Event Receivers are triggered by certain events on either a SPWeb, SPList or SPListItem.
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What is the difference between properties.OpenWeb() and properties.Web?
I am developing an event receiver, using the ItemUpdating event, and I noticed that the properties parameter has an "OpenWeb" method, with this description:
Retrieves the Web site that is ...
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Event Reciever on specific list in sharepoint 2010
I am working on creating event reciever for a custom list in sharepoint 2010 using visual studio..how can this event reciever be targeted to a specific custom list ..in my case its customEmpList?
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How to know if another event / user is running on an SPListItem (Sharepoint 2010)
I have a Sharepoint 2010 farm in which is deployed my solution. This solution provides some "data mantain" of some content types. Let me explain:
Suppose I add a file in a document library: when I ...
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Workflow and EventReceiver execution order
I have an event receiver, and I'm capturing the "ED" events (Added, Edited). I also have a Workflow on the list that is triggered on Item Added and Updated. Does the workflow get called before the ...
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Is Calling base.ItemUpdating(properties); necessary?
In an event receiver, is it necessary to call base.ItemAdding(properties);, base.ItemUpdating(properties);, etc. at the beginning of your event handler?
I've seen people arguing that it isn't ...
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Client Object Model SystemUpdate
I need to have the SystemUpdate functionality from the Client Object Model. Is there any way I can do it since the ListItem.SystemUpdate() does not exist.
Another solution would be to disable the ...
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Creating a Site collection programmatically throws exception <nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr>
I'm migrating a SharePoint customization from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 (Win 2008), which creates the Site Collection programmatically. Problem is I'm unable to create the Site Collection ...
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How to add style library event receivers?
how can I add an event receiver to the style library ? (can't find any templateid)
thank you ;)
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How can I tell if a document is 'being published'?
I need to use the relevant event receiver to tell if a document is being published, is this possible? I will settle for has 'just been published' - i.e. I have no preference between itemupdating and ...
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How do programmatically determine when Approval workflow has completed
I have a list with 2x declarative approval workflows associated with it (the workflows themselves are copies of the OOTB Approval workflow and were built in SharePoint Designer 2010).
FYI: The ...
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Event Receiver behaving unexpectedly
I have created a list item event receiver(ItemUpdated).
When a item is updated in a list(for which event handler is attached),my code updates other items (may be more than 1) in lists in subsites.
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How to add event receivers to all the lists in a site collection?
What is the best practice around adding event receivers across all the lists in a Site Collection?
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Instantiating SPListItems in Event Receivers - Best Practices
In the MSDN article Best Practices with Event Receivers it is clearly stated:
Do not instantiate an SPWeb, SPSite, SPList, or SPListItem object within an event receiver.
The article goes on to ...
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Logged in user name in SharePoint 2010
I am trying to retrieve the display name('firstname lastname') of a user who logs in the SharePoint site.
When I log into my SharePoint site I could see at the top right --'domain/user name'. So when ...
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Get list of event receivers registered for a list created from a list definition
I created a list definition created from visual studio. I also have an event receiver specified along with the listtemplate feature. The idea was to have event receiver registered for all lists ...
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Event receiver in SharePoint 2010
I am working on creating an event receiver. Does SharePoint have a stipulation that the event receiver should be a farm solution or a sandbox solution?
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': <nativehr>0x80070002</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>
I have a feature. On the FeatureActivated event I am creating a list if it is not there. I also have an EventReceiver that in the elements.xml on the Receivers node has the attribute ListUrl. This is ...
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One Event Receiver for many lists
I have Event Receiver for document library. It is added in Elements.xml like this:
<Receivers ListTemplateId="101">
I would like to use this ER for all my document libraries. Do I have to ...
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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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How to get a field value of the item in ItemDeleted event handler?
I need to get the value of ListItem field in ItemDeleted event handler. Only value of one numeric field. But properties.ListItem == null. And AfterProperties, BeforeProperties also do not work.
Is ...
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ItemUpdating method for an item event reciever is called three times
I've creted an asset library for holding pictures and I've created an event reciever for the ItemUpdating event. When the item is updated, the method is called three times(!?!). I've noticed that two ...
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Access denied for BCS method in e-mail event receiver
I have a SPItemEventReceiver which does some stuff with an external list when a document is uploaded to a DocLib. I now wanted to have it also run when an e-mail is sent to that DocLib.
I could have ...
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Document in library: newly created from template OR uploaded?
Can I programmatically detect if a document in a library is uploaded or created with the "new document" button?
