Not having much luck with this query in the ExpressionEngine forums and it's time-sensitive, so I figured I'd see if there's any EE-junkies hanging around Stack Overflow.
I'm working on an EE extension and I need to know what hooks to use to parse a custom field's contents when it's first saved, parse it before being displayed to be edited, and parse it when the edited contents are saved once more. My problem is I'm new to EE extension development, and I'm having trouble figuring out which in the long list of hooks I need to use. Best I can tell:
submit_new_entry_end is what I need to tie into when the entry is first created
publish_form_entry_data is what I need to tie into for parsing before the user edits the entry
And I must be overlooking the hook that will let me edit the entry data before it is saved back to the database. Anyone have some advice?
Thanks!
With trial and error, I finally answered my own question. The hooks that you want in order to parse a custom field's contents on save and reparse them before the entry is displayed are:
submit_new_entry_start (called whenever an entry is submitted; "new" appears to be meaningless)
publish_form_entry_data (I had this one right)
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I've created a version tracking that will show all the edited document inside view. What if I want to make all document be draft at the same time, and during that, document can't be edit. And after I click save, all draft document will be saved at the same time.
Edit 1
I have one more question when I do version tracking, how can I make all response document cannot be edit? only current document can be edit?
UPDATE QUESTION
Currently, I am using version tracking to show all list with all edit document. So for now, every time I click EDIT, it will show all history of updated.
So I want create a situation where I have 2 edit option which is EDIT and PC Specification. I want to set PC Specification after edit document, it updated all history under version tracking, but for EDIT I don't want it update under version tracking. Because, for EDIT function, it only for edit one or two information BUT for PC Specification, it is to update all information. For example, I have 3 documents inside the "Computer" view.
When I open one document, it will show document details. On top menu, I have two buttons which are Edit and Close Windows. So can I add one more toolbar? Which is PC Spec as below?
So I will click the PC Spec button on the toolbar then the documents will open as a new document with same document information. Same as edit function. After I click save, it overwrite document + show edit history
For another situation where I click EDIT, same as PC Spec but after I click save, it overwrite document only.
As shown below, the history is when document edit using PC Spec only.
Another question, I have "Archived" view. How can I show only history of document inside "Archived" view?
Hope you guys can understand this. Please ask me anything if you not understand. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks! :)
Regarding your second question, to make all response documents non-editable, you will have to
Give your regular users Author access instead of Editor access in the database's Access Control List and assign them a role, which I'll call "AppUsers".
Give yourself and anyone else who will be responsible for managing the app a role which I'll call "AppAdmins".
Add a hidden computed field with type "Authors" to the form and set the initial value formula to
#If(#IsResponseDoc;"[AppAdmins]";"[AppUsers]":"[AppAdmins]")
Note that this will not have any effect on existing documents until you refresh and re-save them.
Then, you're going to have to hope that automatic versioning refreshes the documents. I'm not sure if it does or does not. If it does not, then you're probably going to have to give up on using the native versioning and write your own version using LotusScript. As I recall, that's what was done in the standard Lotus document library template, because the native versioning is pretty limited in what it can do.
As for your first question, I'm sorry but I really don't understand what you're asking. I can't tell in some parts whether you are telling us what you have already done, or what you want to do. Here on StackOverflow, the best way to get useful answers is to show us very clearly what you have tried, tell us what happens, and tell us what you thought should have happened instead. This is a place for helping you fix your code, not a place to get tutorials that amount to explicit instructions on how to write your code in the first place.
I am currently learning CouchDB and using the O'Reilly book as a guide to get started. I've been following it pretty thoroughly, however, upon working with Sofa, the book requires me to inspect what happens when we hit 'Save' on our edit template. The book says that I should see a success response (uses Firebug the button triggers the Put request), however, instead I get a "
{"error":"not_found","reason":"missing shows function new.html on design doc _design/sofa"}"
Now I only started reading this week and I know the answer might be obvious, but if someone could at least point me in the right direction (where in Sofa to add, fix a bug, patch) that would be great.
My initial guess is that I need to add a "new" shows function, but I just wanted some advice before I delve into this wild goose chase.
sorry if this is a noob question.
{"couchdb":"Welcome","uuid":"4d9b6082e16607a33dcbfdffb57503b5","version":"1.6.1","vendor":{"version":"1.6.1","name":"The Apache Software Foundation"}}
Downloaded the newest version of Sofa from (https://github.com/jchris/sofa)
How to resolve the issue
The issue is that the page is being accessed from:
http://127.0.0.1:5984/myblogdb/_design/sofa/_show/edit
Access it instead from:
http://127.0.0.1:5984/myblogdb/_design/sofa/_show/edit/
(Your database name may differ from 'myblogdb'). Note the trailing backslash.
Explanation of why a show function called "new" is not necessary:
Take the following query to a show function:
http://127.0.0.1:5984/myblogdb/_design/sofa/_show/edit/This-is-a-second-post
This will call the function in edit.js and pass in the document with an _id of This-is-a-second-post, if such a document exists. If the document doesn't exists, as in the case of
http://127.0.0.1:5984/myblogdb/_design/sofa/_show/edit/new.html
Then edit.js sets up the data object passed to Mustache.to_html to have the correct fields for a new post.
Why it breaks in your case
When the edit show function is accessed via
http://127.0.0.1:5984/myblogdb/_design/sofa/_show/edit
The relatives paths to the scripts no longer work.
