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Event Receivers are triggered by certain events on either a SPWeb, SPList or SPListItem.

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Single line of text field validation in Sharepoint 2010 list

I have single line of text field in a Sharepoint 2010 list. I need to validate the particular field. The user will enter the number by starting with I or F. How do I validate the field if the user ...
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disabling multiple fiel upload on picture library

How can I make my library picture one to disable multiple picture upload at a time. only 1 at a time is nice. I tried but getting context as null. not sure how to improve it myself. I also need this ...
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Sharepoint Event Recievers Feature Activation

I am trying to create an event reciever based off an example created by a previous employee. This event reciever is scoped for the site level and is a ListItem event reciever. I believe I have ...
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Help with Blog EventReceiver, not firing

Ok so I have a blog site and I need to change the name of the author of each post to 'Anonymous' after he saves the post. I created an EventReceiver project in Visual Studio and gave the URL ...
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Event Receiver which tries to create a Prefix will throw Security Exception

I'm trying to use an Event Receiver on a List to create a Managed Path with Wildcard-inclusion in the parent WebApplication. I tried to handle it with the following code (reduced to show the idea) ...
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Getting ItemUpdating Even Receiver to do the same thing as ItemAdding

I have a library that allows multiple folder content types. I am grouping the folders by content type but I don't want the group heading to say Content Type: whatever. Instead, I created a hidden ...
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Webprovisioned not fire

I have a code from external developer that creates site in list event receiver. public override void ItemAdded(SPItemEventProperties properties) { bool EventFiringEnabledStatus = ...
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Change displayname of a List with event receiver

I need to change the displayname of a list using "ItemUpdating". The source of the new name is the "Title"-field of the item which fires the event. Is this possible? I tried it with: if ...
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ItemUpdated vs FieldUpdated

I have a user request where a Document Library with Content Approval turned on, wants the name of the person who approved the document. So I created an "Approver" column and want to create an Event ...
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How can an InfoPath form get the Claims of the user who is logged in to SharePoint?

We have a document library that contains a list of proposals (InfoPath Forms). Users log in through SharePoint using Claims (Forms Auth, via an Extranet) who are from various organizations. The ...
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The URL is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistent file

public override void ItemCheckingIn(SPItemEventProperties properties) { base.ItemCheckingIn(properties); #region Automatic Scheduling ScheduledItem scheduledItem = null; ...
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How to update calendar item created by an other list?

Appreciate any thoughts on this: A user edits an existing list item to pick a date to select a project deadline. A custom workflow, initiated by that item change, takes that date and project title ...
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Exchange event receivers of lists

Recently i faced an interview question for which i am unable to find a suitable answer. I was given a scenarion to implement, which goes like this. There are two event receivers Ea and Eb, these are ...
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redirect to page after itemadding in list withlong run operation

after many checking about redirecting to page from event recievers I understood that my best option it to di it from itemadding event and not itemadded. that does not means that I can neglect the ...
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Redirect in Event receiver SharePoint 2013

My question was simple in SharePoint 2010 but in SharePoint 2013 is complicated! In 2010 I could redirect user by setting properties.Status and properties.RedirectUrl. Now RedirectUrl and ...
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How to assign a particular column values of sharepoint List A 2010 from sharepoint ListB 2010

I have two list in sharepoint 2010. In List A i have Assigned to field column(people or user group). In List B i have two fields Name and Email id column. I need the email id values of List B should ...
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Event Receiver site creation

I've got this eventreceiver that fires after an item has been added to a list. The eventreceiver creates a subsite from a template I created myself. The only problem is, every first time I try to add ...
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Changed event content type at parent now existing calendar lists content types are _hidden

I am new to SharePoint and I changed the event content type at the parent level. Now existing calendars list content types groups are _Hidden. The calendars also do not work now. Is there a way to re ...
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I want to execute workflow when new item is inserted

private void codeActivity1_ExecuteCode(object sender, EventArgs e) { SPSite objsite = SPContext.Current.Site; using (SPWeb objWeb = SPContext.Current.Web) { ...
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The security validation for this page is invalid error trying to add sharepoint approval workflow to List in ListAdded eventreceiver

What I am trying to do is to attach the OOTB sharepoint workflow [Approval Sharepoint - 2010] to each and every document library that ever gets created. To accomplish this I created a List Added event ...
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Access Denied when trying to set formdigestsettings in a list event receiver even when logged in as Farm Administrator account

I am trying to set the formdigestsettings to false within an event receiver (sharepoint 2010). So far I have tried to a) run the code with elevated privileges public override void ...
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timeout >1 event receivers

I have this custom list in my sandbox solution and when someone adds an item to the list the synchronous event receiver method itemAdded will call the spweb.webs.add method and adds a website. Now ...
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EventReceivers not firing at all (SharePoint 2010)

I wrote some code to do some things before and after an item is added to some lists. The solution is sandboxed. I have checked and confirmed, through power shell, that the event receivers are bound ...
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Event Recevier ItemAdded/ItemUpdated and Custom Workflow with Word Automation Service

I have created one visual webpart to convert selected word document to pdf using word automation service. Pdf is created successfully on each time when WAS timer job runs. I know we can not retain ...
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Event Receiver - Cannot access item from Document Library if the user changed the name

