Comments on: Setting SharePoint Form Fields Using Query String Variables Without Using JavaScript

By: eru

eru — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:56:25 +0000

How can this work if you do not know the name of the field beforehand?
i.e. i do not know the that the field will be called “IssueID”.
A site manager might add it to a list as “TheIssueID” but my code would still need to work.

I think the above will fail in this scenario.

By: weatherman

weatherman — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:12:29 +0000

Thanks so much for this it help me big time, but I have one question. When passing a person’s name to a people/group column in the child list new form, I am getting an error. Is there a conversion that can be done? I can pass the domain/userid but the field will not authenticate it. any help would be appreaciated.

By: Vinoth Kumar

Vinoth Kumar — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:43:15 +0000

I have a problem in sharepoint.

We use publishing html to pass a url with query string like the below

http://domain.com/new.aspx?cname =Mike

firstly We dont know why the querystring not be assessible in new.aspx

and on the web browser the link shows as http://domain.com/new.aspx?cname =

is there any secuirty setting or state to be configured.

By: Shawn Miller

Shawn Miller — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:19:36 +0000

Is there a way that I can pass this info to an event?

Situation: Employee fills in signup information including name and employee ID. After filling out signup, I’m redirecting them straight to a calendar where they can fill in availability.

What I’ve found is that you can’t modify NewForm for an event (calendar) without breaking Recurrence, which I want to use. I would like to pass the name and ID to the event. Is there a way I can do that?

By: Khaled El Mansoury

Khaled El Mansoury — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:20:31 +0000

Hi,
Good approach, but how would I integrate this for a document library, where I would put a query string in the url to the upload form, then after the user has uploaded the document, the user is then automatically redirected to an edit form of the just uploaded document and there I want the value of a lookup column to be filled with the value passed in the query string. Then if the editg form is being accessed normally (i.e. edit item) then the value of that lookup column should of course show the current value for that particular document.
How would I achieve that?
Thanks in advance,

By: Vaishnavi Desai

Vaishnavi Desai — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:02:43 +0000

HI Mark,

That’s a good approach and I have tried doing that.
But the client requirement is to be able to just click on a link or an option on the list.

When the user clicks on that link or option, it will open up a form(template) for that ID# with all prefilled values for that item.

The user can make changes or submit the NewItem form, which will create a new item in that list with a different ID#.

There should be no user interaction to start the workflow.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Thanks,
Vaishnavi

By: Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:27 +0000

Vaishnavi,

In a similar situation I created a manual workflow to “clone” the original request in SPD.

Is this an option for you? User would go to request they wish to clone, execute the manual workflow, a copy of the request would be created, then the user would go in and edit as needed.

This is the most simple approach I can think of, if this will not work for you let me know and I’ll give it some more thought.

best of luck,
Mark

By: Nasir

Nasir — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:44:25 +0000

Hi Mark,

I never blame on your work. I apologize if I hurt you. In these days I am looking for one solution and I find that same material owned by different people. So little confused that who is the genuine owner. I really like your work and also regular visitor of this website.

Regards,

Nasir

By: Vaishnavi

Vaishnavi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:35:06 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your quick response.
Actually i think converting it to text box does not help, as i want to prefill the form, from an alreay created item in list.
Suppose,

Item #2 is created.
Now user wants to use #2 as a prototype to submit another request.
Then clicking on a link, it will open up a newitem page with prefill values for that ID#2 (as in EditForm.aspx).

User can change those values or use the same to create a new request.

Thanks.

By: Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:12:38 +0000

Vaishnavi,

I believe you should be able to follow the steps above for creating the new entry form and for every field you want to pre-fill, convert it to a text field and set the text=”" for each field.

If the fields are static you can just hard code the pre-fill value (ie text=”Active”). However, if the pre-filled values are dynamic you will have more work to do.