Represents a field in a list on a SharePoint Foundation Web site.
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Adding SPFieldCalculated to a Document Library not working
I am using this piece of code to copy Fields from Document Library "A" to Document Library "B". I have only one issue when adding a calculated. This is the code.
private static string ...
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Retrieve reference for list from Lookupfield
I have a sharepoint 2007 and in a document library eventhandler: in ItemUpdating, i would like to be able to retrieve the value by id's from lookupfield. So with other words i have to get the ...
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Retrieving the SPLookupFieldCollection with particular ID's
The situation is following:
I have this kind of string = 58;#value;#59;#value2;#60;#value3;....
So as you see this is just if i do:
SPFieldLookupValueCollection collection= new ...
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ItemAdding in document library
I have an issue with setting the field in item updating event in document library with SharePoint 2007.
I have following situation, I have a document library, and when i add a document based on one ...
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Changing enterprise keywords column title programatically
I'm trying to rename an enterprise keywords column in a specific list of a subsite. In a Feature Activated event receiver i tried to set the column's display name by setting its title using the ...
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How to display and get the value chosen in an User field?
I'm very new at Sharepoint and I faced to a trick issue.
Here is the situation :
in an .aspx.cs file, I've created an EventHandler called btnValidate_Click, raised on a click on a button. In this ...
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Dates and times in Properties vs Fields
I'm trying to roll my own archiver for SharePoint. I always try to let the underlying object serialize itself. Only when it fails do I try to use .ToString(). Anyway, while inspecting the Properties ...
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Set SPBuiltInFieldId.WorkflowInstanceID value
I start worklfow programmaticaly on SPListItem (custom ContentType).
When i try to save all fields but "WorkflowInstanceID", its ok. But,
item[SPBuiltInFieldId.WorkflowInstanceID] = ...
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External lists: Field GUIDs always empty?
I want to turn an external list into a DataTable using the ID/GUID values of external list's Fields as the DataTable column names; however, I've noticed for the external list I'm using, all of the ...
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How to programatically tell if a field is a taxonomy / managed metadata field?
I am going after SPList.fields and getting the collection of fields...
I would like to eventually return only the fields that are managed meta data. Any ideas on how I can do this?
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How to Disabling SharePoint TextField Control Programmatically?
I'm developing a user control containing textfields bound to my list SPListFields and I'm using this user control twice with two different modes ( Edit or New).
In my Edit mode I want to disable a ...
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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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How to retrieve Users and Groups seperately from a “Person or Group” column via C# code?
I have a field in the discussion list, which allows the initiator of the discussion to specify the people to share the discussion with.
This field is typed as 'Person or Group' that allows selection ...
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How to set a UserMulti field via a UserField Control?
I have a list similar to the usual Tasks Sharepoint List and I introduced the field assigned to as a multi user field like this (I have read somewhere that with Mult option should always be set to ...
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RichTextField vs NoteField class
I'm about to create a field called details so I was thinking to make it a NoteField then I discoverd RichTextField.
And I found out that RichTextField inherits from NoteField which is a text box for ...
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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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Using PowerShell how do I change the column ordering for a SharePoint List
Been trying to search for the answer to this, what I need to do is re-order the fields of a SharePoint list and propagate that change down to 300+ sites (should have used a content type, but oh well)
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SPListItem.Update Not working
So I have this really simple function which updates a couple of fields on two different lists (one is a document library)
The thing is on the document library does not updates any of the fields I need ...
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SP 2010 Metadata and Crawled Properties
I'm creating a new custom list in code and when complete, the list looks fine. When I look in the Metadata section, in Crawled Properties specifically, I see most (if not all of my columns) under the ...
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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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Programatically add SPFieldChoice (with Choices) to List
I have a list that I want to add a choice field to programatically. I also want to specify the choices. Here is the code:
var fieldChoice = (SPFieldChoice)list.Fields.CreateNewField("Choice", ...
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SPField not visible on default view when SPList created programatically
I'm creating an SPList item programatically. Everything goes fine, I add a list, I add spfields to it.
SPList list = (SPList)oWeb.Lists[listName];
SPField libraryNameField = new ...
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How to update field name for a list?
I am creating custom lists(fields,CT,List Def and list Instance) A and B with visual studio. I have site column called "Status" i have used those column name in ListA and ListB. Suddenly i need to ...
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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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What's A Field Group?
I need to create a field programatically, but the field has a required "Group" property. What is this property? What does it do/change? and what's a sensible value? MSDN as usual, failed to enlighten ...
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Sharepoint how to add field to list where field with such name already exists?
