In common scenarios, there are linked lists that need to be included as hierarchical comboboxes in your forms. For example a typical Country/City scenario would include 2 lists. Countries (ID, Title) Cities (ID, Title, Country) where the Country field is a lookup for the Country List. In order to declare the comboboxes for these […]
Available options: Choice Control (Single Selection) Declare a new ComboBox or LookupPicker control. Set the Target Field Name and in the Lookup Details tab, set the Lookup Static Values property adding all the required values concatenated by semicolon (;). For example for a rating field : Low;Medium;High During initial form customization, the form designer identifies the […]
The DataEntryGrid control is used to allow users define a field structure and store complex information inside a multi-line text column formatted in XML. In many cases, there is a requirement to keep this information in a separate list instead of storing an xml formatted value in a list column. Users need to add the […]
In order to provide values to Sharepoint Managed Metadata Columns (available in Sharepoint 2010) a set of three controls are provided: The Managed Metadata Picker Multi Managed Metadata Picker Managed Metadata Textbox All of the above controls can be bound to a column of type ‘Managed Metadata’. The very same controls can be used to Enterprise […]
The Hyperlink TextBox targets SharePoint columns that store hyperlinks or picture urls. In contains 2 textboxes. One for the actual URL and one for its description (the same way it appears in the default SharePoint forms). If no description is provided by users, the url is used for the description part. A button is available […]
The PeoplePicker and the MultiPeoplePicker controls are used to retrieve and select user or group entities from SharePoint or the Active Directory Listing. Depending on applied settings, these controls can retrieve data from SharePoint Groups or perform ActiveDirectory queries (the same way that SharePoint loads users and groups). Any of the available options can […]
The DocumentList control is used to load and manage documents of a Sharepoint Document Library. The control can also update document attributes at the same time it uploads a document, thus providing an easy way to “relate” documents to the underlying record. There are cases where the list item attachments is not an adequate solution since they cannot […]
The CheckBox control is used commonly to present the user with the ability to gather a set of true or false values that aren’t mutually exclusive. It can contain a check mark or be unchecked (empty). Any of the available options can be used. The CheckBox does not provide any Lookup options since it cannot […]
The MultiChoiceCheckBoxes control allows the user to select a single option from a group of choices. This control is a Lookup control meaning that it can either contain static values or load its values from another list. Any of the available options can be used. If the control is bound to a choice column, […]
The MultiRadioButton control allows the user to select a single option from a group of choices. This control is a Lookup control meaning that it can either contain static values or load its values from another list. Any of the available options can be used. If the control is bound to a choice column, […]