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field type that has been custom developed and not provided out-of-the-box

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May I add a custom attribute in SPField SchemaXML to create

Could I add a custom attribute (MyCustomAttribute="true") in SchemaXML of SP.Field and create it by REST API? <Field Type="Text" DisplayName="AwesomeField" MaxLength=&...
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SharePoint Designer workflow doesn't show any custom fields

There's a list (kind of a catalogue) of subsites, which I've created a couple of years ago, and it has about 15 custom fields and a workflow to manage the list item lifecycle. Today I've tried to ...
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Is it possible to extend SPFieldUrl to have more properties like url or description, to create a custom field type?

Url field type has more than one property : something like url, description. I want to know that how can I extend url field type(or some other field type that have more than one property) to create a ...
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Is it possible to add custom fields in metadata for site and lists of MS Share Point?

We have a requirement to associate custom metadata while creating site or lists. We tried exploring the SharePoint documentation and were able to add this for List items, folders and files but did not ...
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Setting a custom view based on folder contents

We are in the process of rebuilding our entire SharePoint site, using yes/no fields and custom views are going through each document library and setting a yes/no value on each document depending on if ...
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Join two Lists with Where Condition in a Joined List

I am trying to create the Caml query for the following Scenario: I have two Lists: DocumentApprovalRequest DocumentApprovalComments Both the Lists has the column "DocumentNumber", I want to join ...
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Create data adapter with web application feature in SharePoint 2013 to access custom field type data in Microsoft Office products

I have created a custom field type by inheriting SPFieldLookupclass to extend the capability of standard lookup columns. It is working as expected in SharePoint lists and libraries. In SharePoint ...
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Does changing regional timezone settings alter the "Modified" and "Created" fields on every list to fit that new timezone?

I realized that I was entering data into Sharepoint when the timezone settings was PST rather than EST. I changed it, but now it's taking a while for the automatic datetime fields ("Modified" and "...
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Error when trying to access site columns "Field type BambooKBRichText is not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete this field. "

I am working on a sharepoint famr 2013 professional, and inside an enterprise wiki site collection, when i tried to access the "Site columns" to create a new site column i got this error:- now i ...
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Sharepoint List's Custom Field value appears empty in ssrs report when run in sharepoint integrated mode

I have a sharepoint list that contains custom field(its is developed as .wsp solution), its a file upload control and two rendering templates 'display' and 'edit' templates are defined. 'Display' ...
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Sub Columns in SP 2013

I have a list set up with several columns. One of the columns, "Area of Focus", has several options to choose from. I would like to set up a list to make a Sub Column, "Tactics", so that when an ...
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Is there a possibility to insert multiple hyperlinks to into the same field

Is there an option on SharePoint / Info path to choose to create a field that will enable to insert multiple hyperlinks on the same field instead of creating another field for that?
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Custom field type column editor in Sharepoint designer

I would need some help that i was not able to google it and if there is somebody who could help me that would be great. I successfully created a custom field type Now what im looking for is some ...
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Optional Field in SharePoint Online Doesn't Allow Blanks

First time coming over to the SharePoint area here. I'm experiencing an issue with our company's team site. We've set up custom managed metadata fields which use a closed term set. Changes cannot be ...
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Filter list items using custom field type in REST API

I have a custom field type created by inheriting default SPFieldLookup type field. I have a SharePoint custom list with these type of fields. I want to fetch list items from this list using REST API. ...
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Is there an enumeration for field properties on Field creation?

I want to create a CAML for creating fields. There are some properties that could be different. So the XML at the end looks something like this: void CreateField(string name, bool isCharacter, bool ...
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Custom field type from SPFieldLookup - item values are not appearing in List view

I have created custom field type with SPFieldLookup as a parent class. Using my custom field type, I can able to create custom lookup type columns where source columns are of types: Choice and User ...
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create a Custom field Type for sharepoint online/ office 365

I need an custom option (custom field type) which can validate input that it is email(just for an example) or not by just selecting column type. Please look the attachment for more information where I ...
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Customize displaying field in list view

I have a custom field for storing an attachment name. I'm trying to display url for this attachment on list view instead of just the name. I've tried to overide GetFieldValue in field definition ...
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Custom List in C#

What I want to do is create a list with value checks and dynamic drop-down lists. I know it is possible to create custom columns, but I need custom columns which are depending on each other. For ...
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Update Custom Field Type Field by REST API SharePoint 2013

I have a REST api to update the different fields of Item in the list $.ajax({ url: projectSiteURL + "/_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('MyList')/items(10)", xhrFields: { withCredentials: true }, ...
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Use REST odata webservice to update a task's custom field in Project server

I've figured out how to update a Task's basic fields via the OData Rest service using POST (X-HTTP-Method=MERGE): /ProjectServer/Projects('{#project}')/Draft/Tasks('{#Id}') The post content is a ...
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How to add addition column setting property for a Single line of textbox or any predefiend sharepoint column type

How to add additional custom properties for the column under Additional Column Property as shown above on pic for predefined type such as Single line text or multiple lines of text etc. so that I can ...
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System.Service.ServiceActivation exception on SVC deployed in ISAPI folder

I am using this codeplex code to develop advanced lookup. It mostly works fine till deployment. But when I tried to use it, on the list form it threw error in jquery file. Below is the error snapshot. ...
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Update custom field type without having to remove the column and adding it back

I have a custom field type that I use in SharePoint 2013 lists. The custom field type is built using C# and JS and it extends the built-in SPFieldMultiLineText. When I updated the RichTextMode ...
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SharePoint 2013 List Workflow with Custom Field

I am currently working with a SharePoint 2013 List Workflow (SPD Workflow). On my list, I have a custom field called 'Image', which allows user to upload image from the list directly, without needing ...
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Which time job picks picks up the new custom fields

I have created a Custom Field type and deployed it. I have noticed it takes some time the New field to appear on the new column form, somewhere from 30 mins to an hour. I could see the deployed xml ...
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How to Display Version of Document Template?

