Create Approve button within the editform

[David M]

Hello,

I’m using Dynamic forms within my SPD workflow in SP 2010.

For approvals, I currently have a radio button date field and also a comment field. Is it possible to have an approval button inside the form?

There is a post of approval buttons in the header which I’ve read, but I’m trying to see if it is possible to put one inside the form.

If there is a way to have an ‘Approval’ button, which then inserts the username and Time/date stamp into another field that would be ideal.

Thanks so much,

Dave

p.s. I’ve included a version of what the screen looks like.

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[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
If you want to insert the username and date by code and refresh the page (most likely in DispForm) you can add this code to the custom js textarea:

function myCustomApproveFunction(){
    var data = {}, today = new Date(), res;
    data.PeoplePicker1 = _spPageContextInfo.userId;
    data.DateColumn1 = today.getFullYear()+"-"+(today.getMonth()+1)+"-"+today.getDate()+" 06:00:00";
    res = spjs.utility.updateItem({"listName":_spPageContextInfo.pageListId,"id":spjs.dffs.data.thisItemID,"data":data});
    if(res.success){
        alert("Approved!");
        location.href = location.href;
    }else{
        alert(res.errorText);
    }
}

You must change “PeoplePicker1” and “DateColumn1” to your own field names.

Then add this to a html section in one of your tabs:

<input type="button" value="Approve item" onclick="myCustomApproveFunction();return false;">

If you however wants to insert this information when doing a “hand editing” of the item in EditForm (to automate filling the PP and the date picker) you can use a rule and the “Set field value” option.

Hope this helps,
Alexander

[Rich Rockwell]

Alexander, thanks for this.

I’m not able to get it to work. I click the button and nothing happens. When I debug it, I get the message “Object doesn’t support property or method ‘updateItem'” Any suggestions?

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi Rich,
The method “updateItem” is part of the spjs-utility.js file. If you are using an older version of this file you can try changing “spjs.utility.updateItem” for “spjs_updateItem”.

Alexander

[Rich Rockwell]

That was it! That worked. Thank you, Alexander. You are the best!

[Alexander Bautz]

I’m glad it worked.

Happy new year!

Alexander

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