sharepoint-designer

How do I sync a list on a site from a list on a subsite in SharePoint?

Our group has a main site and a subsite dedicated to our projects. Each project has a project lead and a completion % associated with it. We have a list on the project site that goes to each project's dedicated subsite within the project site. I want to duplicate the list from the project site on the main site, where any changes or ad...

Creating tooltips for each field in Sharepoint form.

I want to create tool tips for each part in a form which employees have to fill in a share point web page. When users move the mouse cursor on each field (Title, description, department etc.) the related tip will be automatically became visible as a simple pop-up (tool tip) and summarize what they should write there. and when the mouse c...

sharepoint 2007 webpart designer for visual studio

Is there a designer for SharePoint 2007 WebParts in Visual Studio? I downloaded Visual Studio 2010, and see there is one for SharePoint 2010... but right now we are writing parts for 2007. Alternatively, what is the overhead for using the ASP.NET developer, and porting the results to a SharePoint WebPart? ...

Problem attaching DVDropDownList to a form in SharePoint Designer

In a SharePoint WSS 3.0 site two linked lists eg Project and Tasks. New tasks can only be assigned to open projects. Therefore in the new tasks form I need to filter the project drop down list to display only projects with a 'Status' equal to 'Open'. Following these instructions in SharePoint Designer I have: Created a new form Insert...

How do you remove a site from Sharepoint Designer?

I would like to use Sharepoint Designer 2007 as an html editor. I have a web site with a lot of files in a folder on my hard drive. I do not want Sharepoint Designer to make a web site out of this. I just want to use Sharepoint Designer to edit the html files, locally. If I ever make a mistake and click on a tool for Sites, such as summ...

Updating a listitem in an ASPX page in SharePoint Designer

Hey All, Right now I'm using SharePoint Designer to create a new aspx page. I am using a data view to display information from a list. One of the fields in the list is a choice field. I was wondering if there was anyway that I could display all of the other fields but allow one field in the list to be edited on the page without adding a...

Data view web part throwing error

Hi I'm using a xslt based dataview webpart the steps i have taken to create a data view webpart is that added a list view webpart on the page Modified the toolbar property to show fulll toolbar open the web page containing above list view webpart in sharepoint desginer and converted it to xslt based webpart (to make further changes i...

How to automate cc to original discussion board subject creator on sharepoint?

Hi everyone, I have a sharepoint server 2007 with sharepoint service 3.0. I have both incoming and outgoing services on. Currently, for every e-mail that comes in, it'll create a subject within a discussion board and forward me a copy. When I post a reply to the discussion board it'll append to the discussion board subject but I really...

How to get current Item in Custom Form Action Sharepoint Designer

On custom edit page of list item, I want to do the following - On clicking Form Action Hyperlink [DataView Control], custom form action will fire to update a item hidden field [Status]. I already tried the following - Passing @ID to the work flow but didnt work - Create a duplicate ID column and updated it with the ID on Item Creatio...

Custom Display Form with Custom Workflow button

I have created a new custom list form that will show 4 fields on the page from a Custom List called "Shipment". I have added Form Action button that I would like to run a custom action that is set inside of a Workflow. Currently, the form displays the fields for "Manifest Number", "Pickup Location", "Delivery Location", & "Scheduled Pick...

Stopping the workflow if during approval process the outcome is "Rejected" in SPD

If a custom WF in SPD contains several Approval process steps regardless of the outcome of the previous approval process Sharepoint launches the next one. I am trying to change this so that the workflow is terminated if during the 1st approval process it is rejected. ...

Problem importing from XLS as list in Sharepoint Designer

Get "Unexpected Error" when trying to import XLS as new list in SPD into sharepoint 2010. Actual import takes place via browser at the following url:new.aspx?ListTemplate=SpreadsheetImport Any ideas? ...

Problem with EMail action in SPD 2010

Any ideas why EMAil action would not send out emails? Outgoing SMTP is configured and is sending out the usual notifications. However custom email via the EMail action is not sending emails when used inside custom workflow. SPD is 2010 and Sharepoint version is 2010 ...

XSL - How to disable output escaping for an attribute?

I've had the following <a> tag: <a href="http://myserver/_forms?url={@FileRef}&amp;amp;id=5"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt; One of the files is called "File's got apostrophe.xml". The output of the XSL is: <a href="http://myserver/_forms?url=/blah/File&amp;amp;#39;s got apostrophe.xml&id=5">...</a> The problem is that the apostrophe is HTML-esca...

Paging To The End Of A Data View Web Part

Hi all! Hopefully you can help me with this. I've displayed an Announcement web part on a page with 20 items. I opened up SharePoint Designer 2007 and set the paging to 6 items. I've added a little bit of (OOB) functionality so that I have buttons for START, PREVIOUS, and NEXT. These work well without any problems but I'm wondering how...

Localize a list's Custom EditForm.aspx in Sharepoint 2010

(I'm a starter in the sharepoint world) See screenshot below. In the default EditForm.aspx, the title is translated automatically. But this custom editform is obviously always displayed with English labels. The Editform was created by just doing "add form" in the List Properties screen in SPD. What do I need to get the same translati...

How to access Sharepoint List Items using an ID

I am currently working on a nice table that displays the items in a list of "Tasks" on a dispForm page. Each Task is created and initially given a ProjectID depending on which project the task is for. The ProjectID is the actual ID given to the "project" when it is added to the list, therefore it is not actually a parameter in the list o...

changing default names for infopath forms in custom workflow

in SPD when infopath is used to customize the task init. form the names are picked which are not at all helpful. IS there a way to rename these from either Infopath or Sharepoint or SPD? ...

sharepoint 2007 workflow trigger

Hi, I have an initial workflow in Sharepoint Designer that triggers whenever an item is created and also whenever an item has changed in the 'Employee' list . Within second workflow I am updating the 'Employee' list and the workflow above is triggered. Is there any way I can check in the intial workflow if the item has been updated by...

passing list item id as workflow parameter without code

Hi, I am using Sharepoint Designer 2010 and in there am trying to build an aspx wiki page with dataviewwebpart which will display a list. In this view I wish to have a button against each list item which would trigger a workflow for that list item. Upon searching I got to gather that I need to pass the list item id as a workflow paramet...