field type that has been custom developed and not provided out-of-the-box
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Grouping using a custom column causing all office files to disappear in SP2013
I'm having an issue with a custom view in SP2013 which is causing all Office documents to disappear (doc, xls, ppt, etc) and only displays PDF documents. This only happens when I try to group the ...
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Reading a specific image rendition programatically returns the original image
I've built a field type that inherits from RichImageField because I wanted to add validation on the width and height of the images referenced in that field. And it's working great.
When I moved to ...
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Is there a column type that supports both internal and external links?
I'm creating a custom list as part of a solution. The list items are then rendered via a visual webpart which also exists in the solution. The webpart is designed to allow a user to maintain a list of ...
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SharePoint 2013 - Document Library Custom Field Type
In our testing, it seems we've found an issue where Document/Record Libraries in SharePoint 2013 refuse to work properly with a custom field control.
We created a very simple custom field control, ...
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Can I get the current list item values on a custom field GetValidatedString method
I have 2 custom fields on a list.
One is called client id, and on the validation I have a custom logic to see if the code exists in an external system.
I have another custom field called job, and in ...
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Can I prevent author field being populated when changing content type?
I have two content types:
Content type 1 only has the standard author field.
Content 2 also has a custom field with display name "Author".
When I change the content type of a document from 1 to 2 ...
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Cross site cross database lookup field SP2010
SiteCollection 1 in ContentDB 1 has List 1 with custom lookup field.
This lookup field returns all text fields from any selected list in a site collection specified. Each site collection is in a ...
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Custom Field Type Deployment error
I am receving the following error message in the ULS logs
The type 'MyHeaderField,$Sharepoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$' could not be deserialized. Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: ...
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Generic column comparison between different SharePoint list / Site
I had to check "equality" between two different values stored in generic column in generic lists.
Suppose I have two SharePoint installation and a WebPart. The webpart had to check differences ...
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How to save data in ItemFieldValue of custom lookup field type?
I have created custom field type inherited from SPFieldText successfully. I save a data in the item value as string of the next format: "id;#title". Now I need to convert the base type from ...
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Custom columns (IFRAME), web parts and connections
We have created a number of custom columns for our client. Some of them display content using an iframe to an .ASPX page (so that some code-behind can be executed).
I was recently tasked to create a ...
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Rendering custom MultiColumn field type does not work properly
I am trying to create a custom multicolumn field type for SharePoint 2010. Everything looks great when you create a new Item that has that field type assigned. The problem is once I save the item ...
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SPFieldUrl does not work
I have an external list, items in that list have a field that contains an url. I want to show this url as a link in sharepoint form.
I found this example
and defined in my Creator and Updater methods ...
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System.MissingMethodException when creating new column based on custom RichImageField field type
I'm trying to create a custom field type inherited from the publishing RichImageField type. I did the following,
1- Created the XML declaration of the column as follows
<FieldTypes>
...
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Custom Field Type in 2013 Not Respecting Header Template
I have a custom field type with a fldtypes_xxx.xsl template that we have carried forward from a 2010 solution into a 2013 solution. The Number_body template we are using works just fine. However, I ...
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Custom Fields - how to get the value of one rendering control in another rendering control?
I am working with some custom fields. One of them is a choice field. I need to be able to get the value of the currently selected item in the choice field rendering control (i.e. what would be ...
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Does the SPField.OnAdded() method get called from a CAML deployment?
If I create a custom list definition and instance in CAML, as part of a feature, and I have included a custom field as part of that list, will that field's OnAdded() method get called when the feature ...
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How to define Guid for custom field type?
I have developed in Visual Studio solution that define custom field type for SPList. Everything works fine. After deploy I was able to add my custom column into SPList. SP has created field ID ...
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Custom SPField error when re-deploying or upgrading WSP
I have created a custom SPField and is working well. But if I retract/deploy or if a upgrade the solution, I've got this error when accessing the item:
SPField Field type is not installed ...
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Are Display Form FieldControls used in 2013 Custom Field Types?
When using a Custom Field Type that has a Field Control (provided by FieldRenderingControl), it seems that the Field Control isn't used when rendering data on the Display Form if the SPField.JSLink is ...
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Custom Column, Shared Properties and Document Sets
I have created a custom column with SharePoint and it appears to be working nicely.
I have created a document library and added to it a document set content type. This document set has the custom ...
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Problems with Custom Field Type list view rendering in 2013
I'm upgrading an existing 2010 Custom Field Type to work with 2013. Where possible I'm attempting to re-use code from the 2010 version, to avoid duplicate work.
The main problem I'm coming across ...
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ListItem GUID doesn't shown
I want to display the GUID of a ListItem in a column of a List.
I have created a list with some fields, including a custom field to display the guid of each listitem, this field is not editable.
When ...
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Render Pattern in list view for “custom field types” sharepoint 2010
I have developed a custom field type which will show the link to the "workflow history list" in the list (It's a column in the list).
It works fine in sharepoint 2007 site. when i migrate the code to ...
