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Custom list. Custom New/Edit/View forms. Everything works perfectly... until the latest round of updates. Now if you Bingle this error message, you'll get about twenty possible causes that run the gamut from a known bug, an unknown bug, and fixed/not...
This is a fairly common request, but the solution is often missing one crucial point. To use a custom New/Edit/Display form on your list, proceed as follows: Open your site in SharePoint Designer. Right-click the desired List (under the Lists node) and...
This post is long overdue, but since the question keeps popping up on various SharePoint discussion lists, I figured I'd document the answer here (next time I can just post a link instead of typing the whole thing out again). In a SPD workflow, you cannot...
This came up today on the [sharepointdiscussions] list. A user needed to display a read-only field in a phone number format; it's pretty simple, but it may be just what you need. Assuming your list item contains a field called "Phone Number" (with a space...
Did you know that when you're working on custom Edit form and add an extra field via the Columns command, SharePoint Designer will sometimes add the field in Insert mode instead of Update mode? Yes, it will. Sometimes. The binding portion of the field...
Recently, a colleague came to me with a simple task and an inscrutable error. He just wanted to populate a text field with a querystring value. If you've ever done this in SPD, you know it's fairly simple: create a parameter, map it to a querystring value...
Yes, you can do this with an Event Receiver. You might be able to do it with a VS workflow, or possibly one of those fancy third-party tools... maybe not. But if you're a SharePoint admin with nothing but SharePoint Designer and you need to determine...
Having created this little video late last year, I finally figured it could use a link here. This is an often-neglected feature of SPD, which is a shame because it's pretty powerful. The above-linked clip walks through a simple calling of the Lists web...
It seemed simple enough. I built a custom New Item form. Naturally, it needed to redirect to another page after completion. Normally for a "return page" function, a "Source" parameter in the querystring will suffice, but that didn't seem to work here...
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