I apologize if the title is unclear, but I couldn't think of a better way to explain the question concisely. For the record, we are running SharePoint 2013 on-premises. Basically, I am trying to see ...
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Inserting the fields value to SQL Database

I have Form that i created in infopath and published it to SharePoint 2013 Could it be possible to insert the field value to SQL Database? Any help is really appreciated. Thanks in advance
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Passing a value to a custom JSLink field type

I'm creating a custom field type for Sharepoint using the JSLink method. This field will be used in New List Item / Edit List Item forms. What I want to do is to allow a user to set a custom ...
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JSLink custom field type not working in a form created by SharePoint Designer

I have created a custom field type for a SharePoint 2013 list using the JSLink method. It is basically a rich text editor that uses Ckedit.js. It works fine with SharePoint's default new/edit forms ...
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How to create Resource with custom fields

I need to create resources which might have custom fields. I've encountered the issue that, if the custom field is mandatory, then I get an exception after running context.ExecuteQuery();. This is my ...
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Export libraries and documents into filesystem preserving fields

I'm exporting some DOCX documents from site and subsites to filesystem, I would like to preserve: the site/library/file structure in the form of subfolder hierarchies fields (latest version, original ...
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Get project custom fields Project Online using Javascript

I am currently working on Project Online 2013 and I am developing an app with use of Enterprise Custom Fields where I need to list all the custom fields that have project entity type alone (not task ...
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NewDocSet and JSLink

I'm creating a custom field type and use JSLink for rendering this field in forms. Unfortunately, when I try to create a new Document Set, my .js file is not attached to the page and field rendering ...
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XSLT template for custom field not working

I have a custom XSL transform for a Text column and it works fine. Here is markup: <xsl:template name="FieldRef_Text_body" ddwrt:dvt_mode="body" match ="FieldRef" mode="Text_body"> <xsl:...
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XSL: How can I personalize Content By Query Web Part?

I'm doing my first steps with SharePoint and I don't have any idea how to show the number of comments of each entry of a blog in a different page in a upper level. I guess I have to use a "Content ...
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How to add columns to Relevant Documents Web Part?

The client has a custom aspx page that displays to users files that have not been checked in (marked by an icon), version number, user that the file is checked out to (marked out), Library location, ...
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How to change list column title using xsl in sharepoint 2013?

I'm creating custom field type - lets name it 'MyCustomType'. I need to change its column title in List View. I tried to use xslt-transform in my fldtypes_MyCustomType.xsl with no luck - nothing ...
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Scope custom fields to Site Collection or Site

Is there any way to scope a custom field to a particular site collection or site?
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Custom column for SharePoint 2013

I want to create a new field type for SharePoint 2013. It should be for the large lookup list, in edit or new form it'll be represented by a combobox with jQuery for selecting choices. Do you have a ...
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Unable to define a choice field

I've to create with Visual Studio 2012 a Document Library for SharePoint 2013. I've started defining the unique field in an empty element: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Elements ...
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Change configuration options of a custom field

Is it possible to make a custom field and create additional customization options for when you add the column to a list? If so, how?
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How to find the lists which are using custom columns in MOSS 2007 environment at web app level using powershell?

I have deployed a solution which creates a custom column/field to the entire web app. But the solution doesn't contain any features. Now I want to find the lists where that custom column is used. ...
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Customize rendering of custom field types

How can I customize rendering of a custom field type in SharePoint using server side code? I searched on the net but I am getting examples with csr technology i.e. JSLink. I want to know how I can do ...
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Custom Field type for SharePoint 2013?

I have a scenario in which i have to create a custom field type in my sharepoint 2013 environment. i tried going through a few examples online, i browsed thru various links and followed the content ...
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JSLink and lookup field problem

I am trying to make a cross site lookup field. So for now I made javaScript file and overrided the JSLink parameter. I want to made it clear for sharepoint and followed clientforms.debug.js practice....
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Get Lookup table value via REST

I've got a project server app in which I hava a custom field that gets populated through a lookup table I've previously filled. What I want is to get the value of this custom field using the REST ...
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Get project custom fields (Project Server)

I am trying to access, in a project detail page, the project context via Javascript to retrieve the data of the custom fields. But my problem is that, when I try to access all the data it only shows ...
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Create a site-column of type user, multichoice and multiuser using Sharepoint Client Object Model

I'm trying to create site-columns with following types: Text, Note, Number, Choice, User, MultiUser, MultiChoice I've implemented it for all the types except for User, MultiChoice and MultiUser. Can'...
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