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Here you'll find all sorts of hopefully useful info on MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) and things .NET related. You might even find other useful gems if I get around to it.


You can contact me on the address below, but I won't guarantee a response 8-}

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Thursday, December 18, 2008 #

New Blog
Just to let anyone who might be interested know that my Blog has now moved to http://cs.vbcity.com/blogs/skullcrusher/default.aspx
posted @ 10:19 AM | Feedback (107)

Thursday, April 10, 2008 #

How to set SharePoint People Picker default value to current user through javascript

I found this great POST by the SharePoint Designer team for “Using Javascript to Manipulate a List Form Field”.  Unfortunately it didn't work very well for People Picker fields which is exactly what I needed to do today.

After some trial and error, and a bit of head scratching I finally came up with the follow which I thought I'd share, since when I was searching for a solution I found a lot of people in a similar situation with no solution posted.

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<script type="text/javascript">
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("fillDefaultValues");

function fillDefaultValues()
{
fillPeoplePickerWithCurrentUser('Submitted_x0020_By');
}

function fillPeoplePickerWithCurrentUser(pickerName)
{
//get the current user from the welcome menu
var currentUser = getCurrentUser();

//check to see that we've got it
if(currentUser != null)
{
//get the people pickers input div
var pp = getPickerInputElement(pickerName);
//set it to the current user if we've found it
if(pp != null)
pp.innerHTML = currentUser;
}
}

function getCurrentUser()
{
var tags = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (var i=0; i < tags.length; i++)
{
if(tags[i].innerText.substr(0,7) == 'Welcome')
{
return tags[i].innerText.substr(8,tags[i].innerText.length);
}
}
}

function getPickerInputElement(fieldsInternalName)
{
var result  = "";
var divs = document.getElementsByTagName("DIV");
for(var i=0; i < divs.length ; i++)
{
if(divs[i].id=="WebPartWPQ2")
{
var tds = divs[i].getElementsByTagName("TD");
for(var j=0; j < tds.length; j++)
{
var cellHTML = tds[j].innerHTML;
if(cellHTML.indexOf('FieldInternalName="' + fieldsInternalName + '"') >= 0)
{
var innerDivs = tds[j].getElementsByTagName("DIV");
for(var k=0; k < innerDivs .length; k++)
{
if(innerDivs[k].id.indexOf("UserField_upLevelDiv") > 0)
{
result = innerDivs[k];
break;
}
}
}
}
}
}
return result;
}
</script>
. . .
posted @ 9:08 AM | Feedback (150)

Saturday, March 29, 2008 #

SharePoint Color Picker field

Well it's been a long time since I last posted so thought I'd share with you how easy it is to make a custom field type within SharePoint.

Check out this New Article

And see for yourself.

posted @ 3:21 PM | Feedback (61)

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 #

Visual Studio 2005 is configuring the environment for first time use

Every now & then I would get the first time launch message appearing when I was starting up VS 2005, which wasted lots of time & I finally got around to googling a solution.

It turned out that it was a problem with using roaming profiles ( I switch between virtual machines quite often for various development requirements which I thinks what causes it) & I found the solutions in this MSDN article

But I'll post it here as well for future reference

When any one of the Visual Studio family of products is used with Windows Roaming Profiles, the first time launch message that says "Visual Studio 2005 is configuring the environment for first time use. This might take a few minutes." might appear on every session startup. This might cause unnecessary slowdowns in startup performance.

To resolve this issue

Click on the Tools > Options... Select "Import and Export Settings", and change the path under "Automatically save my settings to this file:" to a path that is NOT under the "My Documents" directory.

posted @ 9:25 AM | Feedback (121)

Wednesday, December 20, 2006 #

Get list of site users in InfoPath form

Having got past the last hurdle I then had a need for getting a list of all the site users into a Drop Down list which has spawned this second article

posted @ 11:40 AM | Feedback (78)

Monday, December 18, 2006 #

Get the Full user name in web hosted InfoPath Form

I had the need the other day to get hold of a users full name within a web hosted InfoPath form and although I could easily get hold of the login name I couldn't get hold of the users full name.

After some playing around I came up with the method I describe in this article which I hope someone else will find useful

 

posted @ 12:36 PM | Feedback (290)