Training Site Template: Part 3 - Custom Views and Forms

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Asif Rehmani — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:46:42 GMT

Good to see you blogging Sean. Hope to see more awesome content on the blog from you!

It was great to meet you at TechEd. I'll catch you again later I'm sure...

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Sabine — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:40:36 GMT

I've read through the previous sections of this tutorial and found them very helpful. VERY glad to see this third part! Here's the question we're running into: we often have users who need to be registered for a training class by someone other than themselves. For example, our HR rep needs to sign new hires up for the next orientation class as soon as their offer is finalized. Of course, as things stand now, if they register, they don't have the option to enter an attendee name other than their own so they get the notification for the class and the roster shows their name rather than the new hire's name. Understanding that, in this case, the notification would fail as the enrolled person is not in the email system, what would you suggest to give us an option to do this? As an aside, we also have this issue with existing employees -- a manager decides to enroll one of his or her employees for a class, and it's the same scenario...the manager gets the notificaitons and reminders, and the class is in the manager's list of upcoming registrations and the manager's name is on the roster.

Any help would be appreciated - I'm a total novice at this stuff, so it could be there is a rather obvious (to others) solution that I'm completely unaware of. Thanks, and glad to see this post on the blog!

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RickS — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:16:06 GMT

Back to basics question...While I have followed much of this tutorial by hand and gotten quite a bit of it to work (a newbie learning alot along the way), when I download and install the completed template I can build a new course but can't register myself (or anyone else) for it. Permissions issue? What gives? I want to see th finished product working as many others have apparently accomplished. Thanks - great tool which will help many I would say!

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ben.chen — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:11:43 GMT

One questions,

Regarding how to create the STP template, are there any tricks? I used the Sharepoint Designer to create the template and after creating a new site with the template, some customized Data Form Webparts will show error. And after the investigation, they all get the new GUIDs.

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Amy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:46:31 GMT

I guess I am missing something about how this template writes to the registrations list. I want to customize the Registrations and Past Registrations lists to include the Course Title and some other custom fields from the Courses list when a person signs up for a course.

I have added the column for CourseTitle in the Registrations and Past Registrations lists as a lookup field.

I have added the CourseTitle to the Parameters of the Register.aspx DFWP.

I am obviously missing something, but I am still rather new to Sharepoint development and I have no clue where to go from here. If someone can help me out I would REALLY appreciate it! I need to get this site implemented in production, but this customization is one that is required before it can be moved into production.

I also hope you or someone else can write a blog entry about creating a way for a manager (or someone else) to sign up another user for a course. My boss has already asked me if this would be something we can do in the future and it looks like quite a few other people are struggling with the same problem.

Employee Training and Scheduling Template - a couple fixes Part 3

Points-of-Sharing — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:12:43 GMT

Took me long enough to get this post up, but it's finally done (hopefully - please let me know if

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Sara — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:53:19 GMT

Hi, Thank you for your tips.

I was wondering is this possible? On the Display form/or edit form you find the course info. Is it possible to change the text of Export Event to something else? Where can i change this. And also above the course description the text editor gets enabled. Is there a way to disable this text editor for users. How can i do this? I have been playing around with sharepoint desinger and xsl editor but no luck yet..

Please help. Thanks!

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Robert — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:45:39 GMT

Hi, I was looking at these tutorials and I think they are amazing, and I tried to do a little customization to the forms and ended up getting lost in sharepoint designer. I'm a visual basic and java guy, and couldn't realy make sense of how to add a sharepoint formfield that would actually be recognized by sharepoint when I went into the workflow. I'm trying to find a way to add a section in the form that specifies what departments the class is open to because you wouldn't want, say an IT person taking a course designed for Accountants. I think I know how to implement it but I haven't had any luck with editing the form and having the form field recognized when I go into a workflow.

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Wanda123 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:23:26 GMT

Hello - I am testing the Application Template as provided from the downloads - no customization at this point. The "unregister" process is not restoring the seats as available. Has anyone else run into this issue with the provided template and how do we fix that?

