seems to more or less provide an interface to anything that you need to do to use the web services without a lot of extra work on your part.
For example, to query a document library, I set up a function something like this in a helper class (based upon the examples from the SPServices documentation).
ServiceClass.prototype.getSpecialDocLib = function (onComplete) {
var sc = this;
$().SPServices({
operation: "GetListItems",
async: false,
listName: "Special Document Library",
CAMLViewFields: "<ViewFields><FieldRef Name='Title' /></ViewFields>",
completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
var outTable = new DocTable();
$(xData.responseXML).find("[nodeName='z:row']").each(function () {
var i;
var outRow = new DocTableRow();
for (i = 0; i < this.attributes.length; ++i) {
outRow.addField(this.attributes[i].localName, this.attributes[i].value);
};
outTable.addRow(outRow);
});
sc.onDocumentListComplete(xData, Status);
if (onComplete != null)
onComplete(resultTable);
}
});
};
For copying a document library from one place to another, I believe you can use Lists.AddList to create it, (not specifically documented in SPServices but is based upon this Web Service call) either from scratch or a template, and I believe you can use the SPServices Copy.CopyIntoItemsLocal method.
Anyway, I seem to be making progress with this so far; I will update and accept this answer once I have a little more experience and time to make sure everything works, but so far I seem to be making progress toward the "no code" goal.
HI all,
I am creating a timesheep app and I have five colums that can contain hours worked. When the user enters a new form how do I check to see if at least one of the columns contains data. I must admit I am not a developer just a Sharepoint/Sharepoint designer hack so be nice. Thanks
Glenn Thibeault
The only bullet-proof way would be to create a SharePoint event receiver using C# (lots of examples on the web).
I'm not really sure how you could accomplish this with SPD.
If you don't want to write any C# code, that really only leaves JavaScript. It will still take development work (this is a programming site after all). You could probably take advantage of SPUtility.js (full disclosure, this is a library I maintain).
The basic steps would be:
Edit your NewForm.aspx and add a Content Editor web part
Inside the Content Editor web part, write your JavaScript:
Attach a new onClick handler to the NewForm.aspx's "OK" buttons
Use SPUtility's GetValue method to get the value of your 5 fields, validate one has a value, and display a message if invalid
I inherited an very old application that I am in the process of updating it (I know, we should have rewrote it in VS 2008, but we purchased a company, which is how I was stuck with the relic). Using UpdateData(TRUE) to retrieve the changes made in the dialog controls, nothing is being updated. I have an edit control, with an integer variable, and an edit control with a string variable, assigned using the class wizard. Upon pressing the OK button, the UpdateData(TRUE) is executed to retrieve the new values from the disalog.
I seem to remember having a similar problem back when VS C++ 6.0 first came out, but have not used it since VS 2003 and C# became prevalent.
Thanks for any help in advance!
Bill
Check the DoDataExchange() method. It should have the logic for writing data to or reading it from the controls. If the programmers used the default implementastion, then there will be a DDX_... macro for each control that is being read/written. Just look at any other MFC dialogs (in your code or google) to see how the DDX commands should be written if they are missing.
Alternatively, if it's only 1 or 2 values you can easily just get the control and read it directly if you don't mind doing validation etc yourself. Get the ID of the control from the form designer and use something along the lines of:
CEditWnd *pWnd = GetDlgItem(ID_THECONTROL);
CString newValue = pWnd->GetWindowText();
...
You'll need to look at the content of the DoDataExchange method and see what it is doing. There is not sufficient information here to tell what could be going wrong other than that.
We had a need for a document management solution and were hoping SharePoint 2007 would satisfy our needs. We felt our needs were relatively simple. We needed to manage versioning, have searching capabilities, and having an approval workflow.
SharePoint handled these three aspects great out of the box.
However, we also require that the footer on the Office 2007 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) documents reflect the document version, last person to modify, and last modification date. These things can be done with office automation, but we have yet to find a complete solution.
We first tried to do it on the checking-in and checked-in events and followed this path for a while, however, the complication we ran into was after we made the changes to the document we had to no way of preventing the save from updating the version number. This resulted in something similar to this:
Document checked-in – the document version should be v0.1 however it is v0.2 because we save the document after the footer is replaced. If we look in the document history we there are 2 separate versions v0.1 does not have the footer v0.2 has the footer but it says v0.1 as that is the version the document was when it was replaced.
This is an unacceptable solution for us as we want the process to be completely handled on the user side so they would have full control to revert back to a version where the footer would be incorrect and not contain the correct data. When we attempted to create a custom approval/check-in workflow we found that the same problem was present. The footer is necessary so that hard-copies can be traced back to their electronic counterpart.
Another solution that was proposed to us was to build plugins for office that would handle the replacement of the footer. This is inadequate for our needs as it requires a client side deployment of our plugins which is undesirable by our clients. What we are looking for is a clean solution to this problem.
Here is a blog post which seem to be exactly the solution of your problem.
Basically they create a custom field in the document library and use event receivers to keep the current version of the document in this field.
The "trick" is that on the client side this custom field shows up as a property of the document the value of which you can easily embed into the document's contents.
I'm not sure why changing the field won't increase the version of the document, but I guess it is because you're only changing metadata, not the actual document.
They do use a little VBA script which runs on the client side, but it doesn't require any client side deployment as it is downloaded with the document. However I'm not sure if any security settings changes on the client side may be needed to allow the script to run.
Does this information need to be in the footer? A lot of the information is available within the Office 2007 application. If you click on the round button in the upper left, and select "Server", you can view the version history, a lot of the other properties are available by clicking the round button and opening the "Prepare" menu, and selecting Properties.
If this information must be displayed in the document footer I would investigate creating a custom Information Management Policy. This may be a good place to start.