Using Created and Created By in Forms

[Keith Hudson]

I have a list in which I have changed the name of the “Created” field to “Date Requested” and the “Created By” field to “Requestor”. I would like to be able to place those fields on tabs within my DFFS form, but they do not appear in the field picker when adding a field to the tab. Is this expected behavior?

I am using the version of DFFS dated 2018-02-12.

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
Yes, this is sort of “by design” because these fields are not part of the fields available to use in a form. I guess I could make it appear in the field picker somehow, but you might be able to fix it in your form like this.

Start by adding a HTML section in the tab with the Unique ID “CreatedBy”.Then add this to the Custom JS:

(function addCreatedByToTab(){
    var b = [];
    b.push("<tr>");
    b.push("<td class='ms-formlabel'>");
    b.push("<span class='ms-h3 ms-standardheader'>Created by</span>");
    b.push("</td>");
    b.push("<td class='ms-formbody'>");
    b.push(spjs.dffs.beforeProperties.Author[0]);
    b.push("</td>");
    b.push("</tr>");
    jQuery("#dffsHTML_CreatedBy").replaceWith(b.join(""));
})();

Alexander

[Vidya]

Hi Alexander,

I tried the above customJS and getting this error, please see attched.

Thanks,
Vidya

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[Alexander Bautz]

Are you trying to use this in NewForm? – if so, the Author property is not available because the item hasn’t been saved yet.

Alexander

[Vidya]

Yes i was….sigh…thank you!

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