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what does “ows” means and why people use it before name of a field
I seen at different places if a field has a name "LinkFilename" then while trying to get its value using CAML query or any other way, developers put it as "ows_LinkFilename", can someone explain it to ...
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Field to store a list of links
I'm looking for a way to store a simple list of links (add/remove) in a single field on a basic Custom List. My team has extensive custom field development experience and we've built such fields ...
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How to List SharePoint Groups in a dropdown list when uploading docs
I would like to list all users and SP groups in a dropdown list when uploading documents.I need this so i admins can select a specific group or users to assign permissions too.
Is this possible? I ...
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Creating Site column with a custom SPFieldType
i have this solution deployed on my sharepoint.
http://ilovesharepoint.codeplex.com/releases/view/44989
And i created a Site column of type Lookup with picker that is from the above solution.
...
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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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SharePoint OOTB List and Lookup field problem
I am working in a project with SharePoint Server 2010.
I have the hole project inside a Visual Studio solution (site columns, content types, lists, workflows...)
Everything were working well until I ...
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Custom Field with Custom Format
I have been tring to create a text field (SPFieldText) with a custom format XX-XXXX-XXXX and add a check (control) so that when you add a dokument with same property but different format to a document ...
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Content Type adding and removing to a list: “ghost content type” problem
I have a problem with Content Types... I have houndreds of lists that has some content Type and a configuration list in which I store the content type to be attached to my custom list type.
I have an ...
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Parsing custom field type
I developed a custom field type for List, now I am trying to get list data using SharePoint list web services in "K2 workflow" I can get all fields values except this custom field type as I am not ...
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How do I find lists using a Custom Field Type?
I'm trying to find all lists that use the "stoneshare.cascadingdropdown.withfilter.wsp" feature: http://cascddlistwithfilter.codeplex.com/. This is on my upgraded SharePoint 2010 server.
It doesn't ...
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Get listitems with custom columns and edit them through c# client object model
I am trying to get a collection of .pdf files from a certain document library, as well as their fields and values. I need three of them - DisplayName, "Barcode"(custom) and "Document Type"(also ...
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Reason for Custom Field not getting displayed while adding new Item
I had a custom field deployed in one of server and now am trying it on my VPC which is exact copy of Server, however I added/deployed solution, checked GAC, dll was there, looked at controltemplate ...
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How can I create a column that always points to the same hyperlink and is not editable
Working with foundation 2010.
I'm trying to create an admin configurable read-only hyperlink field.
I'd like a column type where I can specify the url and description (in the content type ...
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Custom field editor problem
I have an interesting problem that i hope you can help me with.
I have written a custom fieldtype that extends the sptextfield using
the example from this website.
...
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Can't see any custom fields when 'adding new item' to custom list
As title says, I can only see the 'Title' field when adding a new item to my custom list.
Any ideas?
I've double checked the field definitions and checked the field references are in both default ...
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How can I add Custom Field settings to all OOB Field types?
I need to add a custom "Check Box" property to all existing OOB SharePoint column types. This should appear in the Additional Column Settings section for any column type created; this property will be ...
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Help to understand content type
Given the below definition of a content type:
<List xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint" Title="Algorithm Types List Definition" EnableContentTypes="TRUE" FolderCreation="FALSE" ...
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Custom Field List View — How to look up values from other lists?
I have a custom list (List ONE) with fields:
A, B, C
A is simply a single row of text.
B is a lookup field to another list (List TWO).
C is a a custom field I've written.
How can I have the list ...
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Custom Field XSL — Name vs FieldType
I've created a custom field according to the following walkthrough:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff606773.aspx
My field XML is as follows:
<FieldType>
<Field ...
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Customize LookUp Field
Someone knows how to customize a LookUp field to make it look like it:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18929/An-OwnerDraw-ComboBox-with-CheckBoxes-in-the-Drop
(Dropdown + Checkbox).
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How to remove a field from the list settings page
I created one custom list. While deploying that list, it gives me a deployment error. I remove that solution from the solution gallery and recreated the list with similar functionality with another ...
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Custom Field PropertySchema Type=User
I have a custom field in my SP Project. In my .xml file, I have a propertySchema and a user field inside it. Currently the field does not accept multiple users/groups. How can I change that?
I ...
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Custom Field to show when an Item has broken role inheritance
I had to realize a Custom Field to show when the associated Item has broken role inheritance...
I see 2 ways to do that:
Read just in time if the Item has broken role inheritance
Derive a Boolean ...
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Can I use a custom field type icon instead of value?
I'm creating a new custom field type to go with my custom document library.
What I want to do is to have the column display a small icon upon meeting a certain condition, for example if the element ...
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Custom Field Type error when deploying solution
I'm having problems when deploying a solution that creates several custom columns, for the content types I need to use.
As it turned out I needed a couple custom field types for my application.
The ...
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Choices from Sharepoint list
How do get choices from a Sharepoint list, so the users has a way to define new choices.
Right now I have defined fields in elements.xml, but that is static.
Anybody know how? I would be really ...
