Working with multiple library items at the same time

Question

Hi,

what i need to do is to be able to work with all the documents, that a user has checked in a document library. So a user selects several documents, and starts a workflow(or perhaps clicks a button in a visual web part?). Then I need to grab all the selected documents and merge them together, so I will create a new SP Item, which will be togetger with the other documents then moved to a different folder. So my question is, how can I work on a multiple items, that have been selected?

Thanks for any advice.

Dave

Answer 1

You can create a workflow to loop through

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.in/2008/05/looping-through-items-in-sharepoint.html

or create a feature to work with multiple items:

http://weblogs.asp.net/wesleybakker/archive/2009/03/05/select-multiple-list-items-in-sharepoint-feature.aspx

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Answer 2

Thanks, unfortunately, the first one loops through all items in Designer(I need this to be done programmatically), and the second link is more for SP 2007, where he only adds checkboxes to libraries

Dave

Answer 3

are you working in MOSS 2007 or SP 2010.?

if you are working in SP 2010. you have n;t mentioned any where?

please post in correct forum :SharePoint 2010 forum if you working with SP 2010 to get better solution to your problem.

by the way the second link

http://weblogs.asp.net/wesleybakker/archive/2009/03/05/select-multiple-list-items-in-sharepoint-feature.aspx

Next post mentioned in the above article

http://weblogs.asp.net/wesleybakker/archive/2009/03/09/downloadaszip-sharepoint-feature-part-ii.aspx

adds the check boxes and feature add the custom action button which will ZIP all the files you selected . according you your requirement you can implement the custom action button mentioned in the above article.

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Answer 4

Cheers,

I solved my problem with multiple items following this article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg552606.aspx

Dave