Can I alter the Alert system in SharePoint, I want an email sent to different people based on what buttons are selected in a list.
I think the answer to your question as far as I can follow it, is that you can do it by triggering a workflow when list items are created.
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I am wondering if it is possible to have a custom form in Sharepoint 2010 where I am able to add/edit a calendar event and access the attendees list that is normally visible on the workspace page.
I assume that perhaps I need to at least hard code a workspace to be selected as I believe attendees need to be assigned to a workspace.
Open to suggestions as I'm new to Sharepoint but seems crazy having to create or link to a workplace for each event.
Greatly appreciate any help.
#WashBurn not sure if this what you are looking for. Goto your calendar - list settings. goto the "Content Types" section. click the content type...should be event. from there click "Add from existing site content types " and attendees should be in there. hope that helps!
There is a simple (unfortunately not intuitive) way to achieve what you are trying to do.
click on list settings for your calendar list. You will see about half way down a section called content types.
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Click on the event content type (which should be there by default.
this takes you to another similar screen where you can simply add the attendees column.
Once you know that attendees are part of an event it is then intuitive.
Hope this helps.
This is one of many nasty little things that come up when you try to build your meeting management on SharePoint. Other very common problems include integration with any e-mail client, first of all Outlook but not only, sending meeting requests from SharePoint and handling the respoded attendee's status...
The SharePoint calendar e-mail extension is a third party solution that might solve your problem.
Here is the link: http://www.sapiens.at/en/products/pages/sharepoint-calendar-e-mail-extension-3.0.aspx
Every SharePoint list (wether it's document library, calendar, lnks or custom list) have both a Create Form, Edit Form and a Delete Form. Each of which you through SharePoint designer can create your own custom versions of, in your case, this is needed to edit a Calendar List item with its associates/attachments.
Read one of Microsoft's own guides on how, here
Although this is a very old post, i just ran into the same issue and figured out a way to solve this issue.
Simply go into the Content Type 'Event' and add the Column 'Attendees' :)
Then you can also use the attendees as input for a workflow, e.g. to notify them on Event creation/update. i attached two Screenshots to show how you can do that using SharePoint designer!
With this phrase you can add the Link to the Event into the Mail Body:
[%Workflow Context:Current Item URL%]
Hope that helps other people in the future.
I believe I have the solution we are all looking for.
Create a standard event calendar (the one that does not have attendees)
Add the 'Schedule and Reservations' content type to the calendar from the list settings page
Modify the 'Calendar' view so the filters read
attendees is equal to me
OR
attendees is equal to
The second entry is completely empty but allows SP to match for no attendees
You can add more columns with OR statements if you need to be sorting based on additional groups
This worked for my needs, hope it works for everyone else
I need to trigger alert, if value of particular column (say marks<8, send mail to manager) changes.
What should I do?
Some kinds of lists (e.g. tasks) allow to send alerts when someone changes an item that appears in a particular view. Read the article Use SharePoint Filtered Views to Stop Sending Alerts to Yourself to get all the details (appropriate section begins with Well you need to set up a filtered view).
If you list supports this feature, first create a view that shows only the items that satisfy your marks<8 condition and then configure an alert that uses this view.
You can implement an event handler on the list to do this :
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/Chandresh.P/EventHandler04292009070324AM/EventHandler.aspx
I've just started to look workflows in 2010 which seem pretty good but I can't find seem to find out how do something very simple.
Basically I'm creating a lost property list and workflow, essentially anyone can add a new item to the list for an item that they've found. Next anyone can make a claim on an item in the list which should then email the admins where they can investigate and close claim if the rightful owner has claimed their item.
Should be very simple and would take me no time in .net but not in SharePoint! Any suggestions on how I could do this?
I've been looking at SPD workflow tasks and not really getting anywhere. My next step is to go into VS2010 but this seems overkill for such an easy task.
Thanks
Dan
what is your intention to allow someone to "claim?" are you intending to enable a "claim" as just a flag and a workflow sending emails to the admins?
Create a Yes/No field Claimed with the default value set to false.
Create a SPD Workflow that would start OnItem Create.
In this workflow add an Action that waits till the Claimed Flag is set to true.
Then you can send the email to the administrator (also with an SPD activity).
Optionally you can delete this item from the list after a period of time.
Based on my understanding of your question and the fact that we tried something similar a while back, I have created a blog (my first blog entry!). Below is the link, feel free to leave comments;
http://sp10tech.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-simple-workflow-using.html
Alternate Idea;
Maybe use two lists. One for items lost and one for claims. This way you can have multiple claims on each lost item. Add a field that references the claims list so the user can select it. Then simply have the administrators use a out of the box alert mechanism. No need for elaborate work flow.
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!
How to automatically print a form when a new item is posted to a list in SharePoint?
I created a list in SP, with customized Entry and Edit forms and a workflow that connects them. Every time a new item is posted the Entry form needs to be used, but when I click submit I need the workflow not only to post the item to the list, but also generate a 'Print form' that can either saved or printed.
Considering the event, adding an item triggers an SPItemEventReceiver.ItemAdded. You would call your printing code from within this event, and deploy the functionality through a Feature.
To give a really specific answer, you'll need to explain a bit more - where should the printing occur? On the machine from which the list was modified, or some central printing location?
More generally, Sharepoint can trigger a variety of events. Ishai Sagi's blog has a user-triggered solution that may give you some ideas. You could use a Javascript event as explained here. You could even send a specially-formatted email to a computer with Outlook running, with a rule that triggers a print.