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List Item - Copy & Modify functionality

Asked By: Jameson Baxter Date: Apr 08, 2005 Category: Sharepoint Views: 368

For Items in a List, I am looking for Copy & Modify functionality. Something like on the item display form I can add a simple button to copy the item being viewed and open NewItem form pre populated with its contents where user can edit the fields that he wants and save it to the list as newely created item.

Can anyone point me to any commercial/shareware/freeware utility that I can add to the site?

I have a custom list with a combination of many fields. There are frequent additions but each addition requires a minor change (like new Effective Date or Price) while rest of the content remains the same. Such functionality will simplifies the updates and reduce the chances of human error.

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2 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Daron Oneill Answered On: Apr 08, 2005

Off the top of my head, since you’re using a custom list, you could just add a new button to the toolbar through the definition of that list. The issue is to pre-populate the new list with defaults from the old one but if the list is known and doesn’t change too often you could use some JavaScript to seed the new list item.

I don’t know of any tools to do this and the suggestion above is just from the neurons on the top of my brain. Might be a better way to do this.

Answer #2 Answered By: M Juarez Answered On: Apr 08, 2005

Its not the default values that I want to be taken over into new item - It is the values in a list item that I want to carry over (seed) in a new item. It is similar to what an Issues List does when you edit an existing issue.

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