Comments on: Refferencing SharePoint form fields with JavaScript

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By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:37:00 +0000

Hi,

I posted the script snippet for the toggle option on the MSDN blog page but I'm short on time and have a system about to go live where Date Picker is being used for the start and end time fields in a list and users are complaining that they have to manually type the dates in.

Can you please send me a copy of the routine you used, because I'm having trouble enabling it?

By: Tanker

Tanker — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:55:00 +0000

Go ahead. If you want the whole code let me know and I can email it to you.

Not sure you want it dumped here.
I logged in with my Google Id this time so if you want to reach me you can through that.

thanks

By: Boris Gomiunik

Boris Gomiunik — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:48:00 +0000

Erik, that’s great. Would you mind if I’d make an extra post about this?

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:19:00 +0000

On the drive home I figured out how to access the time fields, The id on the Hour/Minute fields use the same ID as the date field but with hours and minutes added to the end, So I added two new vars:
var myID_Hours
var myID_Minutes

Then added the following lines into your function above the return:
myID_Hours = docTags[i].id+”Hours”;
myID_Minutes = docTags[i].id+”Minutes”;

This lets me reference the Hour/Minute field with getElementByID

I hope this helps someone else. Drove me nutes.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:19:00 +0000

Thanks for the great tip on that explorer Boris.

My problem is that the Date/Time fields are one field with a single Title but separate Id's. I can modify the date part of the field no problem, it's accessing the Hours/Minutes that is giving me grief. Everything I find will only work with Titles.

Is there a way to set the value of the field based on the ID? I know SP adds the page information to the front of the field ID's which makes it difficult to pick them out to set them.

Thanks.

By: Boris Gomiunik

Boris Gomiunik — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:01:00 +0000

Unfortunately this is a bit tougher, because all of those options are in a table and every option is in its own row. I’m thinking one option is to make a CSS hack to display table rows inline, or make paralel checkboxes and with onClick event you check or uncheck these options.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:09:00 +0000

My requirement is that I need to create a custom column of type ‘choice’ for a list but the check boxes should appear in horizontal pattern rather than the default vertical pattern. Is it possible using javascript?

By: Boris Gomiunik

Boris Gomiunik — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:24:00 +0000

Hi, Erik.

You can use the IE developer Toolbar to get the ID or Title of the field:

http://webborg.blogspot.com/2007/10/great-tools-for-web-developers-pt1.html

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:46:00 +0000

Great post, got it working easily enough, but i have an issue.

Has anyone figured out how to access the time choice fields from a date/time field?

I can access it if it is just the date, but I haven't figured out how to access the time part of it.