A form on a web page allows a user to enter data that is sent to a server for processing. Forms resemble paper or database forms because web users fill out the forms using checkboxes, radio buttons, or text fields.
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Permissions for List or Library Columns
Is there any way to give permission to a specific field of a list or library? I want one of my users for example cannot add or edit data in a specific column.
Can I set permissions to the form and its ...
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SharePoint Form - Advanced Validation Error Handling
Our company wants to create a more user friendly and branded way of handling user errors when validating InfoPath Forms. We would like to create a message box that essentially would be more ...
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How to develop “Form Builder” web part?
I want a Form Builder web part. This web part would create basic forms dynamically on the fly by drag-and-drop controls. These forms would send the form values as an email and/or store information in ...
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Limit number of people in Assigned To-field
My list uses a custom content type with a title, description and an assignedto-field that enables my user to select more than 1 person. However, I would like to limit the selected persons to a maximum ...
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Username() in infopath form return empty string on sharepoint workflow form
I have an infopath form loaded as an initiation/association form for a sharepoint workflow.
I added a text field wich I want to be prefilled with the current user username. I'm using username() to get ...
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Retention period for Document, List and Forms for SharePoint 2007
May I know if it is possible to set the retention period for documents in document library, items in SharePoint list and form in Form library without using the 'Information Management Policy Settings' ...
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Add description to the fields in newform.aspx and editform.aspx?
What's the best way to add a description to the fields?
e.g. I have a field called Location and I want to put description below it about how to enter data for it. I know I can customize these forms ...
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SP2010 Using Modal Dialog for Forms : Beginner Questions
So I am trying to figure out how to use some java script in order to use a modal dialog to display new item form. The below is what I have thus far, but its not working and I am not sure what portion ...
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How to Query a Form Library in SharePoint 2010
I have a SharePoint 2010 Form Library that will have multiple documents. I have one form that will be feeding/creating each of these documents.
Essentially, I need to have one document per each ...
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SP2010: How to start a workflow which is not related to a document or list item?
I'm trying to build a "list" which is comprised of a bunch of workflows. Example workflows would be: Travel, Reimbursement, Software Request. I would like to list these workflows and allow a user to ...
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Format XsltListFormWebPart with xsl style
I have a display form of an external list generated by sharepoint designer 2010. The editable webpart has this code:
<WebPartPages:XsltListFormWebPart runat="server" Description="" ...
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Sharepoint 2007 - slow site with low number of records
On Sharepoint server 2007, we have a service request site with 9000 records in it.
Clicking a new request can take 25 seconds before the blank form opens which seems very slow to say the least.
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Check if task has already been submitted on opening InfoPath task form and switching view to reflect so
I am trying to make my custom task form (of Visual Studio Sequential Workflow) to switch view to "Submitted" in case someone has already submitted this task before, since this task could be assigned ...
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How to make SharePoint fields mandatory conditioned on other fields?
For example, in a workflow task, I might have a master field called "Approve" which, if set to "No", makes it unnecessary to complete the rest of the form (and thus makes them non-mandatory). Is there ...
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Start a task from an InfoPath form?
I have an InfoPath form which is used for meeting reports. In these reports we want to start a task for a person who has to do something. The idea is that when a table is filled in a task is ...
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Using postbackurl with enctype=multipart/form-data
I have a form having one text field and one button all I want is to postback it to some other server. I have created an .ascx for it and I have added html textbox and asp.net button and using ...
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Custom edit form associated with edit button on list view
I have created a view from a list which I created. I now have an edit button link on this view and need to link it to a custom edit form. How can I do this in SharePoint Designer. I am using ...
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how to move multiple items into a listbox in infopath 2010
I have an infopath form that has two list boxes. I'm wanting to be able to add multiple items from one listbox to another. similar to this :
any help would be much appreciated!
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Placing CompositeFields for multiple list items on one form doesn't work as expected
In a workflow task, in custom edit form, i use CompositeField to render relevant fields current task item and for workflow item by setting a different context for CompositeField.
However if i put ...
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1answer
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InfoPath 2007 Web-based form to show different page views
I have created a web-based InfoPath form that have 4 views (a.k.a Page Views) - View All, Loan View, Price View and Location View.
May I know what buttons or settings I have to click or configure in ...
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What happen to the Person/Group Picker field's content when Person/Group is deleted?
In a InfoPath 2007 form, the Person/Group Picker control is often used to select person or group from a SharePoint Site and validate those users against a directory provider.
What happen to the form ...
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Update Custom Forms with Powershell
I'm trying to update custom forms of SharePoint lists in a large amount of SharePoint 2010 subsites with powershell.
I'm not quite sure what the correct approach is. The form itself can be found as ...
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SharePoint Daily Task Checklist
Really struggling to work this out in my head.
The requirement is as follows:
We have a checklist template, which I currently have stored in a SP list, containing 10 items (not tasks) for one ...
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Making DateTime fields ignore user timezones
We have a number of forms using a standard DFWP to serve up some simple forms. A few of these forms have datetime fields only showing the date portion. We're experiencing some issues where user A in ...
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how to show infopath form in an email
is it possible to have a form in an email? I'm needing to create a form that will be sent to a user based on a workflow variable. This email will have two field in it that will need to be filled out ...
