In my Sharepoint site, I have a list where users can enter his/her profile information, such as first name, last name, age, sex. In addition to this information, I want to let the users upload their images as well. When I create a view for this list, how can I let them show their image along with other information?
Can anyone tell me if there is any way to upload an image while adding new item to the list which will be use later in creating view?
A few ways to approach this:
Start with a picture library
Add additional columns to the base set for storing the profile information you need. This is very simple and the list can be very simply managed using out-of-the-box views. Users are added by uploading their image and filling in their personal details.
Start with a contact list
Add a picture column for the user's image. This would require the extra step of the user having to upload their image somewhere. I would discount this option over the previous one as there are no significant advantages and you have to deal with the extra step.
Use My Sites
This gives each user their own private and public page and has the advantage of being initially populated from Active Directory. Users can upload a picture of themselves and you get other nice features as well.
However this won't give you the list you're looking for - you would need write a web part to query the profile data and display it as a list. Features to only display certain users and/or for editing a user's profile information may also be needed.
This can be a nice powerful solution but could also get complex quickly and may be overkill for what you need. My Sites should be planned carefully and require user education.
http://sparqubepicturelite.codeplex.com - is newer and better version for SharePoint 2010 and it is not a web-part but a column.
tried imageupload available at codeplex?
http://imageupload.codeplex.com/
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Good day to you. I am newbie in SharePoint 2013 so please bear with me. I have created around 15 lists in my website each containing same columns but different data (they differ semantically).
I am aware that we can change the default view, edit and display form for each list by creating new form in SharePoint Designer 2013. This seems like a very bad approach as far as the maintenance is concerned. I know my lists are exactly the same so why do I have to create same 15 display forms for each of the lists?
Is there a way to create one custom Display form (may be in a central location, i don't know i am just thinking :P ) for all the lists? Is there a way to tell a list to use a specific display form? Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.
If i understand your question correctly, you have 15 lists with same set of columns. You want to change the display/look of the form. All 15 lists should have same look and feel right!! If yes, then why don't you try with some html, javascript solution. Since you are in sharepoint 2013, javascript support for solutions is very good like rest queries. You can use SPServices also.
If you want to to add data to the list whenever you click on the "New Item" link in the list then hijack this link such that it should navigate to your custom form. Pass your list name as query parameter. Whenever user is saving the form, get the list name from the query parameter and save the data to that list.
There could be another ways also to achieve the solution with html and javascript.
Useful links:
Microsoft, Microsoft, SPServices
Sam I think you can create a custom content type and create custom display form for your content type. Enable the content type in each of your lists so automatically this customized form would be available.
The advantage of this approach is that suppose if you need one more list after some time you can just add this content type and your form would be available into the new list as well.
The approach is explained in the link below.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/varun_malhotra/archive/2009/06/06/define-custom-new-edit-display-forms-for-content-types.aspx
Check this one also
https://joshmccarty.com/2011/02/sharepoint-custom-list-with-custom-content-types-and-custom-display-forms/
Just wanted to write the solution which I implemented as it might help others as well. (Thanks Hiren and Mihir for your valuable inputs)
I had 15 lists and I was showing the data to the user using content search web part with custom display template. All of the lists were using the same display template so I made a new page just to show the item details. In the display template I pointed the item URL (i hijacked the list name and the current item id) to my new page and displayed the item. Let me know if anyone is interested in the whole solution or further elaboration is required.
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'm building an iPhone app that, among other things, allows the user to take and store photographs associated with locations. I am currently using the ALAssetLibrary to allow the photographs to be stored in Photos and be accessible outside the app (on a computer for instance via the built-in mechanisms). There is not a lot of technical content out there for working with the ALAssetLibrary but from what there is I have managed to cobble together a working version of this. I have had to resort to storing a dictionary of photo URLS in my app and manually detecting if the photo still exists when displaying lists of them because there does not seem to be a way to add custom metadata to an ALAsset.
What I would really like to do is add two custom metadata fields to each asset to provide it with a title and a custom id value that I can use to filter on when enumerating the asset library.
As a secondary task, I'd like the user to be able to update the title metadata.
Can it be done? At this point, I really don't think it can because the API really doesn't seem to provide the necessary methods to get/set custom metadata. I'm hoping against all odds that there is some other aspect to the AssetLibrary framework that I have not yet discovered.
At a minimum, if someone can authoritatively say "NO" then at least others might find this breadcrumb on their own trail of hope and change tack more quickly!
And, having 0 reputation I can't tag it with AssetLibrary :( wow, this day is just going downhill. FML
I've been looking over the documentation and I dont think it is possible to tack on additional fields to the ALAsset object, well you can create your own object or extend theirs but that wont help you when your pulling back assets because you'll need to init yours and populate it then.
Look I know this falls short of a really good answer but I had to try.
The ALAsset class documentation describes a property - customMetadata. This is documented to be an NSDictionary of whatever custom tags you want. Currently, however, it is not implemented in the class (I've raised a bug on Apple's developer site to bring the issue up).
I am trying to split out what I originally wanted in a single form. The downside was that I wanted to keep multiple lists and I found that I could not use a single form with multiple lists.
What I am trying to do is to keep my customer information in a separate list/form so I can re-use it in a different application as well.
What I would like to do is give a picker to pick the customer from a list, and if the customer is not listed to allow the creation of a new one.
What I am wondering is how I can leave the main form, create the new customer, and then return to the main form but with the new customer information passed to the new form as selected. In ASP.NET one of the ways I would do this is through the querystring, but I am not sure if that is doable or preferred in Sharepoint.
Any thoughts or links to tutorials would be great.
Please keep in mind that due to access/security limitations I am trying to do this strictly through the browser and Sharepoint Designer.
Thanks!
With your access limitations, I don't see a solution that will allow the refresh of the original form to get the new data. You may be able to hack in some JQuery stuff to do this, but I just don't see it being an easy/value-for-time thing to do.
You may just have to allow the form user to save the form without customer info and come back to it.
A list view can then highlight forms with no customer info. This all depends on the usage scenario.
You can use the Source query string parameter to get you back to the original form after completing the new customer form. However, unless you add some code (either javascript or server side) you won't get the id of the new customer.
The best option is probably using jquery and the sharepoint web services. It's quite easy if you start with the right scripts, and you can do something like your original plan - make a simple form in a jquery ui popup.
You can also use javascript to manage linking between multiple forms, but you need to be careful about clearing out already entered form data.
Another option would be to edit dispform.aspx and add dataviews for other lists, along with appropriate add buttons, and add javascript to the new customer form that sets the value of a connecting lookup field. However, that tends to require quite a bit of messing about with list guids and other undocumented bits.
I need to filter the content in all the pages according to user selections. there should be one control to select different parameters like country, branch and location. page content should change according to user selected values throughout site even user navigate to other pages or subsites. When user closes his/her browser and comes back he/she has to see the content according to most recent selections.
Thanks in advance.
There are no out of the box components that will help you do exactly what you want. The closest you can get to is using the Audience Targeting feature. Kept to simple scenarios, this feature can provide a lot of mileage.
I recommend writing a custom webpart/feature for sharepoint. Depending on your policy at work the last part may not be possible to implement.
When user closes his/her browser and comes back he/she has to see the content according to most recent selections.