Advanced: PDF Form population via External List custom action
This article is step by step guide how to populate PDF forms with data form External list. For the purpose of this guide, we have prepared the following External Content Type: (Click on the image to view it in full size) Assuming “ADDRESS” field is unique, we can identify an External list item through that field. Step 1. Prepare template with custom server “Form Load” action. Add the following script to a “Form Load”event: try{ if(form.IsNew()){ string key = form.GetQueryParam(“itemID”); string entityNS = “http://pdemo”; string...
read moreBusiness Connectivity Service with “Item Level” security and PDF forms
Currently our development team is finishing up a cumulative update 1 for PDF SharePoint V2. One of new features we added there is support of External Content Types and External Lists. We received many requests from PDF SharePoint customer’s to add support for BCS and so about 2 months ago we started digging into Business Connectivity Services. Even back in March 2010, we reviewed a blog by Michal Pisarek “BCS External List Limitations” (link: http://www.sharepointanalysthq.com/2010/07/bcs-external-list-limitations/). He provided a decent list of BCS limitations in context of...
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