Problem Statement:
If you have created a Multiline textbox with “Append Changes to Existing Text”
This will display a version history for that column in default Edit and Display form, but the same thing won’t work in the custom edit and display forms.
Solution:
Add tag below the text fields control with Control mode “Display” and unique Id.
<SharePoint:AppendOnlyHistory runat="server" id="ff21disp{$Pos}" controlmode="Display" fieldname="Comments "></SharePoint:AppendOnlyHistory>
this was very useful article ..solves my problem
ReplyDeleteHow can I add this to a default view? I am having issues when I export to a excel iqy spreadsheet. The data doesn't seem to want to show up.
ReplyDeleteIt wont be displayed in the exported spreadsheet, as its a version column. If you still wants to display the data, then you have to create another column which reflects the latest data of that column. You can use calculated column or update the latest value using the code.
ReplyDeleteCan you tell me how you assign the latest version to a calculated column?
DeleteI have an append changes column called "Comments" and a calculated column called "Latest Comment".
When defining the formula field of "Latest Comment" I put in an entry of
=[Comments]
but when save the change receive an error message.
Thanks for the 2010 contribution. Any way to do this in 2007?
ReplyDeleteYou just made my day!! Thanks for the Append History tag.
ReplyDeleteHow does this work with the custom display form? I got the edit form, but I can't figure out how to do it with the display form. Can someone help me, please?
ReplyDeleteYou can use <xsl:value-of select="@Title" />to display any field value in display form.
DeleteThat didn't work. I had to add "" after "" and it worked perfectly.
DeleteHow do you refer to the AppendOnlyHistory in the Display form? It's all done with XSL.
DeleteCan you show how you actually did it?