I have a DVWP in Sharepoint Designer displaying list of answers from a quiz (list items). This is a joined subview to load the corresponding question from another list into the answer row.
From each answer row, how do I go about passing its corresponding rowId to a secondary joined subview? I can't seem to access the rowId of the parent from within the child.
Basically I'm attempting to make the child in each row load a list of possible answers to the parent question.
Any suggestions would be great!
You should be able to do this using web part connections. If you created custom data views, you would need to hook up the connections interface (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff597538.aspx). Note that web part connections only work on web part pages - they don't work on wiki pages.
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I need to implement a solution for a client SharePoint Office 365 site. I know you can do things with 3 parts solutions or Jquery but I'm trying to keep it OOTB as possible. Here is a simplistic view of the scenario.
There is a list called Parent. It has one field Title.
There is a second list called Child. It has one field Title and another Parent
Parent is the type Lookup and points to the Title field of the Parent list.
The SharePoint form is for the Parent List so the main connection points there.
I simply want to create a data connection to the child list and have the Edit / View pages populate that a listbox with the ID(Value) and Title(Display) from the corresponding match in the Parent list.
I've tried several ways but I lack the experience to probably describe what I've tried (Using Rules and the lists.asmx as well as a retrieve data connection to child and filtering it upon load).
Thank you in advance, I really need to get this implemented.
As per your query, I understand you want to open the form on the click of the list item with the view & edit.
for that you have to create the rules with the proper actions like if I click on the parent A then form open but after the form open we have to fetch the ID & title again by the create the connection who dynamically operate as per the call of action.if you need more details please mention comment on this / If I understand wrong the please brief your problem with the example.
Thanks
I'm trying to create a flat view that shows all documents in a list without folders, but I can't figure out how to get for each document the columns of the parent folder.
We have to keep the folders system, but be able to use filters on this view.
View screenshot with folders
View Screenshot without folders, where I need to get the folder columns
I think this is a misunderstanding of the columns behavior, in fact you are displaying the same columns in both views (except for Modified, Index, ISO Language), however I assume what you really want is to display the same Field Values of the parent folder for each child item, that kind of behavior (values inheritance between folders and child items) isn't possible by just editing the view neither by applying some list settings.
First of all you need to understand that list items, documents and folders are all list items from the system perspective so they have individual properties for each one of them, a folder is just a special type of item that is able to contain other items (strictly speaking is just simulating a container).
In your case the Field Values that are being displayed in the columns of the folders view are values that belong to the folder itself but not to his child items. If you want to propagate those field values for the child items of each folder then you have two options:
Manually: Assign the values to each child item by editing their
properties using the Edit Form or using a Grid View to edit multiple
items faster.
Automatically: Create a Workflow or Event Receiver to copy the values
of the parent folder to each new item/document that is added to the
list/library.
However, as I can see your library is not being used in production yet, so my personal recommendation is to change your approach and use something similar to a Managed Metadata term store instead of folders (folders should be your last option to categorize items/documents, just for cases when you really don't have another way to achieve your goal), with the Managed Metadata approach you are able to apply tags to the items allowing them to belong to multiple categories and being filtered and searched more efficiently, but I know what you may be thinking "how can I do this if the Managed Metadata Service is not available in SharePoint Foundation", well thats why I said "use something similar", there should be more than one third party solution out there that will provide a similar functionality, but if you want to choose the less effort path, just use out-of-the-box Multi-choice field or Multi-lookup field, that you can start to using right now and assign the categories that you want to your items and create different views and filter them.
To achieve this you need to create a new view, or modify an already existing one, in your library.
When you edit or create a new view you are presented with the "Edit view" screen, here you can choose to "Show all files without folders" in the "Folders" section.
See e.g. for more details http://www.bloggedbychris.com/2013/10/19/flatten-document-library-list-sharepoint-2013-2010/ on this particular problem.
short: A listview webpart contains a table with an ID composed of two GUID's, how do I find these?
I am working on adding some additional behaviour to a standard sharepoint listview-webpart.
Preferably I don't want to actually edit the webpart itself. I want to put javascript in a helper webpart to add some onclick events to the table rows which pass the values of the id and status columns to the helper webpart, which then displays some buttons depending on the row's status.
I searched around to see how others tackled this problem, and usually they use the webpart container div with ID WebPartWPQ _n_". The problem is that these webparts are going to be used on lots of sites, and I have no way of knowing the value of _n_.
