We have to be deliberate in how we do this with SharePoint because the Title column is required by default.

SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 17: User-Managed Dropdowns – Creating a Relationship list

SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 16: User-Managed Dropdowns – Loading Data

SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 15: User-Managed Dropdowns with Site Columns

Four articles from now, you’ll have cascading dropdowns on your DVWP. And you’re list owner will manage the content and the relationships from SharePoint lists.

You could add the PreSaveAction() JavaScript section directly to the page in SharePoint Designer (SPD). You could even add it to the master page, if that made sense for your project. But, I usually add it to a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP).

As part of the series, Extending the DVWP, we’ve been talking about creating a workflow that fires from a form action.

As part of the series, Extending the DVWP, we’ve been talking about creating a workflow that fires from a form action.

In the last four articles, we’ve talked about creating a workflow from Dataview Web Part (DVWP) form action links. In the process, we’ve learned that you can pass Form Fields to the workflow, which is pretty powerful in itself.

You can now call a workflow from your DVWP and access the content the user just entered or edited.