I have a requirement to display the currently logged in user on a newItem list form the user is filling out- I have a people picker control which I know I can convert to the Rich Text format to display the current user.
However, I am having trouble getting the current user. I took a look at how SP did it, but found that they also had "Welcome " embedded into their code, so I cannot just re-use it.
Then I found this resource that showed me how to get the logged on user from the server variable. But I have no idea to display it on the form, so I don't even know if it got what I was actually looking for!
While I was poking around the code for the page, I found that I'd already had the following parameter
<ParameterBinding Name="UserID" Location="CAMLVariable" DefaultValue="CurrentUserName"/>
<xsl:param name="UserID" />
which looked like it might do the trick, but again.... I can't figure out how to display the value of it on the webpart form- so I don't even know.
How can I display the value of a parameter on webpart page so that I can verify that it is what I am looking for?
Thanks!
You can use <xsl:value-of select="$UserID" /> to display current user name.
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I have a field where a customer number is required. When the user leaves the field in the onblur event I need to run some code, in this case check if the given number is already in use. The problem is the codes needs some time to complete. For this short period the user should not be able to make any input. Also I'd like to display a gif.
There is a genius snippet on XSnippets called "Standby Dialog" (https://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=standby-dialog-custom-control)
If you implement this on your page (preferably as custom control) you will get an overlay everytime a partial refresh happens. If you init a partial refresh when the user blurs the field you will get what you want.
I need to brand the sharepoint search box to allow scopes. When using the default SearchBoxScriptWebPart, the scopes do show as required. However I need the scopes to show as text besides the dropdown arrow (the default SearchBoxScriptWebPart only shows an arrow which when clicked shows the dropdown with all the scopes). Then I tried using the SearchBoxEx which seems to be perfect for the job. However for some reason it is not loading the scopes I specified in the Site Settings > Search Settings.
Any ideas what I may be doing wrong for the SearchBoxEx?
This is the code I am using in the masterpage:
<SPSWC:SearchBoxEx id="SearchBox" runat="server" GoImageUrl="/_layouts/images/gosearch.gif" GoImageUrlRTL="/_layouts/images/gosearch.gif" DropDownMode="ShowDD_NoContextual" QueryPromptString="Start typing here" UseSiteDefaults="true" />
Note that I tried every possible combination of DropDownMode but still to no avail.
Thanks
I have successfully created a feature in sharepoint that modifies the existing edit dialog and adds a custom button to it like this.
and I am aware that I can pass back data when the user clicks the custom button like this.
<CommandUIHandlers>
<CommandUIHandler Command="ActivateUser" CommandAction="/_layouts/MyFeature/MakeUserActive.aspx?ListID={ListId}&ItemID={ItemId}&ItemUrl={ItemUrl}&ListUrlDir={ListUrlDir}" />
</CommandUIHandlers>
As detailed here
I can now handle the list item and perform my required actions on it BUT given that this button has been added in the modify context (IE: Inside the sharepoint edit item dialog) what if you want to save changes to the data itself?
To me it seems like using your custom button would always mean losing any changes the user has made to the data. Is there a way around this?
Good question!
You actually already linked to the solution: Right now you are simply redirecting the user by using a URL as your CommandAction: CommandAction="/_layouts/MyFeature/MakeUserActive.aspx?ListID={ListId}&ItemID={ItemId}&ItemUrl={ItemUrl}&ListUrlDir={ListUrlDir}"
This if course redirects the user to another page without saving the current entry. What you want to do is use Javascript as linked in the MSDN article:
CommandAction="javascript:alert('here be dragons');"
You can either work the the SharePoint Javascript object model here and use something like SP.ListOperation.Selection.getSelectedItems(); or you could use complete custom code.
From your aspx page name I can see you want to "make a use active" (btw: wouldn't "ActivateUser.aspx" be nicer?). If this simply means setting a property in another list you could do that with the SharePoint OM, if it is some custom stuff you would need a webservice which you can call from JavaScript and "activate the user" like that. You can of course always access the current form and pass on the values the user entered. Or you could create a custom save button which does some stuff (activate user) before saving.
Lastly: You can also have postbacks in your custom button where you could do anything you'd like.
I am trying to implement a simple trick which would hide span/label inside textbox when user starts entering text in respective textbox, and show it, on blur if textbox is empty.
(It is implemented on user sign in form)
This thing is working okay so far and here is the demo
But it fails in following scenario:
1) If user enters username, previously entered username list (the form data stored by browser when auto-complete is turned off) appears. And if user selects username with mouse-click from the list, password field gets auto-populated. Now though password field has value in it, it won't hide the span.
(keydown/focus/click/change event over textbox not helping in this case)
2) When the username/password is wrong, page reloads, username textbox has last entered value. But still the span over it is being displayed.
(I tried to check if username textbox is empty on pageload. It didn't work)
Can anyone help me fix these things?
Thanks in advance... :)
What you need i s a placholder. Placeholder have been standardized by html5
and can be easily implemented via various jquery plugin (here is one).
i suggest you use those solutions, as they are standards. the ideal solution is to use html5 and than fallback to javascript for older browsers.
Look ath this form where i implemented placholders: http://www.consiglio.regione.lombardia.it/web/crl/BancheDati/atti_si
When you insert a letter in an input field, the text disappears. It's done with the help of that plugin.
It seems that you are attempting to reinvent the wheel here. Check this already answered question on what appears to be the same subject:
how do I make an html text box show a hint when empty
Usability-wise, I don't think it would be terrible to hide the watermarks of both inputs regardless of which on was clicked/keydowned etc. Now this next option is controversial, so you have been warned...
<input name="first_name" type="text" autocomplete="off">
Just wanted to make sure you were aware of that - most often used to prevent credit card fields from autocompleting. Hope something in here this helps.
On my home page, I want a simple webpart that allow users to quickly fill an entry in a list.
The list have, let's say, three fields : title (text), body (rich text), category (lookup).
I don't want to use the standard DataFormWebPart because I have a bit of code-behind that also fill some technical hidden fields of my list (actually, I don't exclude the DataFormWebPart, but I didn't find how to use it with code behind).
So I started to implement a custom webpart. Because I don't want to have to handle manually each field input, I started to use the FormField control, which automatically choose the rendering control, and provide a Value property with the correct format :
<SharePoint:FormField runat="server" id="fldTitle" FieldName="Title" />
This code is not sufficient, I have to specified the listid :
<SharePoint:FormField runat="server" id="fldTitle" FieldName="Title" ListId="{title list guid}" />
This is working quite correctly. I can in code access the fldTitle.Value to retrieve the user input.
BUT I have to include the webpart in a properly packaged and deployed feature, that can be activated. The webpart will always target the same list, but as the list is also instanciated in the feature (ListInstance element), I can't know the Guid in advance.
I've tried using several technics to set the list ID on the fly, but without success.
I've also "reflectored" the SP dlls to notice FormComponent class are using a "Context" that is set by ListFormWebPart.
Finally, my questions are :
is it the correct way to create a custom input webpart on the home page (not a list custom form) ?
how can I keep the behavior of the FormField (choose the right control and handle the input and its conversion to the storage format) ?
Will I have to create a custom ListFormWebPart ?
May I play with ControlTemplates ?
thanks in advance for the help... I'm struggling with this simple case for days now...
I think that customizing form templates is the easiest way to customize list forms. Since custom form templates are implemented as user controls you can add whatever code you want.
See the following article:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/SharePointListForms.aspx