SharePoint Designer - how to
I have List A and it has a Multiple Value Data Lookup field to List B.
I have a SharePoint Designer Workflow that is attached to List A, and upon Creation it Create New Item in a new List C. The purpose of List C is just to be a smaller most recent copies of List A.
However, when there is more than one item in the Data Lookup field (Item1;Item2;Item3;Item4) then I need it to create a new item in List C for "each of those data lookup values. So I need it to create 4 new records in List C for the last example.
I created a new Multi-line text field and in the Workflow have the Data Lookup field copied to it assuming that I will next need to somehow parse and copy each line of data prior to the " ; " that separates them.
Anyone know how I can do that with SharePoint Designer?
I have a SharePoint Designer Workflow that is attached to List A, and upon Creation it Create New Item in a new List C. The purpose of List C is just to be a smaller most recent copies of List A.
However, when there is more than one item in the Data Lookup field (Item1;Item2;Item3;Item4) then I need it to create a new item in List C for "each of those data lookup values. So I need it to create 4 new records in List C for the last example.
I created a new Multi-line text field and in the Workflow have the Data Lookup field copied to it assuming that I will next need to somehow parse and copy each line of data prior to the " ; " that separates them.
Anyone know how I can do that with SharePoint Designer?
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I don't think this is possible using SPD, I would recommend using Visual Studio since this is much simpler using code.
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I am a SharePoint Architect, I am not a developer. My customer requires everything be done with SPD so that they can support it afterwards.
From what I have read and tried so far, this should be able to be done using SPD, since I am able to create the ONE record copy, I should logically be able to create 3 more copies pulling the parsed value for the other records.
Are there any SharePoint Designer (SPD) experts please??
From what I have read and tried so far, this should be able to be done using SPD, since I am able to create the ONE record copy, I should logically be able to create 3 more copies pulling the parsed value for the other records.
Are there any SharePoint Designer (SPD) experts please??
You have to understand one thing, SPD is a very powerful tool for creating client side applications (including webparts and workflows). It does not have the ability to read a value and perform the kind of parsing that you have requested. Even to accomplish this, you'll have to create custom Javascript codes on the workflow initiation page so that it can parse the value.
Anyway, I am curious to see what other experts have that can help you out.
Anyway, I am curious to see what other experts have that can help you out.
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I am glad for you :-)