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Setting multiple forms for the same List/ContentType based on conditions

Sometimes in Sharepoint we have to make different forms with different fields for the same list depending on some field values. This feature is easily implemented with the button Customizations. By default when a form is customized for the first time, the first customization is automatically created with no condition. If the form remains without further customizations, […]

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Designer SL, Knowledge Base, PowerForms Siverlight

How to use the Designer

It is very simple to change the position of the controls on any form. Click on Design Form and the view of the forms will change.Now you can view all the forms controls, drag any of them and drop it in a new cell. When you drop the control in an occupied cell, it automatically generates a […]

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Designer SL, Knowledge Base, PowerForms Siverlight

Setting multiple forms for the same List/ContentType based on conditions

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Designer SL, Knowledge Base, PowerForms Siverlight

How to use the Designer

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

Setting multiple forms for the same List/ContentType based on conditions

Sometimes in Sharepoint we have to make different forms with different fields for the same list depending on some field values. This feature is easily implemented with the button Customizations. By default when a form is customized for the first time, the first customization is automatically created with no condition. If the form remains without further customizations, then it will be loaded with the same fields in every record.

If the designer wants to create a different form, that will be loaded under specific conditions, he should copy the Default Customization and create the apropriate condition as shown below.

In this example the first condition (which is blank) is the Default one. After writing the new condition in the Textbox (“{Launched}”=”1”) and clicking on Copy button, we created a second customization which currently is a copy of the default. Now we select the new customization and click on button Select. The form will open and we can start designing it from the beggining. The new form will now open every time we want to edit or add a new record and our condition is fulfilled.

The condition can be editted from our Form Designer by clicking the second tab Options .

The syntax that shoud be used is “{FieldName}”=”Value”. We can also use the operators and, or and functions like nn(),nnus etc. for numbers. In the above example we have a boolean field (Yes/No) named Launched and we want to alter the form checking if this field is checked or not.

The result of this condition is shown below.

Form with Unchecked

Form after Checking field

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

How to use the Designer

It is very simple to change the position of the controls on any form. Click on Design Form and the view of the forms will change.Now you can view all the forms controls, drag any of them and drop it in a new cell. When you drop the control in an occupied cell, it automatically generates a new row and drifts the other rows down.

At the top of the form you have the options to Save the design, Add a new tab, Add a new section to the selected tab, Exit without saving, and Hide or Delete the selected controls (they can be multiple controls).

You can edit one specific control by clicking the button that is on the right corner of the control.

The control properties window will appear and all the properties of the control can be edited from here.

On the right corner of every control you will also find a set of arrow buttons that can be used to increase or decrease the columns or rows that the control is occupying.

On the right of the form designer the toolbox appears. It has 3 sections Add Control, Hidden Controls and Unbound Fields.

You can drag a control from any of these sections and drop it in your form.

In the first section all the possible controls of PowerForms are listed.

In second section the Hidden controls are listed.All the controls that you choose to hide with all their properties are here and can easily reused in the forms in the future. Their values can also be used in other visible controls for validation reasons or in calculated fields.

The last section contains all the fields of the list or library that are not used in the form and remain unbound.In that way you can easily find a new field an d by dragging it in the form you can create automatically a new control for it.

August 13, 2017/by Konstantinos

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