Contents tagged with SharePoint Designer
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"The data source control failed to execute the insert (or update) command", or How to Make Your Workday a Bit Shorter
Custom list. Custom New/Edit/View forms. Everything works perfectly... until the latest round of updates.
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Nitpicking that matters: changing default forms on a SharePoint 2007 list
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:
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SharePoint Designer workflow workarounds: tracking individual column changes
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).
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Phone number mask in a DataView WebPart (DVWP)
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.
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SharePoint Designer does it again
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 should look like this:
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When SharePoint Designer has its own designs
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, and then use the resulting parameter name in your form field.
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Clunky workarounds that work: catching field changes in a SPD workflow (with no custom code)
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 if a field changed, here's how.
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SharePoint Designer Video: Binding to a SharePoint List via Web Service
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 service.
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SharePoint Designer Gotcha: Where's the "action" in my Form Action button?
It seemed simple enough.