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10Feb 2014 by Charlie Nichols 1 Comment

Editing Text in a SharePoint List View or Data View

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[wp_ad_camp_1] [wp_ad_camp_4] Having Your Cake and Eating It Too SharePoint text fields (Multi line) have some limitations. In SharePoint, you can enable your text fields (of type Multiple Lines of Text) to keep a running revision history of all the changes in that field. This is great when you need to see the history of comments provided, for example. There are some limitations, however, that come along with that when viewing and editing text in a SharePoint list view. First, you cannot directly view the most recently text entered. You instead see a link to View items which just opens up the associated form for the item where you could see the text field and its history (not really that helpful). If you need to be able to show the most…

02Jul 2013 by Charlie Nichols No Comments

Determine whether an InfoPath form is for a new item or existing

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Determining whether an InfoPath form is for a New or Existing item Do you need to have a slightly different InfoPath form view depending whether you are showing an existing list item or a new entry? This turned out to be pretty straightforward. In my case I just want to show one of two submit buttons. One that said “Submit Changes” and the other that said “Submit New”, depending on whether this was a new item or existing. I created a new formatting rule for each of the items. On one of them, I triggered the rule when the created date was empty, which indicated that the item hadn’t been created (aka “new”). In the formatting section, I just checked the box for Hide this control. This is what I needed…