sharepoint-designer

Workflow to copy Item A to Item B, then modify a field in B

Hello all, I'm very new to SharePoint. I would like to create a Workflow in SP Designer 2007--with SP Server 2007--that copies an existing item (A) to a new a item (B) in the same list, and then updates a field in B based on properties set when a user manually initiates the workflow. I have played around with the "Copy List Item" work...

Sharepoint's "New Folder" doesn't ask for a required field.

I am using Web Part Connections to filter documents in a documents library in SharePoint. To do this, there's a column that is required, which I've named "related contact." Here's my problem: When I go add a New Folder (instead of just a document) SharePoint only asks me for a title for the Folder. The "related contact" column (which is ...

Sharepoint Designer 2010 won't display lists of libraries

Not quite sure what I've done to screw up SPD2010 (was working), but it displayed Sharepoint Designer cannot display the item What you can try: Click refresh ... blah Most likely causes The file has been deleted from the site The site is encountering problems I can't see anything related in event viewer. I think is w...

DataFormWebPart accessing previous versions of an item in WSS3.0

I am running WSS3.0 and have a custom list which contains versioning on a couple of fields. When I click on an item and I view the item page I see the history of all the fields which I have made changes to. This works fine as expected. I have also created a page using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer and using a DataFormWebPart ...

.NET SharePoint development, what do I need ?

Question: I'm an ASP.NET developer since about a bit more than a year now. I'm thinking about changing the employer sometime in the future, and I've seen familiarity with SharePoint development as a requirement on many good job offerings. Unfortunately I'm not (yet) familiar with SharePoint, so I wanted to know the following things: 1...

filter dataview by user id using sharepoint desinger 2007

i don't know if i can explain this good. i want to add a data view in my wss3 site using the sharepoint designer. this dataview has the vacation days of an employee. now by using windows authentication my user log in to the wss3 site. the employee open a page where he can view his vacation days. now i want that dataview to show the ...

Create folder in document library using SharePoint workflow

Hi all, I want to create folder inside my document library based on other document library in the root. And I want to run this workflow on new document library creation. So let say I have 4 document library: Help News Doc Archive I want to create folder inside "Archive" Document library when New document library is created. Help...

custom css file in sharepoint online won't update

Hi all, I am working on an intranet in Sharepoint online. I have added a custom css file and included it in the masterpage, after the default stylesheets. In the sourcecode I can see it clearly and I can follow the path to its intended file. Earlier I had no problems to check it out, edit in Sharepoint designer, save it, then check...

Error publishing workflow in SharePoint 2010

When publishing a workflow in SharePoint 2010 Designer I received the following error. Errors were found when compiling the workflow.The workflow files were saved but cannot be run. Check For Errors indicated the workflow was fine ...

Custom Workflow Activity - Update UI when property changes

Hello all and thanks for reading. I am rather new to WF programming, so I apologize ahead of time if my question doesn't make sense. I am attempting to code a custom workflow activity for use in SharePoint designer. So far I have gotten the designer to succesfully display my custom action, along with the dependency properties I have re...

How do I join the current item in a list to items in another list?

I've got a list of items in a list, say issues, and have linked to these from another list, say subIssues. Using sharepoint designer 2007 i have successfully linked the 2 lists on the dispForm.aspx page, however it simply shows all the joins. I need to link it to the currenty item, i.e. the item ID that is currently being viewed. So...

In Sharepoint, how do I update a task directly from a link in an email?

I'm just starting to use sharepoint designer and realised there's a lot that can be done to extend the basic features in sharepoint. We have an email alert sent out when a new task is created (by the user) and I want to customise the email so that it also includes a link called 'Assign'. When clicked, I want this link to automatically ...

Sum up a calculated column's values for each user in Sharepoint 2007?

Hello, I've been looking around for quite some time, and I'm not entirely sure how to accomplish this in Sharepoint 2007. I'm trying to create a web part view that takes the entries of a particular data source, groups the entries by the user, and then sums up a calculated column from said source. I've found similar tutorials online ab...

Using SPD Workflow to set Target Audiences

I am using Sharepoint Designer to set a list field called Region to one of our six regions and the Target Audience field on the list item to a matching sharepoint group called "ESG-R region-name" where region-name is West or Northeast or Central etc. The lookup for this is off our team contacts list and the region entered there for eac...

Sharepoint create new web programmitically Exceptions

I custmized a sharepoint site and take a template of it, before that I made a webpart that can create a new site of that template. Before custmize the site it was working and after that it give the following exception Invalid URI: The URI scheme is not valid Can anyone help me Plz? ...

Using SharePoint's Data Query Webpart to link two lists

I have two SharePoint Lists: A & B. List A has a column where the user can add multilple references (displayed as hyperlinks) for each entry to entries in B A: B: ... | RefB | ... Name | OtherColumns.... ----------------- ----------------------- ... | B1 | ... B1 | ......

Content Editor Web part is not showing "Rich Text and Source Edit" options int he browser

Hi, In my sharepoint 2010 desiner project I am not getting displayed of "Rich Text and Source Editor" options for Content Editor Webpart . The more surprising issue is if I run the project on my local server, the web part is displayed with all the options, but if I run the same project on the remote server, the fallowing options are mis...

Sharepoint workflow - help please!

Dear all, I am new to sharepoint and workflows. I need some help. I am trying to do make a condition (using sharpeoint designer) which says "if there is any engineer whose status = Available, assign the task to that particular engineer. Also, change the engineer status to unavailable after assigning the task. " please help what steps...

Displaying List Item in Workflow Task's Edit Form

I have created a workflow using Sharepoint Designer 2007 using "Collect Data from a user" activity which has created a Task Content Type and its Edit Form (ASPX file). In this ASPX file I want to show couple of fields from the List Item on which Workflow is running; which will help the user filling in the Task Edit Form. Is it possible ...

Sharepoint 2010 - Where do I put my CSS, how do I link to it from the master page?

I have installed sharepoint 2010 on a single machine in farm mode pointing to a db on another server. I would like to start dabbling into branding the site by doing something that I initially thought to be trivially straightforward, link to a custom CSS from a SharePoint 2010 master page. I have uploaded a custom css (Let's call it cu...