Prepopulate fields with the SharePoint Form Field Assistant

I have already covered a great script by Paul Grenier about how to prepopulate fields in SharePoint forms with values from the url.

Christian Dehaeseleer from U2U told me this morning about another codeplex project from Paul Grenier that is called the “Form Field Assistant”.

Practically, it does about the same thing, but it looks more complete. Very handy is that it is a separate library that you can load when you want to.There is a problem with the loading though, if you are going to use this invoke the library via:

function customLoadEvent()
{
        $.spff({ lock: true }); 
}
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("customLoadEvent");

(as discussed here)

About: Marijn

Marijn Somers (MVP) has over 14 years experience in the SharePoint world, starting out with SP2007. Over the years the focus has grown to Office 365, with a focus on collaboration and document management. He is a business consultant at Balestra and Principal Content Provider for "Mijn 365 Coach" that offers dutch employee video training. His main work tracks are around user adoption, training and coaching and governance. He is also not afraid to dig deeper in the technicalities with PowerShell, adaptive cards or custom formatting in lists and libraries. You can listen to him on the biweekly "Office 365 Distilled" podcast.