Then the script defined in edit.html is no longer correct.
As a result, the submit handler
$("form#new-post").submit(function() { ...
is no longer called. If it were called it would return false at the end, which prevents new.html from being POSTed.
Since it is not called, new.html ends up being POSTed, and that redirects the browser to
http://127.0.0.1:5984/myblogdb/_design/sofa/_show/new.html
which points to a non-existent show function, resulting in the error message you are seeing.
I have a request form I'm working on, wherein different departemnts need to be able to update it. To minimize overlap and lost changes I'd like to be able to submit data from the new form to different lists, but I cannot find a way to do this.
Does anyone have any experience trying to do anything similar?
If you're familiar with JQuery andSPServices I could envisage a way to do this.
In the EditForm.aspx, add the JQuery and SPServices libraries. using the $.(document).Ready function, I'd do a quick item update with the SPServices and just copy a column with the same data, so in effect no change looks to have taken place. I'd add in the edit comments something like "Pseduo checkout to [name], [date_time]".
Then allow the user to edit the form as normal but in the code you've added, you trap the PreSave Action and check that the person trying to do the save is the same as the last modified - if it is, save as normal, otherwise, return false on the PreSave and it will be denied. When you actually allow the save, set the edit comments to something sensible.
To complete this, check before doing the pseudo checkout, that the last comments don't contain the psuedo checkout phrase so that you can prevent anyone opening/editing the form whilst somebody else is in the middle of an edit.
This gives a cheap and relatievly easy to implement Check-In/Check-Out for a list. Not perfect of course but should work well in most scenarios (not in datasheet though, so you might need to prevent that type of edit).
If you have two lists would you not then have the problem of potentially two requests for the same thing?
Does none of the version control options for the list solve the problem of potentially multiple concurrent editors?
While SPService is certainly a solution, but you will have to build a UI of ur own.
Try writing a event receiver, which can copy over item to another list as soon as it is created.
It will be nice if you can tell why you really want to have a copy of item in another list
i.e. Auditing purpose etc. , you can get a perfect solution for this in Forum
I have a wss 3.0 install which needs an "anonymous" discussion board. I can modify the view so no usernames are displayed, however when I click on "reply", the message I'm replying to shows up in the rich text box with the username of the previous poster.
Is there a way to remove that username? or Remove the previous posted text altogether? I've found the schema.xml file with lots of relevant info under the ..12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\DiscussionsList\Discuss folder, but not sure if this is the easiest way to adjust this setting.
Any comments appreciated.
Best practice says that you should always create a custom list definition instead of trying to modify the OOB assets.
The easiest way to do this is take a copy of the 12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\DiscussionsList\Discuss folder, modify the feature Ids and names so that its unique. Then your free to change the schema render template (i.e view schema) and modify the edit and display forms.
If you need to modfify the actual entry form you may consider a custom control template : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543922.aspx
Custom list definition : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms466023.aspx
Agrothe,
I have a similar requirement (hide or mask the author inside the reply thread.). What exactly inside of schema.xml do you think will allow you to do accomplish that?
Not sure if the list forms are exposed to xslt. If so, then perhaps this is another approach.
FWIW, the other solutions I have investigated:
(1) A custom event handler. Unfortunately, I can't pinpoint which event fires when someone click reply.
(2) Anonymous blog comments (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/08/06/anonymous-comment-feature-for-sharepoint-blog-now-available-on-codeplex.aspx).
(3) the other thing I am considering, is to introduce a global anonymous active directory login, which users can use to post anonymously. Not ideal, but for the amount of time I have spent researching a solution, might be my last hope.
I have a custom list which has customized edit and new forms which were required by the user.
I then tried to add a new item to a folder (folders have the text of the year e.g. 2010) and when I click save on the customized new form it saves correctly but always to the root of the list.
I am wondering if there is a fix or a work around for this as it is highly annoying.
Alternatively can anyone recommend a way to implement a field which will auto calculate + 1 year from creation date, which might be a possible alternative however it will have to take into account the following.
Where the current year runs october to september.
Thanks for any help this has been driving me mad trying to find a solution.
Can't help much without knowing what you based the custom form on, but for a new form the folder to save to usually shows up in the query string.
The form is a basic custom form list which I have then just modified parts to remove fields that are not required or need to be read only.
The original form worked perfectly and allowed items to be added to the list subfolders.
The new one has no additional code and is using the standard sharepoint DataFormWebPart to create the custom list form and so I have no back end code to insert the item etc, although I may have to resort to this...will I?
You need to be careful when modifying standard forms. I recommend you go back to a copy of the standard form and verify that that saves correctly. Remove the "unneeded" fields until it stops working.
Sometimes with this sort of customisation you need to use css rather than server side changes to modify the form so that the functionality remains in place after the component is hidden.
It is definitely not an issue with the removal of fields as I created a new copy of the original and then changed it to a custom field saved it and tried to add an item.
It went straight into the root.
I tried the original form and it saves to the sub folder correctly.
Okay only work around I have for this at moment (I am currently in discussion with MS) is this.
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/06/13/using-javascript-to-manipulate-a-list-form-field.aspx
I used the method getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle(tagName, identifier, title)
This returned the element I was after and then I basically went to the row dom node and deleted it.
I am hoping to have a nicer method but at least it is a work around for now.