Dave Cavins » attachments http://davecavins.com web design, SharePoint customization & random stuff Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:01:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Limitations of displaying attachments in DVWP http://davecavins.com/2009/09/limitations-of-displaying-attachments-in-dvwp/ http://davecavins.com/2009/09/limitations-of-displaying-attachments-in-dvwp/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:51:06 +0000 davecavins http://davecavins.com/?p=213
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    • ]]>     attachmentsSo on a recent project I needed to show a link to the attachment for each item in a list. A quick Google search found How to show Attachments with DataFormWebPart from Dario Martirani Paolillo’s Web Log. I was excited because it seemed to work well and was very easy to implement. 

    As I was about to finish up the project I was given some new requirements which meant that there would be two Data View Web Parts on the page and both would need to show the attachments link.  This is when the issues started.  When you have two web parts on the page using the display attachments code the second one will just show “[value of field: Attachments]” instead of the actual link.  If anyone knows a good solution for this issue please post a comment.

    I want to avoid using something like this jQuery solution by Paul Grenier simply because of the performance issues it will create.

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