Cannot associate event receiver with a particular document library

Question

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"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <Receivers ListUrl="Temporary/Forms">
    <Receiver>
      <Name>CleanUpTemporaryItemAdded</Name>
      <Type>ItemAdded</Type>
      <Assembly>$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$</Assembly>
      <Class>MeritSolutions.MAXLife.SP.CleanUpTemporary.CleanUpTemporary</Class>
      <SequenceNumber>10000</SequenceNumber>
    </Receiver>
  </Receivers>
</Elements>

When I run the code to debug, it doesn't work - SharePoint Manager 2010 doesn't show that there are any receivers attached to the Temporary document library. I know that the key is in the ListUrl="Temporary/Forms" line, but I can't get it to work. I tried with "Temporary", "/Temporary", "Temporary/Forms" and "/Temporary/Forms", but nothing helped. My document library is hidden; does that have to do anything with it maybe? My site is the site collection root site, i.e. http://spserver/sites/site1. Please help, thanks.

Answer 1

Remove 'Forms' from the Url, the ListUrl should only point to the document library.

Next, visit the library in the browser. The url is relative to the web site url. So if your library is at:

http://webapp/sites/somesite/subsite/Lists/Temporary then the ListUrl is Lists/Temporary.

Answer 2

This should work

<Receivers Scope="Web" ListUrl="Doc Lib Name">

Answer 3

Just to contribute eventhough it is closed.

Pay attention to this as you should supply the url of the document library and not the display name.

E.g.:
Document Library URL: http://myserver.local/deliverynoteinbound
Document Library Title: Delivery Note Inbound

For a document library your code should look like this:

<Receivers ListUrl="deliverynoteinbound"> //It should be the URL not the Title

And for a list it should be like this:

<Receivers ListUrl="Lists/somelisturl">