When a user uses the "new document" button, my ItemUpdated event receiver doesnt fire, ...
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Event Reciever firing twice sharepoint 2010
Hi I have a event receiver(item adding,item editing,item added), it was working fine before ...now it has started to fire twice...any suggestions?
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Item added or item edited Sharepoint 2010 event receiver
I am working on Sharepoint list form with 10 fields. The first time when I add the new item I fill in 8 values and id is generated. Next time I edit the form I fill in the one of the two remaining ...
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ItemUpdating not saving field values
A user has a list that has a couple fields that are often updated. He wants to store the prior values in some other fields on the item when the item is updated (yes, I know versioning would be ...
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Preventing users from deleting an item from a task list
I am using the ItemDeleting event receiver to prevent users from deleting items in a Task List.
Currently, my code looks like:
if (properties.ListTitle == "Project Intake Tasks")
{
...
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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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Dispose of SPItemEventProperties at the end of an event receiver?
Is there any need to call
properties.Dispose();
at the end of an event receiver? Would this prevent memory leaks? Is this unnecessary? Is it best practice?
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Detect SystemUpdate() in an event receiver
Is it possible to detect whether SystemUpdate() or Update() has been invoked in an event receiver?
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Requiring Event Receiver while creating new item
I have an event receiver(item adding,item added)..on a custom list..this event receiver creates an ID when a new item is created..so when i deactivate the event receiver and add a new item to the list ...
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Sending an email using sharepoint object model sharepoint 2010
i have been working on generating email in an event receiver using share point object model..i used the sputility.sendemail method..2 things are necessary in the email(email from and HTML body)..so i ...
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Event Reciever on specific list in SharePoint 2010 working in dev environment but not in production
I have created an event receiver (on item adding) using VS2010 in SharePoint 2010 targeted to specific custom list which is a globally deployed in the production environment.
This event receiver ...
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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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Using the ItemAdding EventReceiver to update multiple fields based on values from one field
I have a custom SharePoint 2010 SPfield of type SPFieldMultiColumn. The data in this column is stored in a delimited string, which is parsed and rendered in a readable format in most areas (list view, ...
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Will feature receiver get activate if user has no permissions to a site?
Here's what I need...User does not have access to a site (http://myserver/sites/MySite). When user tries to access they are redirected to ugly AccessDenied.aspx.
I was researching and found that ...
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Add file watermark as it's uploaded
I've been trying to add a watermark to files as they are uploaded to SharePoint.
I tried using several events:
ItemAdding, ItemUpdating, ItemCheckedIn.
In ItemUpdating and ItemCheckedIn the file is ...
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ItemAdding not firing when “Overwrite existing files” is checked for SharePoint Document library
I need to copy Existing file to A folder("Archive") while another file is uploaded with same file name to the document library.
Ex
I already have a filename "example.txt" in a document library. Now ...
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Connecting to WCF service from SharePoint
I have a WCF service that lives on another server that I am trying to connect to from an EventReciever in a SharePoint 2010 feature. I have gone through all the hoops of configuring the feature in ...
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Move a document from library after adding it
I am using the ItemAdded event to fill in a metadata field.
In the ItemUpdated event (after submitting the file properties diagog) - I want to move the file elsewhere.
However, I get an error saying ...
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Sharepoint development without Visual Studio on server machine
Till now I was doing Sharepoint development with Sharepoint server and Visual Studio on same machine.
Now there is a Sharepoint 2010 installed on my client machine with no Visual Studio installed.
I ...
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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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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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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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How to update SPListItem in ItemFileMoved?
I have a document library. In ItemUpdated I move the file to a different location (based on date) and I want to add some metadata in ItemFileMoved to the file's new columns (which I added). The ...
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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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custom email event receiver doesn't accept .msg file attachments
Environment is Sharepoint 2010. The issue I'm running into is essentially the one that occurred here: ...
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SPListItem.SystemUpdate(false) is still triggering alerts
Environment: SP2010 Enterprise, VS2012, c#, full server access
Simple question...
I'm using a console app to create sub-folders in a document library based on user input, then calling ...
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Event Receivers not added when installing wsp
I have a set of event receivers for a SharePoint 2010 content type and Library. Previously, these would install and automatically be activated when I ran a script to install the wsp solution. I dug ...
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How to find out page layout value in an event receiver for publishing page
I need to find out page layout on ItemUpdated from the SPItemEventProperties in a page library. What property value should I be looking for.
