My name is Alexander Bautz, I’m 37 years old and have worked with SharePoint for 4 years. I’m in no way a SharePoint- nor a Javascript-expert, but i believe i can share some interesting things i have learned about SharePoint.
I hope you find something useful on my blog!
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I posted this in a thread on eggheadcafe.com:
I am using MOSS 2007, and I am trying to have it so when a user puts the cursor over a field in a form they need to fill out, text will show explaining what is needed in that particular field(and not the defailt text which just redisplays the title). Ultimately, I would love to bind each field to a coresponding description located in a ‘field help’ list. The list has only 2 columns; a name column and a description column. I only have access to SP designer 2007. Hopefully I gave enough info for someone to help me….I’m stumped.
and someone left this response:
Under General Settings, you can select the option that says, “Show Detailed Tooltip in MouseOver Event”
But i am not sure how to configure the popup contents.
And you can use Javascript to show content on mouse over as described here,
http://spjsblog.com/
I checked out your site, and you have very cool stuff, but its not quite what I needed for my issue. I was wondering if you ever had this need arise and if you had a solution. Any help or direction would be great.
Do you know how to find the value of WorkflowStatus type columns? I see your js to grab most of the other types… is this just a url type?
Hi Alexander,
I hope you don’t mind but I nudged Mark Miller at Endusersharepoint in your direction. Your header solution is huge and needs to be shared… all to your credit!
Charlie Epes
Buffalo, NY
Charlie,
Feel free to spread the word to others!
Tom and Jeff,
Sorry for not replying – i must have missed out on your posts due to some e-mail issues (not receiving alerts on new posts). Both requests are in fact something i already have done. I will try to find time to write about it.
Alexander
Hi Alexander,
Many thank for sharing your SharePoint solutions with us! So far I have tested the header, choice field wrap, and mouse-over codes and everything has worked flawlessly.
The beauty of the internet is that there are plenty of generous people sharing their code and tips – however, it is extremely rare to see solutions presented in such a clean, simple and concise manner – and to see quick code updates to implement feedback from comments.
Thanks again – you rule!
Marc
Toronto, Canada
Hi Marc,
Thank you! – I’m glad you enjoyed my blog – feel free to make requests on stuff you would like me to write about.
Alexander
Hi Alexander,
I have one problem which I can’t find a solution anywhere but am hoping might be possible through the magic of javascript.
I am looking to trigger a page refresh upon the completion of a workflow.
My problem is that my work-flow updates many fields on a newly created item based on specific criteria entered in the new item form. Currently, users need to manually refresh after a few seconds to see the impact of the workflow but this is not ideal. I read that a time-based auto refresh can be used but most of time a refresh is not required so I was hoping for a one-time refresh based on completion. I figure the last workflow step could used to set some sort of dummy refresh variable to 1 that javascript calls and then refreshes the page and then resets the dummy refresh variable to 0. Perhaps the call could be based on timer but this way refresh is only when necessary (just my basic idea so far). If you have any ideas/solution you could share I would really appreciate it. Also, is this best place to put requests? If not, please let me know for future. Thanks,
Marc
Marc,
My thoughts goes in the direction of my script on Redirect from NewForm to EditForm or custom page.
You could use the first part of this script to set a timer and then “redirect” to the same page to refresh it after a set number of seconds.
To have it actually check the status column before refreshing would require you to explore the second part “redirect from NewForm to EditForm”, but you would have to edit the query to check the status column for a certain value – looping – until it is the right value – and then “redirecting” to refresh the page.
Alexander
Thanks Alexander – the Redirect script is a great solution. Funny thing is that yesterday I actually read through all of your posts and noticed the redirect solution and successfully got it working. I have this new item form set up redirect to a page that thanks them for the submission and gives various reminders, etc. and then provides a link to return to all items view of the list. Having the page redirect seems to provide enough time for my simple work-flow to complete. I will look into the timer as well. Awesome tip!
Marc
Hello Alex, do you know of a way I can show field descriptions on the dispform?
I have done something similar here – see if you can adapt the code to work in Dispform.
Alexander
Thanks but, I don’t know how to write code, I wouldn’t know where to start.
Hi Alex
I love your posts and I use to check every day to see your update just like checking mails and facebook. This a request to have dynamic Site Map using jquery is there any Possibilities to have please advice
HI,
This might be possible. Describe it in a bit more detail here:
Requests
Alexander
Hi Alex,
Im using SPJS Charts for Sharepoint and its ace (The cats pyjamas). However, im pretty new to this and im pretty stupid.
I am able to create filters based on ‘Choice Fields’ but I am wondering if I could create a filter based on a text field in the list that im using. Is it possible? Im rubbish at coding 2..