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Diana — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:15:06 GMT

I also have the same problem as Robert. I am trying to add a 'Yex/No' type of field to the NewItem.aspx in the course list but I get 'Object cannot be rendered' type of problem. Please anyone who can help?

Wanda: please visit the following website to fix the problem: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2008/08/07/6048.aspx#19636

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Chanda — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:23:15 GMT

Robert and Diana,

Maybe this will help. I think Sean is addressing the reason behind your issue in the 4th paragraph of this posting - basically becasue the new/edit/display forms for the Courses list have been customized they won't automatically pick up changes that you might make to the list columns, but you can work around that fairly easily.

First, add the column(s) that you want to the Courses list through the browser (go to the Courses list and choose Settings > List Settings). Once you have the column added open the newform.aspx page for the Courses list in SharePoint Designer. Delete the custom list form that is under the original (closed) LFWP, then add it back (Sean explains this part also in this post under the Remaking the Courses List Forms section). By doing this the custom list form will pick up the new column(s) you added. Hide any fields you don't want displayed and save your changes, then repeat for the edit and display forms - your forms should display without any error.

You would want to do the same if you choose to remove any fields from the Courses list that don't apply to your specific scenario (i.e. we don't use the instructor field here).

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uday — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:27:38 GMT

Hi Sean ,

The $AlreadyRegistered logic is not working somehow for me can you plese post some details of the logic.

Thanks in advance.

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Jenn Johnson — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:00:08 GMT

How do you put a scrolling text box through sharepoint designer like the credits scrolling at the end of a movie?

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Mike — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:17:14 GMT

I would like to understand how this site can be bundled up and deployed without having to redo the data view web parts. The issue we are experiencing is when the site is deployed to another environment, i.e from dev to test via a backup/restore or export/import, the list guids change and all the data views are broken.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Colleen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:44:29 GMT

When I try to join the courses list with the Course Materials document library, I get a big bad SPD error that says "SPD can not render the XSLT in this Data View." Another part of the error says "Failed Setting processor systle sheet.". Do you know what is causing these errors?

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Colleen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:45:35 GMT

I am getting the same error "SPD can not render the XSLT in this Data View" when I try to complete Step 2 of the "Sign Me Up" section. Are there any work-arounds to this error?

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Jose — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:21:02 GMT

Not sure if anyone has pointed this out but the Query for the "Remove" link on "Courses I am attending" on the default main page is always coming up with the earliest ID and not the correlating ID for the course shown, this means that one could invaribly, with the default permissions, delete someone else's course registration. This makes the link essentially useless. Besides that there does not seem to be a way to prevent people from deleting Courses that have been defined in the calendar, there is of course a warning window that pops up before the deletion to recycle bin but most people click yes on prompts. This also kills the usefulness of the application. otherwise, awesome stuff!

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Joey — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:49:46 GMT

Sean,

I followed the examples on my own site and it worked. however I now find the edit and display forms in the View: Drop down list. When I click on them they take me to the edit/display forms.

Any idea why they showed up there and how do I remove them since they are not Views?

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Hari — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:41:32 GMT

I am using this template for training registration . in dispform.aspx page the My Registration button appears in top as well as buttom. i want to change that text to register if the user in not registered for training and want a text unregister if the user has already registered for training. the default template always display the same text My Registration which is so confusing and the users do not know how to unregister from the course. i always have to send them instruction for unregistration. which is so frustrating. does any one know how to reslove this issue ??

i am new to sharepoint so can someone help me?

Thanks

Hari

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Gene — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:39:55 GMT

Hi,

I am also testing this template. Question regarding the "Course" list. I want to create a view that shows only courses that are equal or greater than today. However, the "Start Time" does not exist in the filter dropdown list for me to choose. Any idea on how I can accomplish this?

thanks

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Mike — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:15:32 GMT

Sean, Did anyone ever write Part 4? If so, please post the URL. Excellent series of aricles so far.

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Chris — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:18:07 GMT

I'm having trouble with the following step:

"From here, create two new ASPX pages (File > New > ASPX) called Register.aspx and Unregister.aspx. In each of these I'll leave it to you to copy the appropriate XSLT from the site template, but here's the gist of what's going on:"

Where do I find the site template to copy the XSLT from?