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Synchronized InfoPath Attachment With Document Library

I have an InfoPath 2010 form with a Document attachment. if any user upload infopath form with attachment, than attachment must be added in document library, if any user modify or delete any ...
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how to copy List item attachment to document library with SharePoint Designer workflows?

I have SP Foundation without access to the server local folders, so my only change is through Sharepoint designer as far as I know. how can I copy a List item attachment to document library with ...
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For attachments in InfoPath 2010 forms, can the documents be displayed in Alphabetical order?

I need to be able to have the attachments in an InfoPath form display those attachments in Alpha order by document name. Hope someone can help me. (The information is ultimately displayed in ...
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How do I get the attachments for a SP 2010 list to sort the attachments in alpha order by document name?

I hope someone can help me PLEASE. How do I get the attachments on my SharePoint 2010 List item to sort in alphabetical order by document name?
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Sharepoint 2013 - Contributers unable to add pictures/upload documents to discussion board posts

I've recently set up a SharePoint 2013 site internally as a small intranet for our staff. I've set up a discussion board and managed to assign permissions so that all users are contributors and my ...
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Method behind attachment, for custom pages

This may be a poorly formed question, but I'm fairly new to sharepoint. What I'm doing is creating a custom page (just basic HTML and JS), and using that page to call SPAPI and SPServices to input ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Discussion Board Disable Attachments

Do you know if you can disable attachments on sharepoint discussion board? I tried list settings - advanced settings - Attachments - Disable. But that doesn't seem to remove the options from ...
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Uploading large files to SP 2010 - InfoPath limits and alternatives

Problem) We have several complex InfoPath forms in production. Got a new requirement for one of them: Client needs to be able to upload large files to SP libraries using this IP form (as file ...
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View sp list item attachment high CPU usage server restart needed SP 2010 EBS

We are using SP 2010 with EBS (external blob storage http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802812(v=office.14).aspx). The problem: When a user tries to download some large attachments (100MB) ...
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Event Attachments Opens Excel Spreadsheets in XLViewer

I have a calendar list with attachments enabled. When i attach an XLS file to an event, SharePoint wants to open it in xlviewer.aspx, but throws an error every time. I don't want to open the file in a ...
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How can I have a user attach a file to a workflow task?

I'm using sharepoint designer 2010, custom list. I have created workflow on that list. I need to enable the user to enclose a file to the workflow task: What kind of task I need to use? P.S. I'm ...
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infopath > How to make sure there is an attachment

Creating a resume upload form where user must upload attachment. On submit button I want to disable submit button if attachments is not present? I added Attachments is not present and this seems to be ...
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How to display list item attachment to a user without permissions on the list

I have sharepoint list/library. Only admin user has permission on this list. Now i want to display attachment to all authenticated user in my custom web part. How can i achieve this functionality.? ...
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Is there a way to determine if there is an attachment in a calculated column?

I'd like to have a column display "Yes" if there is an attachment to the sharepoint list item, or "No" if there isn't one. Default would be no, but then if they edit the item to add an attachment, I ...
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Programmatically bind list item attachments to SharePoint “Attachment” control in Custom Visual Web Part SharePoint 2010

I followed the following link to use SharePoint “Add Attachment” control to add attachments to list item from a custom visual web part. The attachments are getting saved correctly. ...
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Auto upload documents to sharepoint from outlook attachments

I'm looking for an out of the box solution to auto upload outlook email attachments to SharePoint and sending them as links instead of actually attaching them as files to emails. I heard about 3rd ...
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Save Conflict error when editing attachment while editing its item

I am getting a Save Conflict error when performing the following steps - Open list item Click edit Open attachment Edit the contents of the attachment Save attachment Save Item Error thrown ...
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Quickly view to edit properties for image documents

I'm an experienced developer but new to SharePoint and need some help... My system uploads a number of scanned documents to SharePoint each day (currently in TIFF format but can be changed if needs ...
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SharePoint:AttachmentsField

could you please help , how can I set a substitute string / first 15 characters of the attachement, or string like "Attachment" for AttachementsField in DVWP within the code: <xsl:element ...
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maximum size of file attachments in rich text fields

When a custom list has a multi line text column which allows rich text, users have the possibility to add files to this rich text field (not as an attachment to the list item, but as attachments to ...
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Delete attachment from SharePoint AttachmentsField Control not working

I have a custom visual web part that contains a SharePoint AttachmentsField control. <SharePoint:AttachmentsField ID="AttachmentsField1" ControlMode="Edit" ItemId="33" EnableViewState="true" ...
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Setting attachments to Read Only after upload to an item on a custom list

I have a list where we add attachments to the list item. I want the list item itself to be editable but I want to make the attachment read only. Is this possible?
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browse gui to document library

I was wondering if its possible when attaching a file to a sharepoint list item, is there a way that I can have the browse gui open up to a specific sharepoint document library? Basically, how can I ...
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Attachments in SharePoint 2007 Calendar Deleting