I have a library, that has versioning enabled. On that library is an event receiver that does stuff, on ItemUpdated :) Ok, if the user uploads a document, and does not rename the document during ...
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Remove entries from dbo.EventReceivers

Can I safely remove Entries in dbo.EventReceivers ? The Problem is that when i'm deploying a Solution i get on the Feature Activation many Errors in the SharePoint Logs like: ...
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deployment issue - List Event not firing

I'm facing 2 problems when I'm deploying my solution in QA environment. Scenario 1: I have written a feature (Feature 1) to create custom list (say List 1). When feature 1 is activated, List 1 is ...
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Object reference not set to an instance of an object inside Event receiver in Form library

here is the problem. I have a form library that uses Infopath as form. It has an event receiver. This was done by someone else. I was trying to get the beforeProperties, afterProperties or ListItem ...
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Using the SocialFeedManager object in remote event receiver

I'm trying to create a remote event receiver that will update the social feed of a user when ever he adds an item to a list on SharePoint Online. I've initiated the client context object using the ...
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Problem adding sharepoint group in list item on itemupdated event

I have this code below and I am trying to add a sharepoint group to an item in a list in itemUpdated event handler. the problem is that the update never happens. The problem is with this line of code ...
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Event Receiver update document content on ItemUpdating

I am trying to update a document in the item updating event receiver, but I keep getting the error: "The file IOF/This is a.docx has been modified by ....." I have the following code in my SP 2013 ...
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remote event receiver on sharepoint 2013 online does not working

Hello i recently started to developing sharepoint 2013 to my office365 account. The problem is that remote event receivers which I attach to deploying application do not work. I mean that they should ...
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Use application page as edit form on list?

I createad an application page and put it under /_layouts/, in the list definition I specified the edit form like so: <FormUrls ...
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Monotonically Increasing Counter

We need to do some calculation in an ItemAdding event receiver that uses a monotonically number. Because we need to use the ItemAdding event (rather than the ItemAdded event) we cannot use the item ID ...
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Sharepoint 2010 hosted web service works in browser but not event receiver

I have written a RESTful web service that writes calendar events from Sharepoint to personal exchange calendars. The web service is hosted in sharepoint. When I make the call using javascript from the ...
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Populating list columns when an event is fired in SharePoint 2010

I have created a SharePoint2010 list with 20 columns. which has 2 key columns cid and tid of the user. There is an application, whenever it is initiated a new row is created in the Sharepoint list ...
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List event receivers not triggered after quick editing/grid editing

I have a custom Sharepoint 2013 list with event receivers attached to it (adding, updating, deleting). However, it looks like the event receivers are not triggered when the user is adding/editing in ...
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Find a specific field on a site and the set it to “Required” in a EventReciever

I have created a EventReciever that will be activated when a site gets created. This site have a announcement webpart. When they click on "add announcement", newform.aspx pops up as a dialog and there ...
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SPListItem.Delete or SPListItem.Recycle, which one was called?

In an ItemDeleting event receiver, is there a way to find out whether SPListItem.Delete or SPListItem.Recycle was called? I would like to write different things to my log here...
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SPWorkflowEventReceiver with the Content Approval Workflow

I have a document library that has 'Content Approval' turned on (List Settings > Versioning Settings > 'Require content approval for submitted items'. I also have a workflow event receiver, utilizing ...
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Delete all list permissions and set Author as contributor (Event Receiver)

I wrote an Event Receiver on ItemAdded to automatically create a calendar (Template 106) from a ListItem (Title => Name of calendar). So far so good... Problem of all is, that I want to delete ALL ...
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How to remove duplicate EventReceiver entries

Lately i had a bug that time-to-time added duplicate event receiver entries in SPEventReceiverDefinitionCollection. So how do i easily enumerate and remove these duplicate entries?
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EventReceiver for 'Pages' library on multiple languages

I've made a EventReceiver that i want to attach to my Pages library. It will create a folder on a given Image Library for event pictures. I can say on the elements.xml of the EventReceiver the list ...
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Event Reciever ItemAdded fired twice

I'm trying to do some treatement after creating an item but the treatement is done twice because in my code after creating the item, I'm updating it , so the event reciever get fired twice: first when ...
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Custom Event Reciever For Document Library(sharepoint 2010)

I have a month column which is a choice column in my document library in the format specified below.. For eg. Jan 2013 I have the following requirements 1. The month dropdown should always have only ...
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Cannot associate event receiver with a particular document library

I am trying to develop an Event Receiver for a document library titled Temporary. I have modified the Elements.xml document to look like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> ...
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GroupDeleting event receiver in sharepoint 2013 [closed]

I have created custom GroupDeleting event receiver in sharepoint 2013. On deleting group, Properties.GroupName is null. I am not getting properties of group.
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Event Receiver when document body/content is updated

What event receiver is triggered when the content of an existing Word document is updated/changed? ItemUpdated works when the properties on the document are updated (e.g. changing a content type ...
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ItemUpdating event not firing on folder rename w/ Windows Explorer

I have an Item Updating event receiver that needs to fire when a document library folder is renamed. Everything works perfect when a user renames the folder with the SharePoint UI. However, if ...
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List event Item Updating is not firing

I have added a list item updating event to a document library but I cant see it running please tell me how to check if it is running, I also have put a log entry in the event receivers code but cant ...

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