Create New Document in directly in Library instead of just upload existing

[Brian Oster]

I have a vLookup for a document library and have configured a button to Add a new document which opens a dialog that prompts the user to upload an existing document from their computer. I display the documents in a Tab of the Parent item. This works great.

I would also like the ability to have a button (or some other method) that creates a new document directly in the library very similar to the default functionality in SharePoint for a doc lib when “New Document” is select from the files menu of the doc lib. Ultimately I would like to find a way to have multiple document templates for the library and allow the user to select “New Document” and then have some kind of drop down that would select among multiple templates.

[Brian Oster]

I may have found another thread that may do what I want.

Post #29668

[Alexander Bautz]

Great, I’m glad you found the other post.

Alexander

[Brian Oster]

So very close. I have it creating documents from my Templates Doc Lib and inserting into the target Doc Lib but I can’t

a) get it to link to the parent
b) set additional properties

Here is the relevant section of js:

` if (res.count > 0)
{
var item = res.items[0];
var uRes = spjs.utility.updateItem(
{
“listName”: targetLibGUID,
“id”: item.ID,
“data”:
{
“Project_x0020_ID”: getFieldValue(“ID”),
“Category”: “Special Instructions”
}
});

See attachment for vLookup Query Definition. I even tried hard coding the Project ID value just to see if it would work and it still would not set that property.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Brian Oster.

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[Brian Oster]

After debugging I found the initial problem. It appears it is not finding the inserted document object. The line “if(res.count > 0)” fails so it never trys to set the document properties. So spjs.utility.queryItems appears to not find the document.

var res = spjs.utility.queryItems({
                "listName": targetLibGUID,
                "query": "<Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef' /><Value Type='Text'>" + newDocName + "</Value></Eq></Where>",
                "viewFields": ["ID", "EncodedAbsUrl"]
            });
            debugger;
            if (res.count > 0) {
                var item = res.items[0];
                var uRes = spjs.utility.updateItem({
                    "listName": targetLibGUID,
                    "id": item.ID,
                    "data": {
                        "Project_x0020_ID": projectID,
                        "Category": "Special Instructions"
                    }
                });
                if (uRes.success) {
                    // Refresh vLookup table
                    jQuery("#vLookupManualRefresh_" + vLookupFieldname).trigger("click");
                    var a = document.createElement("a");
                    a.setAttribute("href", "ms-word:ofe|u|" + item.EncodedAbsUrl);
                    a.setAttribute("target", "_blank");
                    document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(a);
                    a.click();
                }
            }

[Brian Oster]

Never mind. Finally got it all working. Your example code from Post 29668 was all good. I had the Document Library GUID wrong.

[Alexander Bautz]

I’m glad you figured it out!

Alexander

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