We have a recurring event in a SharePoint calendar where we attach Word and Excel documents in. Each event contains 1 to 3 documents. The attachments are systematically being deleted on the day of ...
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Update list item not retuning full item properties

I'm using SharePoint web services to update items by calling the UpdateListItems method, and the response is not providing me the attachment data of the item correctly as other services does, like ...
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Email enabled list/library missing attachments

I have an email enabled library that accepts attachments, saves original emails, and accepts emails for any sender. The problem is, that I can email this email address along with several other people, ...
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Send e-mail with attachment (Office 365)

Is it possible to send an e-mail with attachment in Office 365? As attachment we would want the attachment from a listitem or a document from a document library. Maybe with the use of webservices or ...
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I want a workflow that will email attachments

I'm creating a custom list for a helpdesk app. I want the user to fill out a form in sharepoint (2010) and add attachments from screenshots, etc. The workflow should send an email to our helpdesk ...
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Get attachments of list items with SPServices

How can I fetch the attachments (the URL, to be precise) of a list item with SPServices (the jQuery library)?
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Exception when adding attachment

When I'm saving attachment to list item, an exception is thrown: The list item was saved, but one or more attachments could not be saved.Could not upload file xyz.txt. Despite the exception, list ...
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Attach multiple files to a list item with a single action

I have a list with a "New Item" form that has the built-in "Attach File" button at the top. If I want to upload I file then I can click on that button and I am taken to a page where I can choose the ...
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List item attachments not showing up when accessed through the object model

I've got some list items which have manually attached (through the web interface) files and need to access these files on server-side. Whenever I look at SPListItem.Attachments though, it always shows ...
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Attachments to Documents

I have a document library. I want to be able to add supporting documents to a document(I am using a custom content type based on document). Ideally I would like to add them as attachments so ...
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List DVWP and directly linking to upload attachment

I'm working on a dataview web part in a MOSS 2007 environment which comes from a custom list. In this dataview web part, I'm wanting to link to the Attach Item form so users can attach some ...
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Form Library and Attachment

Is it possible to add an attachment to a form library? I tried publishing a form that has an attachment control but getting "The selected field cannot be promoted because its data type is not ...
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Infopath Attachment Menu Text Color is Grayed out

I have a 2007 info path form on my share point site that has a attachment field. When you select the drop down menu for the field all of the choices are grayed out. I don't know how the color got ...
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Attachments on custom forms

I have some lists on my SharePoint site that use custom new and edit forms. I found that these custom forms would not allow attachments. Implementing the Microsoft solution from here has solved the ...
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Disabling attachements in lists

I'd like tu turn off attachments in my custom list definitions. In order to do that, I specified DisableAttachments="TRUE" whenever it was possible: in list definitions Schema.xml and in Elements.xml, ...
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“File not found” when attaching file to list item

I'm trying to write a section of code that lets users attach files to list items. The goal is to allow any user to be on the SP site and upload any "legal" file from their machine or shared drives to ...
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Export attachment from SP 2010 list to SQL Server 2008 R2

CAVEAT: This was all done by an external party before I started with the company. We have a sharepoint list (source) that is exported to a sql server database table (destination) in order to perform ...
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List Item file attachment using ECMAScript Object Model

How to simply upload & attach file to listItem using Javascript? And how to get/download attachments.
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Why does the FileUpload control get bound to the current list item in a custom list EditForm?

I've written a custom edit form for a list which means I lose certain out of the box capabilities such as Attachments as it was part of the out of the box form. The way I have implemented the form is ...
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How can i show attachments as images in a DataView Web Part

I know i can show document attachments this way: <xsl:element name="SharePoint:AttachmentsField"> <xsl:attribute name="runat">server</xsl:attribute> ...
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Export list with attachments

We have a legacy Sharepoint Services 2.0 server where users have been maintaining a few custom lists. There are items in these lists that have attachments (Word, Excel, PDF type documents). Over the ...
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Whats the deal with spaces in attachment file names in SharePoint 2007?

I have a list, with a list item that contains an attachment. I was horrified to see that the link to the attachment doesn't work if the attachment file name contains a space. I'm amazed that ...
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Attachment Field is null

I have created a custom New.aspx for a custom list with visual studio. I have designed user control for this. I'm able to submit the items to the list. However, i have a problem with attachment file ...
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How do I extract / retrieve the full link to a attachment file inside a InfoPath 2007 form?

Suppose that a user have attached a Jack.jpg file as a attachment to a online InfoPath 2007 form, is there a way to retrieve or extract the full URL of this attachment file Jack.jpg?
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wss 3.0 missing sharepoint list attachments contents

I encountered with one problem where the wss 3.0 site lists attachments contents are missing .Attachments appear in the list but when i click on them, contents inside the attachments are not there. ...
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attachment functionality with the custom webpart in sharepoint 2010

i want to implement a attachment functionality in a custom webpart, which functions that same way as it does in sharepoint OOB,...any suggestions?
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Check if attachment in SPD Workflow

Is it possible to check if an attachment is attached to the current listitem? I can check if Attachments equals or not equals to a value, but not if empty. What value should I fill in then? Thanks!

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