This blog post is a retread, but it is specifically about installing SPEasyForms v2015.01.07 or later, where I’ve included the installation page/script in the package and made it easier to use.
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If you were at SharePoint Saturday VA Beach and you saw the session on SPEasyForms, you probably heard us say that the ribbon button for configuring SPEasyForms for a list is security trimmed and you need to have the Manage Lists permission in order to see it. But there is also a link to the settings page on the list settings page, and I recently realized that I never got around to security trimming this link.
So the question is, is this a security flaw? In a word, no. The reason is that despite its name, security trimming is not a security mechanism. It is a UI feature. Generally, it is a bad practice to show people a link to something that they cannot use. Having the link appear on the list settings page for users who cannot configure it is certainly a UI flaw, and one that I will start to address in the next AddOns release for SPEasyForms.
So the next question is, what are the security considerations you should be aware of when using SPEasyForms? SPEasyForms security is entirely based on file system security, meaning that what a user can do with SPEasyForms is based on the SharePoint permissions assigned to the files that SPEasyForms depends on.
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Scott Shearer and I were at SharePoint Saturday VA Beach this past weekend, which was an excellent event. Scott did a few different presentations including one on SPEasyForms, which drew a pretty big crowd and was pretty well received. After the presentation Scott opened the floor for questions, which quickly got a little deeper into the implementation details than he was expecting so I got up and fielded some questions. One of the questions was if you pass in request parameters, can SPEasyForms initialize form fields from the values? The answer was no, but it wouldn’t be that hard to implement and this is a very common request in SharePoint forums. In fact, I’m going to need this kind of functionality for some of the improvements I envision for SPEasyForms in the future.
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To demonstrate writing a plug-in for SPEasyForms, I’m going to write a pretty simple adapter that can be applied to user fields and adds the functionality to default the field value to the currently logged on user on new forms. It’s not just simple enough to provide a good sample for explaining creating plug-ins, it’s also something that customers ask me for pretty frequently. This post is going to explain the JavaScript behind the plug-in. The source code download will be a full-fledged no code sandbox solution, but if you need an explanation of the solution or packaging see my previous post Anatomy of a No Code Sandbox Solution; I’m not going to explain that again here.
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Let me just warn you up front, this is not going to be a very exciting post. Packaging is pretty boring. Nor is there anything original about it. I’m using a technique I first read about in articles by Ted Pattison back in about 2007. If I could still find those articles, this would be a very short post pointing you to them, but I did some rooting around looking for them and didn’t have a lot of luck, thus this post.
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As in why does it look just like an OOTB form for several seconds, then all of the sudden it is redrawn with tabs, and hidden fields, and all of the stuff I configured SPEasyForms to do? This annoys me! my users! my boss! how do I fix it?
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