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I've got 3 questions/Problems with related items.

I have a parent form that has a lookup field (Employee name) and a Recorded date (the date is set to today)
I have a related item (child) which points to a document library file. In the child library I also have a Employee Name and a Recorded Date field.

Problem 1. When I drag a new document into the form the date format in the child library is in US:



Problem 2
I want to create two filters form the related items and have used some of the code shown previously in the forums

//first filter on page load
setHash();

fd.updateDroppedDocuments($('.SCForm'), function(listItem) {
//get the values from the Form fields:
var employee = fd.field("Employee_x0020_Name").control('data')['Employee_x0020_Name'];
var rdate = fd.field("RecordedDate").value();
//set the values on uploaded document:
listItem.set_item('Employee_x0020_Name', employee);
listItem.set_item('RecordedDate', rdate);
listItem.update();
});



//and attach an on-change handler that will call the filtering function wherever the value of the field changes
fd.field('Employee_x0020_Name').change(setHash);
fd.field('RecordedDate').change(setHash);

//this is the actual function that filters the list
function setHash(){
//get value
var value = fd.field('Employee_x0020_Name').value();
if (!value) {
value = "";
}

var value2 = fd.field('RecordedDate').value();
if (!value2) {
value2 = "";
}

value = encodeURIComponent(escape(value)).replace(/\-/g, "%252D");
value2 = encodeURIComponent(escape(value2)).replace(/\-/g, "%252D");

//set the URL’s hash value. An explanation on this is at the end of the article.
window.location.hash = "InplviewHash" + $(".SCForm [webpartid]").attr("webpartid") + '=FilterField1=Employee_x0020_Name-FilterValue1=' + value + '-FilterField2=RecordedDate-FilterValue2=' + value2;
}

I can't seem to get this working - I've manually changed the date as shown in problem 1 - so it doesn't seem to be this causing the problem.

Problem 3
When I remove all the JS on the form and just have a basic filter - the related items are still not showing. for some reason I have a strage filter showing it I manually try and change it:

Hi Roo,

OK, let's go through the issues:

1) Site Settings -> Regional Setting -> Locale. The datepicker will be in an appropriate format after changing.

2) Try to use another approach like this (concatenating filter URL another way):
3) It seems like something wrong with a static filter in the datasource. Please turn it off and try again. After that turn it on again. If this is doesn't help, please provide the screenshot of the browser console, the URL and the filter settings.

Thanks for your reply
Number 1.
I can confirm that this subsite and the mainsite has UK regional settings:
and that when dropping the form in it still converts it in US.
Number 2
I tried this, but it is still not filtering on both fields. It doesn't seem to like the filtering on the Employee_name. As mentioned this field is a cross-site look up on the primary site not the subsite.
Also I don't really want it on field change, rather just to display or to update when a document is dragged into the form as with other forms.

Number 3
What I have done is I have got rid of the employee name data source filter and replaced it with the recorded date.

What may be the easiest solution to all of these is - Is is Possible to link the Form Unique ID to a field on the related document library. (ie called masterformID) if so how would this be done as the ID field is not should in form designer? if this can be done what would the related item column format need to be. This would be an ideal solution as it would by-pass the date problem and the lookup problem?

Hi Alex

I've used this to solve the issue:

fd.updateDroppedDocuments($('.SCForm'), function(listItem) {
//get the values from the Form fields:
var fid = parseInt(window.top.GetUrlKeyValue('ID'));
//set the values on uploaded document:
listItem.set_item('Title', fid);
listItem.update();
});

One last question - Is the a way within the update dropped item to rename the file itself? in my case as Sting of ParentID + Employee_x0020_Name + RecordedDate. But keeping the extention in tact?

Hi Roo,

I'm very happy you have found a solution, I still can't reproduce your date and filter issue on my site.

Check this article about related documents (a renaming is included): https://spform.com/javascript-framework ... ctionality. Please feel free to ask if you will have any questions.

Everything is working now except the date is still changing the date to US format! and I can't see a way of preserving the extension (ie DOCX or TXT or PDF)

Thanks

Hi Roo,

Honestly, I don't know yet, why you have a date issue in related items. Could you check a regular list view of that list to be sure that this is an issue of the related items only?

About preserving an extension: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2238