In computing with graphical user interfaces, a drop-down list is a user interface control GUI element ("widget" or "control"), similar to a list box, which allows the user to choose one value from a list.
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dropdown box on change event in SharePoint list forms
I am editing an SharePoint list form using SharePoint Designer. I need to have two drop down boxes one with the names of the countries and other with the names of appropriate state. How can I ...
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Selected value in ribbon DropDown/ComboBox is not displayed
When I select one of the values in my DropDown (or ComboBox, tried both), the event gets triggered correctly, but the selected item is not shown when the DropDown is closed (the box stays empty). I ...
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Group By SharePoint 2007 List
I am using SharePoint 2007 and Share Point Designer.
Please help, if I have a List, how it it possible to group by on the aspx page?
For example I have a long list of dates:
12/1/2012
12/1/2012
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Is there anything i can do about this dropdown being cutoff in IE9?
I'm not incredibly experienced with sharepoint 2010 but I've never had a visual issue this drastic so far. My dropdown list is getting cut off.
Did I do something wrong or is this a known issue? ...
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Creating a drop down list with all US universities
Is this possible? I'd like to pull from a master list of universities and colleges either maintained locally in sharepoint or somewhere online (I found this). The idea is to keep users from typing in ...
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How can I Make a Dropdown box in a Form Field Conditionally Read-only/locked?
I have a drop down box form field (with values level1,level2) in SharePoint list. How can I lock the drop down box selection in the edit form.aspx whenever the condition is level2?
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Dropdown lookupcoloumn in sharepoint list form (newform.aspx)2010
I have a dropdown lookupfield in newform.aspx sharepoint form...unlike choice dropdown the lookupdropdown is 'input' field and not 'select'..
so i raise an onchange event using jquery
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Search Refinements: Some dropdowns displaying number instead of text
I have a large document library that has a bunch of dropdown fields that I'm using as refinements. The refinements should come back as:
ANIMALS
Cat
Dog
Mouse
But what I'm seeing is that it's ...
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Is there a way to find if a column name is in more then one SharePoint list?
This is specific to SharePoint 2007, though I am sure it could cross over into 2010.
My situation is I am a site curator that inherited a site with 30+ lists. Several of these lists are using a drop ...
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VisualWebpart - controls like radiobuttonlist and dropdownlist not firing the SelectedIndexChanged event when inside a repeater datarow
VisualWebpart - controls like radiobuttonlist and dropdownlist not firing the SelectedIndexChanged event when inside a repeater datarow.
Any help?
Source code:
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DropDownList to display External Content Type?
I am creating a visual web part in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010 Server. I would like to use a DropDownList that shows data from an external content type (that is tied to a SQL Database ...
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dropdown box(sharepoint form field) validation sharepoint 2010
I have a sharepoint form field(look up field), a dropdown box in a list...below is the screen shot
when i type into it it finds the name..
but when i type a text which is not present in the drop ...
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DVWP ASP.NET Filter for all pages
I have created a drop down along with DVWP as described in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/949d4443-58a4-464b-9603-e4c280740650.
However I see one ...
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Get value from Managed Metadata Field in Drop Down List
I'm working on a project portal where a user can create a project (team site). The user is asked to fill in details regarding the projects. One of the things that is required is a Managed Metadata ...
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How to remove “Create new view” from view dropdown to the list
Is that possible to remove the "Create new view" option from the view dropdown?
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Dropdown menu doesn't fit in form
I have a problem with the way Internet Explorer displays the drop down menu from a look up column in a form. I have a list that contains the names of US, Mexican and Canadian states. In State Folder ...
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How to change order of the subsites in the dropdown?
I created a 5 subsites under a team site and enabled show subsites option. So We can the subsites in a dropdown. They are automatically arranged in alphabetical order. How can I change that order?
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disabled dropdown has value reset
I have a dropdown in an edit form that is disabled via jquery/javascript. When I go in and edit an item/record, save it, and reopen it, the selected value in the dropdown gets reset to its default ...
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cascading dropdown - working but
I implemented cascading dropdown for City, State and Zip for a site collection. We are housing over 60 site collections and most of the now going through business process development. There is a huge ...
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Can't remove value from list item
I have a list that has a dropdown box as one of its columns. We changed the values in the dropdown box and now some of the items in the list refuse to allow us to blank out that column (so it has no ...
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sp2010 populate dropdown combo from ECT
I have absolutely struggled in creating a custom control to use an external data source to populate a dropdown combo list. Does anyone have any good examples of how to implement this? Is a custom ...
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How to add blog categories in drop-down menu of global navigation?
I am working on a corporate SharePoint site for my company that is made up of several blogs. I have the Global navigation set up to show each blog.
I am trying to add blog categories in the drop-down ...
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Custom Web Part's Active Directory connection only working from server
I have a custom web part that utilizes a dropdown combobox with items populated from AD. While it used to work, now I am unable to see anything populated in the dropdown unless I view the web part ...
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Problem with CheckBox in infopath 2010
Hi my name is Marcelo ... I have a problem with extracting data from a list checkbox , i selected 2 options (or more than two of several existing) and these disappear after ... then I need to display ...
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DropDownList with web part connection
I want to be able to display a dropdown list of titles in a web part and when I select an item have the details populate in another web part.
I can get this to work with a list web part where I have ...
