How to get Checkin button while in the "Edit" form for document library in Sharepoint 2007
I had a customer requirement
where he wanted to add a check-in button on the Edit form of a document library.
So that as soon as the required metadata is added to the item, the user can select to check-in the document instead of first clicking the OK button to save and then going back to doc-lib and checkin the document. They basically wanted to avoid the 2 step process, so they want the Checkin operation (as a button) on the edit-form itself.
The simple solution I found was If we add a query string to the end of the edit URL, it will show a check-in button. Something like:
http://server/Documents/Forms/EditForm.aspx?ID=xx&Mode=Upload
So I wrote a simple feature to add this as additional "Edit and Checkin" menu to ECB.
The elements file looks like this:
Following is the only important part of that feature (elements.xml file):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<CustomAction Id="EditAndCheckin"
RegistrationType="List"
RegistrationId="101"
Location="EditControlBlock"
Sequence="2454"
Title="Edit-Properties and Check-In"
Description="Edit the properties and checkin">
<UrlAction Url="javascript:function process(){var str = location.href;str= str.substr(0,str.lastIndexOf('/'));var site='{SiteUrl}';var item={ItemId};window.location.href=str +'/EditForm.aspx?ID='+item+'&Mode=Upload';};process();"/>
</CustomAction>
</Elements>
