My name is Daniel A. Galant and I have the pleasure of working with the wonderful people over at Mindsharp. For the past 10+ years I have been a technology trainer focusing on Microsoft server products. Most recently I have been spending my time playing around the bits and bytes of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and its related products. I hope to share some of my findings through these pages and posts and hope that you might benefit from what we discover here.
Hi Daniel,
This is a slightly related topic that I was hoping that maybe you could help me shed some light on. I understand that there is really no reason for you to help me out, but if I could find a solution to this, I think it could make for a good post from you. Onwards;
Consider the following scenario;
We have a document library with a site content type called “Contract” associated which has several site columns in it. One of the columns is “Customer ID”.
The user browse to the document library and clicks the “New” dropdown menu on the library toolbar. She selects the “Contract” item and a new document opens up in MS Word. Everything is great and everyone is happy. Now here’s the rub. I want the “Customer ID” to be filled in automatically so that when the user saves the document it is already there.
I’m willing to programmatically call the “New” functionality from a calling application etc. but I really need to be able to pass in a name/value pair for a metadata column and have it be auto populated when it opens up in Word/Excel/PPT as a new document.
Any thoughts?
Best,
-Stefan
hi there, would you be interested in guest authoring articles for sharepoint magazine?
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