Comments on: Pre-filling fields on EditForm.aspx

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:09:31 +0000

There was (not sure if there still is) a problem with AfterUrl being empty in ItemAdding.

Mentioned here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spitemeventproperties.afterurl.aspx

There was hotfix for it, apparently.

I think I might have checked this and found that that was the case in our system; that the AfterUrl was always empty in ItemAdding.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:01:34 +0000

Out of curiosity, is there a reason you used BeforeUrl instead of AfterUrl?

For example, if someone uses Web Folders to move a file from one document library into this one, the BeforeUrl will be the previous location, while the AfterUrl will allow you to use the same code.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:29:22 +0000

Ah, well, the IsInheritable function is one I inherited from my colleague. For us, all it does is check if the column in a particular column group; you may well have your own logic as to what site columns should be used in this value inheritance. Heck, maybe you want ALL columns to inherit if they match! If so, just have that function always return ‘true’.

It should work with a people picker field. We’re reading the internal value as it is stored from the parent folder, and saving it to the child. I can’t see any problems with people fields over any others.

By: Brad Young

Brad Young — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:28:51 +0000

Wondering how this would work, or if it would for a people picker field. Also, what does the IsInheritable function look like? I seem to get an error on that function and not able to figure that out. Thanks in advance.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:07:22 +0000

Yes, this is in production and works. I think you may have missed something, though.

ItemAdding is fired after the user hits ‘Upload’ be before the item actually appears in SharePoint. This is before editform.aspx is shown.

ItemAdded is fired after the user’s item has been put into SharePoint, and in race with EditForm.aspx being displayed.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spitemeventreceiver.itemadding.aspx

As they’ve noted there, the item’s details aren’t available in ItemAdding as the item doesn’t exist yet – and it must exist before the EditForm.aspx will be displayed.

By: Greg Sansom

Greg Sansom — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:58:22 +0000

Hi,
Did you ever actually get this working? ItemAdding is fired AFTER the user hits save, not before the page is loaded… Could I have missed something?

By: Karine Bosch

Karine Bosch — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:39:55 +0000

This is an interesting one. Thanks for sharing!
Karine