SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 25: Using an Audit Trail by Creating List Items with SPServices

The grammar of SharePoint consists of knowing the components of the environment: sites and subsites; lists, document libraries, and surveys; content types and site columns; list items, columns and their types; webparts, jQuery, and workflows. Grammar increases our knowledge; we are able to converse in the vocabulary of SharePoint.

Of course, you’ll need SharePoint Designer to create the workflow.

We talked about the fact that it would be a major headache to try to automate filling the Title field with a workflow at that time.

But, what if you have three dropdowns that need to cascade? For example, Country-State-City. Or Work location-Group-Position.

It’s been awhile in this series since we looked at a DVWP. We’ve been building on an idea of using cascading dropdowns—where the selection of one dropdown limits the selections available in the next.

But you really want to use the Title column in the relationship list to make it easier to maintain later. I don’t blame you, especially if it’s something that is likely to change or have new entries in the future

We have to be deliberate in how we do this with SharePoint because the Title column is required by default.

SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 17: User-Managed Dropdowns – Creating a Relationship list

SharePoint: Extending the DVWP – Part 16: User-Managed Dropdowns – Loading Data