Kendo Editor in SharePoint forms
In SharePoint Forms Designer 3.1.2 we added some interesting features. First, now Kendo-widgets detect your culture and use right format and language for date and time controls. So, it has become more...
View ArticleMore properties for fields and Kendo Date and Time pickers for dates
In SharePoint Forms Designer 3.1.1 we added a lot of new useful features and here is a short manual of using them.First, we added changing color, size, and style of font in field`s title and control....
View ArticleCross-site Lookup to a SharePoint list with more than 5000 items
Today, I wanted to demonstrate how to adjust Plumsail Cross-site Lookup fields for a list with more than 5000 items. As you might know, SharePoint has a constraint on a view that does not allow you to...
View ArticleCreating related items on a new item form via a non-grid related items control
In November we released a feature that allows you to create new items and link them to the current item on a new item form. Up until now, however, you could only do that with the related items control...
View ArticlePrinting SharePoint forms and exporting to PDF
In this blog post I will describe two new features that Forms Designer has received in the 3.0.7 release. You now have the ability to save your forms to PDF files (without help of a virtual printer)...
View ArticleProviding different forms for different users in SharePoint Online
If you want to create different forms to different types of users in Forms Designer for SharePoint Online, you have two options: use permission settings or use SharePoint groups. We’ll look at both...
View ArticleUsing a Cross-site Lookup to a SharePoint list with an exceeded threshold limit
In SharePoint there is a default limit of 5000 items that you can add to a list until you are unable to filter that list. For more information on this see here. What this means in practice is that you...
View ArticleUsing ink sketch control in a SharePoint form to place markings on an image...
You can use the sketch control of SharePoint Forms Designer to put markings on an image (note, it won’t add markings to the actual image file but rather it will visually place your markings on top of...
View ArticleDynamic filtering of the Related Items list on a SharePoint form
Quite frequently our customers ask us how they can dynamically filter their related items lists based on a value entered into a field on a form created in Forms Designer. In this post I will describe...
View ArticleAdd related items on a new SharePoint form
We are glad to introduce you our new feature that has become available in SharePoint Forms Designer 3.0.5: the ability to create related items inline and link them to the current item automatically,...
View ArticleInline spreadsheet-style edit mode for the Related Items control on a...
Forms Designer has just gotten a new feature: the related items control is now able to do inline spreadsheet-style quick editing. This feature is supported in SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online in...
View ArticlePassing and getting Date object to and from date and datetime fields
Another new feature we introduced in FormsDesigner 3.0.1 is the ability to interact with date and datetime fields by passing JavaScript Date objects. This feature takes away the need for consumer to...
View ArticleDesigning custom forms for smartphones, tablet devices, and regular PCs
Today we’d like to introduce you our new Forms Designer 3.0.1 feature for building custom forms for various types of devices, be it mobile phones, tablets or regular PCs. For all these types you can...
View ArticleFilter related items by almost any field of SharePoint form
In this article I'd like to introduce you to a new feature of SharePoint Forms Designer 2.9.1 allowing to filter the Related items control by almost any form field including lookup, single line of...
View ArticleCapture signature or hand-written notes in SharePoint form using tablets or...
CodeProjectIn this article I will describe the implementation of two business cases which require capturing hand-written marks and a signature in a form. I will use SharePoint Forms Designer 2.8.12...
View ArticleHow to conditionally hide, disable, and make mandatory fields on SharePoint...
CodeProjectHere I'd like to demonstrate the most popular cases you may face during implementation of SharePoint forms with complex logic. Most likely you will need to combine the cases described below...
View ArticlePublish a form for anonymous users on a public site in Office 365
CodeProjectIn this article I will demonstrate how to design forms for public sites in Office 365 with help of Forms Designer and make them available for anonymous users. As an example, I will create a...
View ArticleClient people picker on a custom SharePoint form
CodeProjectToday I'm going to show how to put the client people picker that has become available in SharePoint 2013 onto a custom form with help of the latest version of Forms Designer 2.8.9. I'm going...
View ArticleRelated documents with support of quick upload
CodeProjectIn this article, I would like to demonstrate how to design a form with related documents and how to link new documents easily by dragging and dropping them onto the form. To build this...
View ArticleChange of approval status in SharePoint edit form
CodeProjectIn one of my previous posts I have described how to customize toolbar buttons in SharePoint forms and how to add Approve and Reject buttons to the bottom of Workflow tasks in particular....
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