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Sunday, May 31, 2009

jQuery for Everyone: Collapse or Prepopulate Form Fields

You may have seen the previous version of this script. At any rate, my goal was to create a script that required very little configuration and allowed prepopulation of any standard form field in SharePoint. This time, I’ve improved the look of “locked” fields as well as created a way to close or collapse a field, all from the URL.

For more information, examples, and an example web part, go to http://spff.codeplex.com/

Paul Grenier

View all entries in this series: PaulGrenier-JQuery for Everyone»
Entries in this series:
  1. JQuery for Everyone: Accordion Left Nav
  2. JQuery for Everyone: Print (Any) Web Part
  3. JQuery for Everyone: HTML Calculated Column
  4. JQuery for Everyone: Dressing-up Links Pt1
  5. JQuery for Everyone: Dressing-up Links Pt2
  6. JQuery for Everyone: Dressing-up Links Pt3
  7. JQuery for Everyone: Cleaning Windows Pt1
  8. JQuery for Everyone: Cleaning Windows Pt2
  9. JQuery for Everyone: Fixing the Gantt View
  10. JQuery for Everyone: Dynamically Sizing Excel Web Parts
  11. JQuery for Everyone: Manually Resizing Web Parts
  12. JQuery for Everyone: Total Calculated Columns
  13. JQuery for Everyone: Total of Time Differences
  14. JQuery for Everyone: Fixing Configured Web Part Height
  15. JQuery for Everyone: Expand/Collapse All Groups
  16. JQuery for Everyone: Preview Pane for Multiple Lists
  17. JQuery for Everyone: Preview Pane for Calendar View
  18. JQuery for Everyone: Degrading Dynamic Script Loader
  19. JQuery for Everyone: Force Checkout
  20. JQuery for Everyone: Replacing [Today]
  21. JQuery for Everyone: Whether They Want It Or Not
  22. JQuery for Everyone: Linking the Attachment Icon
  23. JQuery for Everyone: Aspect-Oriented Programming with jQuery
  24. JQuery for Everyone: AOP in Action - loadTip Gone Wild
  25. JQuery for Everyone: Wiki Outbound Links
  26. JQuery for Everyone: Collapse Text in List View
  27. JQuery for Everyone: AOP in Action - Clone List Header
  28. JQuery for Everyone: $.grep and calcHTML Revisited
  29. JQuery for Everyone: Evolution of the Preview
  30. JQuery for Everyone: Create a Client-Side Object Model
  31. JQuery for Everyone: Print (Any) Web Part(s) Plugin
  32. JQuery for Everyone: Minimal AOP and Elegant Modularity
  33. JQuery for Everyone: Cookies and Plugins
  34. JQuery for Everyone: Live Events vs. AOP
  35. JQuery for Everyone: Live Preview Pane
  36. JQuery for Everyone: Pre-populate Form Fields
  37. JQuery for Everyone: Get XML List Data with OWSSVR.DLL (RPC)
  38. Use Firebug in IE
  39. JQuery for Everyone: Extending OWS API for Calculated Columns
  40. JQuery for Everyone: Accordion Left-nav with Cookies Speed Test
  41. JQuery for Everyone: Email a List of People with OWS
  42. JQuery for Everyone: Faster than Document.Ready
  43. jQuery for Everyone: Collapse or Prepopulate Form Fields
  44. jQuery for Everyone: Hourly Summary Web Part
  45. jQuery for Everyone: "Read More..." On a Blog Site
  46. jQuery for Everyone: Slick Speed Test
  47. jQuery for Everyone: The SharePoint Game Changer
  48. JQuery For Everyone: Live LoadTip
 

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5 Responses to “jQuery for Everyone: Collapse or Prepopulate Form Fields”
  1. Andy Burns says:

    You may find this interesting – I’d a need to prepopulate a form field and then hide it and the ‘Content Type’ drop down list for certain content types.

    http://www.novolocus.com/2009/05/18/use-jquery-to-populate-and-hide-fields-in-an-editformaspx/

    I also needed to remove options from the Content Type drop down for when it was visible. I don’t know if that might be a useful enhancement? Possibly a bit of specialist requirement…

    I like the idea of a library of functions for this sort of functionality. Makes a lot of sense.

  2. AutoSponge says:

    @Andy,

    Good ideas. I’ve also received some feedback about validation enhancements. Maybe I can upgrade the initial release in the next couple of weeks before SPTechCon.

    Thanks,
    Paul

  3. Brian says:

    I’ve really been enjoying your series on using JQuery within Sharepoint! This is an interesting method and I was able to get it to work but have a need to include the fields I wish to populate/hide directly within the CEWP instead of using URL query strings. Any ideas?

  4. SPbb says:

    Hi PAUL,

    This is ang owsome JQuery script.. BIG THANKS..

    I have something here that this script I think having problem on converting..

    Ex.
    Men’s
    Right one.
    (Men%E2%80%99s)

    Don’t understand this
    (Men%u2019s)

    Any idea why?

    thanks!

  5. Tony says:

    Hey Paul. Thanks for this! I downloaded the script, uploaded into a script library on our site, and create a web part out of it. Now I just have to drop my jQuery web part on a form, then drop the spff web part right under it and, DONE!

    So far I’ve used this to:

    1) create project tasks from support requests (across two different sites)
    2) make a copy of a project task.

    Lots more ideas. Your solution let’s me solve problems! Much appreciated!

    Tony


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