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

By: SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 35: Putting it All Together | EndUserSharePoint.com

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:06:19 +0000

[...] make data entry and modifications easier for the user, we’ll set up some site columns, load them with data, and create relationship lists between the site columns (and load those one of [...]

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Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:01:59 +0000

[...] you’ve been following along as we’ve created site columns, loaded the column data, created a relationship list, and loaded the relationship lists. But you [...]

By: Jim Bob Howard

Jim Bob Howard — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:21:54 +0000

Oops! So much for abstracting the concept. ;)

Yes, I’m using this with Departments, but my department names and locations won’t be familiar enough to readers to make the hierarchy obvious. Which is why I switched to States and Countries for demonstration purposes. Should have made the graphics consistent. ;)

Blessings,
Jim Bob

By: George W

George W — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:19:40 +0000

I’m sticking with it, but I wonder what do States and Countries have to do with Department?

Shouldn’t you populate the Department list with names of Departments?

By: Jim Bob Howard

Jim Bob Howard — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:57:55 +0000

Thanks for sticking with it, Nathan. ;)

By: Nathan Wells

Nathan Wells — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:55:12 +0000

Seems a bit bizarre to do a step-by-step walkthrough of how to create a site column when the previous two articles have been detailing how to customise pre-save actions on form action workflows. Anybody capable of following article 14 would surely know how to do this already. I’ll stick with it though, it will probably go somewhere useful.

By: Jim Bob Howard

Jim Bob Howard — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:51:47 +0000

Dear Kevin,

This and the next 3-4 articles are not unique to the DVWP, but they will culminate in being used on the Edit Template of a DVWP.

Since cascading dropdowns haven’t been covered extensively on EUSP, I needed to include these steps so that later ones would make sense.

Hope that helps.

Blessings,
Jim Bob

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:03:59 +0000

How is this article related to DVWP??