This form was customized not working with attachment

This post might be useful for sharepoint designers who are using SharePoint Designer 2007. Have you ever faced this alert in your custom pages :) Velin Georgiev blog image

If you would like to add 'attach files' functionality to your custom SharePoint 2007 form you may want to visit the links below: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953271&sd=rss&spid=12200 http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=676af157-7d96-4e15-a987-54b8a3e4d948&ID=10 Both articles are useful, however only one solution from the first link worked for my case so I will try to describe it below: I had to create custom new form and custom edit forum for a sharePoint List and the 'attach file' functionality had to be implemented as well: 1.1 The following default code in a custom form:


<xsl:template name="dvt_1">
<xsl:variable name="dvt_StyleName">ListForm</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Rows" select="/dsQueryResponse/Rows/Row"/>
<table border="0" width="100%">
<xsl:call-template name="dvt_1.body">
            <xsl:with-param name="Rows" select="$Rows"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
    </table>
</xsl:template>

is replaced by this code for a custom NewForm.aspx or EditForm.aspx page:


    <xsl:variable name="dvt_StyleName">ListForm</xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="Rows" select="/dsQueryResponse/Rows/Row"/>
    <div>
        <span id="part1">
            <table border="0" width="100%">
                <xsl:call-template name="dvt_1.body">
                    <xsl:with-param name="Rows" select="$Rows"/>
                </xsl:call-template>
            </table>
        
        <SharePoint:AttachmentUpload runat="server" ControlMode="New"/>
        <SharePoint:ItemHiddenVersion runat="server" ControlMode="New"/>
    </div>
</xsl:template>

1.2 For custom 'Edit' pages only. The following piece of code has been changed from....


<SharePoint:FormToolBar runat="server" ControlMode="Edit"/>

to...


<SharePoint:FormToolBar runat="server" ControlMode="New"/>

1.3 Add additional piece of code above the following line of code:

<xsl:if test="$dvt_1_automode = '1'" ddwrt:cf_ignore="1">:


<tr id="idAttachmentsRow">
    <td nowrap="true" valign="top" class="ms-formlabel" width="20%">
        <SharePoint:FieldLabel ControlMode="New" FieldName="Attachments" runat="server"/>
    </td>
    <td valign="top" class="ms-formbody" width="80%">
        <SharePoint:FormField runat="server" id="AttachmentsField{$Pos}" ControlMode="New" FieldName="Attachments" __designer:bind="{ddwrt:DataBind('i', concat('AttachmentsField',$Pos), 'Value', 'ValueChanged', 'ID', ddwrt:EscapeDelims(string(@ID)),' @Attachments')}"/>
    </td>
</tr>
<script>
var elm = document.getElementById("idAttachmentsRow");
if (elm == null || elm.rows.length == 0)
    elm.style.display='none';
</script>

This changes should bring back the 'attach file' functionality to your custom new or edit page. At least worked for me :) Please note if you get an JavaScript error this maybe caused of the fact that the SharePoint Designer 2007 may change the id of this element in the code

<tr id="idAttachmentsRow">

<tr id="idAttachmentsRow{generate-id()}">

Rename the Id back to id="idAttachmentsRow". Thanks for your time!

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