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How to constraint InfoPath form page view to certain group of users
May I know if it is possible to set a constraint where certain group of users can see certain page view of a web-based InfoPath 2007 form?
Scenario:
I have 3 group of users - Group A, Group B and ...
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InfoPath 2007 Web-based form reading from Bar Code Scanner
May I know if it is possible to query InfoPath 2007 web-based form via a bar code scanner.
Scenario
I have a bar code scanner and a web-based InfoPath form. The InfoPath form contain one section for ...
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PDF forms for SharePoint
What are you thoughts on PDF forms for SharePoint instead of InfoPath forms?
Can PDF forms handle logics and rules like Infopath Forms?
What are some good 3 party tools for PDF forms for SharePoint?
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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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New/Edit click should redirect to custom form instead of newform.aspx and editform.aspx
i want to redirect to my custom form when i click on new button in sharepoint list and document libraries.Also , i want same behavior on edit click button.
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__redirect not working after __commit on Form Action Button
This is in Sharepoint 2007 -- Designer
I have written a Form Action button and it has the following Code:
<input type="button" value="Add List Item" name="BtnSave" onlick="javascript: ...
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SharePoint Server with Infopath, submit a form without knowing that your saving it
We are looking into using InfoPath with our current SharePoint infrastructure to submit easy non workflow forms that we currently are creating in asp and I have some basic questions I hope that you ...
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Can This Complex Form Built in InfoPath?
Hello all,
I am a sharepoint expert who is not very experienced in InfoPath. Now i have a requirement to move a paper-form into sharepoint.
So these audit forms will be managed on sharepoint ...
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Why won't the “New Item Form” create for an external list?
I'm using SharePoint Foundation 2010 and I have an external list created from an external content type. The external content type uses a WCF service as datasource.
The WCF service has only three ...
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Developing customized form and workflow with only visual Studio 2010
I am trying to duplicate a Domino workflow onto sharepoint 2010.
The domino workflow that I am trying to port over consist of many section, fields and button. As such I thought of using ASP.NET to ...
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Best way to present a list form to users?
Whats the best way to present a list form to users? We are just starting to convert some of our dead-tree documents into SharePoint forms and workflows. What is the best way to present these forms ...
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Creating Browser Enabled Form Without Using InfoPath
I'm relatively new and inexperienced with SharePoint 2010 development and I have a question that may sound a bit strange. I'd like to be able to create a Form Library that has entries opens into a ...
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Content Type drop-down missing on editform.aspx for a list
by default, editform.aspx is supposed to include a drop-down that allows the content type for a particular list item to be changed.
I am using the default form on a list and noticed that the ...
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How to open a form in a modal dialog popup using C#
I have virtually no experience with web development but now I need to create a web part for SharePoint 2010 and I am stuck.
The web part is supposed to find all content types derived from folder ...
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Disassociate InfoPath form from SP List for Edit Form Only
I have an InfoPath form that shows whenever I create a new item or edit a list item. Is it possible to use SharePoint's default form for Editing list items, but still keep a customized InfoPath form ...
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form validation
I am new in javascript. I want to validating a form with five columns.
FormDescription
My Form Contain 5 input fields and one submit buttom
I want following output
1.Initially submit button ...
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Lists: Display custom form depending of field value
In My list I have field called STATUS which can take 4 different values (A,B,C,D), now when user press "Edit" I need to show different Form depending of STATUS (eg Form1 if 'A', Form2 if 'B')
Can you ...
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BCS Date Only field on Update Form
I'm tasked with finding a method for Updating a field that is defined as Date in SQL, but rendered as DateTime through BCS (as there is no Date-only type). On the Update form, I only want a Date ...
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How to create custom login page for extended claims-Windows authentication based Internet sharepoint application?
1) I have a Claims Based Windows Authentication web application which is being used by my internal Active Directory users. (Intranet app)
2) Now I want to expose this to the Internet (by configuring ...
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How can I include custom content with a form element in a page?
I have been trying to use the HTML Form Webpart and going into the Source Editor...
Below if the form I am trying to paste in:
<FORM onsubmit="return CheckForm()" method=post name=ttc ...
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My browser enabled Infopath form does not open in my browser
We have created a simple form in Infopath and have published it in a new library on our Sharepoint site.
When we navigate to the library and click "Add Document" we get an error saying:
This form ...
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Force InfoPath to open in browser, from Tasks Hyperlink
My project team has created an InfoPath form for gathering information related to IT requests.
In the workflow we have created "Collect data from user" tasks.
When the user clicks on the hyperlink ...
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SPD 2010: Can fields be hidden by Conditional Formatting on NewForm?
I use content types to dynamically change which fields (columns) are initially displayed on the newform page. I am trying to have the fields change as the user is filling out the form. I was trying to ...
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Forms: Sharepoint or Infopath & SharePoint?
This is really more of a strategic question.
My company is looking at electronic forms in SP2010 (running a mix of InfoPath 2007 & 2010).
We currently run Office 2003 & MOSS2007 and run a ...
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Changing the value of a field in another List from a Form Library
I have the following scenario:
I have one SharePoint List - List_A and one SharePoint form - Form_A
List_A has two columns (ConfigItem and ConfigValue) and it contain a few configuration settings.
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