A bit further down in the hierarchy is the main table of the view, and it also has an ID. In my test-case: {BF3FB0FA-7E7F-4920-A326-B5E46826B693}-{BD0777BD-455D-4554-A80E-8A11D990D1A5}
I figured these two guids must stand for something and could possibly be looked up.
So I went on a search through Sharepoint Manager to try to find those GUIDs, but I can't find them. Neither is the list ID, nor the original View ID, nor the web ID or the site ID.
So my question: Does anybody know what these ID's stand for, and how I can find them with my webpart code?
Have you considered using XSLT to customize the output of the webpart? You could then customize the output HTML and include any identifiers you wish so that you could reference them in your javascript. This is a pretty good description of how to do this: Overriding the presentation of an XSLT List View Web Part.
I have a series of questions which are pulled from a SharePoint list and loaded into a repeating section. The section has three elements, the Question # (from SharePoint), and Question itself (from SharePoint), and a drop down box Yes/No (NOT from SharePoint)...
The repeating group portion works just fine, it is pulling all Question # and Questions from the SharePoint site, but I cannot bind the drop down box (yes/no) to any sort of local data source in order to record the information.
Essentially what I have is a dynamically generated form which pulls questions off a SharePoint and a user will answer Yes or No for each question. I cannot associate the Yes/No drop down with anything because it resides within a Repeating section...
Thanks for any help!
I think the problem is that you are basing your main datasource on the sharepoint data. As soon as you base your Main Datasource on a webservice (Sharepoint or self-built) then it cannot be modified without modifing the webervice.
There are a couple of ways that you could go about achieving your desired result.
Create a webservice that retrieves the data from Sharepoint and then serves up a pre populated form.
Add a secondary datasource (Retrieve) to the form and then add the data to the repeating section with code.
You can add rule triggering submit connection at yes/no dropdowms.
The way I achieved this is as follows:
I did not use the wizard to handle all of the data binding.
I created the repeating group, with all the fields that I wanted to appear in each iteration of that group.
From there I wrote code to populate that repeating group with information that I got from various SharePoint sources. (e.g. Question #, Question Body)
When it came time to populate the "answer" control that a user can interract with I simply shoved a 0 in there for the value.
At the end, when I submitted, I traversed through the repeating group and constructed a CAML document based on the answers.
From there, I shot the answers to a SharePoint list, and shoved the form up on a SharePoint library.
The links Nathan shared with me might not outline this in full detail, but were very helpful!
let me explain my current situation
i have a SharePoint site lets say it is MAIN, and a subsite lets call it SUBMAIN
in MAIN i have a list called "a" and in subMAIN i have a list called "b"
both lists have the exact same columns,
i need to show the content of both lists (ordered by modified date for example) in one webpart in the main page i know it is possible some how but couldnt get to it.
currently i am showing only the content of list "a" in a content query webpart (i have changed the way it display and added to it horizontal merquee) so it will be nice if somehow i can add contents of list"b" also to the same content query webpart (but if it is not possible in content query webpart its ok, at least let me know what other options do i have)
your help is appreciated
If you are using SharePoint Designer to do this, take a look at this blog.
If you are building your own web part, I would perform two queries on the SPList objects. You can then aggregate, sort, etc. the results however you would like. If you aren't familiar with SPList, you can look here for the MSDN overview.
I've built web parts to display items from 2 different lists, and I did something similar to what Scott Price suggested. I used an SPQuery object for each list and used it to get DataTable objects that I could then use with things like Repeaters and DataLists. You could merge your two tables and do something similar.
The biggest trick for me was setting up the custom templates for DataBinding in a webpart. To do that, I created a custom class that implemented the ITemplate interface and then emitted the HTML for each item from the template class in an event handler. Then, you just create an instance of your template class and set that as the ItemTemplate property of your, say, DataList.
This post and this one do a better job of explaining that approach, but the nice thing is that you have complete control of the markup, and you can style it as you like.
If you're not looking to code your own solution, you might consider this webpart on codeplex:
http://rssaggregator.codeplex.com/
It's actually an RSS aggregator, but since all SharePoint lists have built-in RSS feeds, you can use it just as well to aggregate the SharePoint lists from the different sites.
Another approach is SLAM, SharePoint List Association Manager, an open source project my company created and actively supports. SLAM will allow you to configure those two lists to be automatically synchronized to SQL tables at which point you can create a query to join the two. If you have the two lists built off a content type (since they have the same fields) you can actually slam the content type and have both lists in the same SQL table.