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Adding/removing items to/from a DropDownChoiceField
I can't seem to manipulate the items displayed in a DropDownChoiceField I have that's tied to a field on the custom content type with big, really frustrating problems.
This field is only visible in ...
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Infopath 2010 SharePoint 2010: Cascading Dropdowns
I'm looking for a solution of the following question.
I have a mainlist with information about people.
List:
Name -- OrgaLevel1 -- OrgaLevel2
Wilson -- ... -- ...
I have also a list with the ...
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Get value from drop down using jQuery (lookup column)
I feel like this should be an easy one but am having trouble finding the answer here and via Google. Using jQuery, how do I retrieve the currently selected value from a dropdown in an ...
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Why does javascript on the page stop the drop down menu working?
I have just inserted a javascript world clock via a text doc and a CEWP.
However now that this is functional on my page I cannot see my drop downs from the top nav bar. It was working fine before I ...
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SP Foundation 2010: Drop down menu in alphabetical order
I did get the drop down menu work with the instructions given to me in HERE and now I have new problem with it: navigation bar is in alphabetical order which I would like to change to predefined.
So, ...
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Getting the value from the dropdownbox Event Reciever sharepoint 2010
I have an event reciever for item adding.
I'm using:
dropdwnvalue = web.Lists[properties.ListId].Fields["Names"].InternalName;
string selectedValue = ...
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Trigger workflow email when item created
We have a list called employee details, which has client name as one of the columns which is of the type lookup (from another list name columns value). So when the users create a new item in the ...
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How to add menu items for publishing iste
I created on publishing site. Now I want to add menu bar over there. But publishing site doesn't contain menu bar by default. How to add this into publishing site. I tried to add from v4.master page ...
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drop down choice column in new and edit forms require two click in ie
For a SharePoint 2007 site using internet Explorer (version 8 on a Windows XP system), drop-down choice columns require first clicking on a selection and then either clicking outside the drop down or ...
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Populating Drop down on the basis of User Group
I am developing the SharePoint Portal in 2010 where i will be using a Dropdown with values in it. These Values will depend on the group to which the user belongs.
For Eg.
If Drop Values are A, B , ...
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Dropdown goes behind QuickTime player
I currently have a QuickTime player on my site just below the global navigation. When I hover over some of my dropdown navigation items, their dropdowns goes beneath the QuickTime player.
What would ...
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Restrict item in List from modification if used in other Lookup or Cascading Drop-down field
Currently I have three lists.
The 1st list contains a single column.
The 2nd list contains two columns - one of the columns performs a lookup on the 1st list.
The 3rd list contains three columns - ...
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Cascading DropDownList in a web part?
Is there a standard way to implement this? Any solution would have to make use of AJAX. I am considering two possible methods at the moment:
Try to find a way to use the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit to do ...
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fill a dropdown with data from a list using client object model
how can i fill a sharepoint 2010 dropdown with data from a list using client object model?
i am trying to create an aspx workflow association form and want the initiator to choose an option from an ...
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javascript created choice field values wont save
Im using jquery and getJSON to populate a drop down list based on user input in a custom modified NewForm.aspx. The dropdown populates just fine but when the form is saved the selected choice value is ...
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publishing infopath drop-down value makes me choose a function
When I try to publish the value of an Infopath 2010 drop-down box to a SharePoint list, InfoPath forces me to choose a function (first, last, count, or merge). Why can't I just publish the ...
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JavaScript error with Cascading Dropdowns
Many similar questions have been asked but none seem to work.
I have Sharepoint 2010 and I have jquery-1.9.1.min and jquery.SPServices-0.7.2.min loaded into my parent site's Shared Documents. It ...
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Filter XsltListViewWebPart using Choice Filter
I have put choice filter for filtering records in XsltListViewWebPart.
but choice filter opens a popup box. and select one(it display like radio buttions with items) of item from it.
I don't want ...
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How to make dropdown link only visible to a certain group of users?
So we have a Management Meeting every two weeks and inside there is confidential information. Basically we want to make it so that link for this site/page is not even visible except to users within a ...
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Setting the value of a lookupfield(sharepoint dropdown formfield) in sharepoint 2010 list forms
How can i set the value of sharepoint form field dropdown box(lookupfield) in sharepoint list form when the form gets saved (using jquery)
note: the lookupfield (dropdown formfield renders as input if ...
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Item Editor form for list - use a lookup table for dropdown
We have a list on SharePoint 2010 called "Policies". It contains a couple of dropdown boxes which point to custom columns. These columns get their data by going to List Settings > clicking on the ...
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Drop down custom action
I've tried to create drop down custom action for some time without any success and Google also can't help me. Anybody could to share example how to use DropDown Element as custom action?
Thx for ...
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Populate a drop-down based off the contents of another using lists
I am very new to SharePoint and am having trouble with a few basics I thought were simple, it's a large change from my way of thinking about databases and presentation.
Anyways, I am required to ...
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Cascade dropdown for multi select fields
I have successfully implemented the SPServices JQuery open source solution but unfortunately it doesn't seem to support multi select fields (I mean the ones where you can enable "allow multiple ...
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Choice drop-down column doesn't display choices, SP 2010
We have one SP2010 site and in one library we have added two choice columns with drop-down menus. We have populated choice with names for each column. Columns are added to the document library but ...