I have sharepoint list 'Events' with field Location.
I am trying to add from web existing field with same internal name from other package.
var fields = contentType.ParentWeb.Fields;
SPField ...
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owner field value disappears when coping document to another SC
On RootWeb of both site collections I have created same User field (owner). I mean same user field becuase I used same ID (GUID), name and everything. Then I add the field to a content Type and add ...
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Field display name / static name / title confusion
The msdn documentation for SPFieldCollection.Item[String] says
Gets the field with the specified display name from the collection. In Microsoft C#, this property is an indexer for the ...
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EditForm - custom control and updating field values
I'm using a custom rendering template on a list's EditForm. I created a UserControl with a asp:GridView and I would like to use it to insert mulit lookup field values (the standard multi lookup field ...
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Comments fieldlink not visibile
Here my code to add a field link of comments field to a content type
SPField field = site.RootWeb.Fields["Comments"]
if (field != null)
{
SPFieldLink spFieldLink = new SPFieldLink(field);
...
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difference between item[] and item.fields[]
I want to retrieve let's say the title field of my item so what's the différence between doing these acces methods :
SPList myList = properties.List;
string mytitle1 = ...
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SPFieldCollection TryGetFieldByStaticName bug?
I had expected that if TryGetFieldByStaticName succeeds and returns a value, there would be an SPField in the item that has a static name equal to what I used in the TryGet... call, but no? I.e. can ...
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add field directly to a Document library or via a Content Type
What is differents between adding a field (Site column) directly to a document library or via adding the field to a content type and then add this content type to the list?
Because fields directly ...
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New SPField shows in the view of my SPList but doesn't appear in any forms (edit, new)
I add a new column to a SharePoint list (the list is built on a content type) like this:
SPField textfield = list.Fields.CreateNewField(SPFieldType.Text.ToString(), "new column");
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why does the ReadOnlyField hide the field in forms?
i have a field that i want to make not editable for the users. its a field of type text.
I have a read about doing it with javascript and content editor webbpart, but i want to do it ...
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full name of the user in a User Field
I have a list which among other fields contains a user field, shows domain\username. Is there a way to show full name of the user in a User field?
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Modifying XSL for multi lookup field
I'm trying to create custom XSLT for a multi lookup field, based on this article.
When changing disable-output-escaping to yes I can see the html I want to modyify:
<a ...
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What is a good way to determine via server object model if a field supports multiple values?
When looking at an SPField object, how can I tell if it supports multiple values?
I.e. a Choice field that is displayed using Checkboxes, a Managed Metadata field that allows multiple values, Person ...
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Try Get Field with client object model without error
Question regarding the client object model. I wrote some client script for a procedure, but i don't know, how can I determine if the list or item has the field available or not?
For example:
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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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ContentType.FieldLinks.Add() issue with hidden and required
I have a feature that does the following in the feature activation Code :
Creates a new SiteColumn (Type=Text, Hidden=False and Required =True)
Set the french version of the Name (using ...
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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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Problem with visualization SPmenuField in SPGridView
I have created SPGridView and added one SPMenuField as the first column and some BoundFields. Then I added MenuTemplate to the first column. But there are rectangles with white color border (look at ...
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Field required in Content type, but not in my list
I don't know why but when I try to bind a list with my content type, fields having a status to "Required" in my content type are not Required at all in my List.
I'm binding the field with this ...
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UserMulti Field not allowing multiple inputs
I am trying to add a muliiple user site column using the following:
<Field
ID="{FC2612C2-1C60-45C1-949A-A49BECD8DB02}"
Name="test"
DisplayName="test"
Group="test"
Type="UserMulti"
...
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Updating a SPFieldMultiLineText field
I have an SPListItem. I have a field on the item of type SPFieldMultiLineText. How can update the value of that field?
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Find content types for given column
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfield.listsfieldusedin.aspx
$web = Get-SPWeb http://”sitecollectionurl”
$column = $web.Fields[“Column Display Name”]
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Create custom SPFieldLookUp that allows multiple values
I am pretty new to creating a custom field tupe and I have recently come across a need to create a custom SPLookUPField that allows multiple values.
The main requirement is to change the way the ...
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PowerShell error when comparing the fields titles
I've wrote a simple script which will loop through all the webs in all the site collections store all the field id's into the hashtable next with their display names. Later interating
throught lists ...
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How to identify if the list field come from web or site col?
I have a following task in sharepoint 2007 to identify if the list fields come from the parent web or site col, this i'm planning to do with a powershell script.
So what I want to do is to iterate ...
