IntraNoggin

I wanted a way to capture links to sites in my SharePoint link list, but it's kind of a pain to copy the url, open my list, create a new item, paste…etc.

Here's the solution I came up with.

First open the site in designer and create a new form for entries in the link list. I just copied the newform.aspx and renamed it newsetvalueform.aspx

You can get the script in a text file from the downloads over on the My Local Broadband website: here

Now in the main content placeholder, right before the close of the content tag, put this JavaScript in place:

<script type="text/javascript">

    _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("fillDefaultValues");

    function fillDefaultValues()

    {    

        var qs = location.search.substring(1, location.search.length);    

        var args = qs.split("&");    

        var vals = new Object();    

        for (var i=0; i < args.length; i++)

        {    

            var nameVal = args[i].split("=");    

            var temp = unescape(nameVal[1]).split('+');    

            nameVal[1] = temp.join(' ');

            nameVal[0]=nameVal[0].toLowerCase();    

            setTextFromFieldName(nameVal[0],nameVal[1]);

        }

    }

    function getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle(tagName, identifier, title)

    {    

        var len = identifier.length;    

        var tags = document.getElementsByTagName(tagName);    

        for (var i=0; i < tags.length; i++)

        {    

            //alert("Found tag: " + tagName + "tag " + i + " of " + tags.length + " title: " + tags[i].title.toLowerCase());

            var tempString = tags[i].id;    

            if (tags[i].title.toLowerCase() == title && (identifier == "" || tempString.indexOf(identifier) == tempString.length - len))

            {            

                return tags[i];    

            }    

        }

        return null;

    }

    function setTextFromFieldName(fieldName, value)

    {        

         var found=false;         

         if(!found)

         {

            theInput = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("textarea","",fieldName);    

            found = setValue(theInput,value);

        }

         if(!found)

         {

             var theInput = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("input","",fieldName);    

             found = setValue(theInput,value);

         }

    }

    function setValue(inputField,value)

    {

        if (inputField != null)

        {

            inputField.value=value;

            return true;

        }

        return false;

    }

</script>

Save your custom file.

Now Create a favorite that points to:

javascript:function%20addlink(){t=document.title;u=escape(location.href);var%20q='http://www.intranoggin.com/Lists/Links/NewSetValuesForm.aspx?url='+u+'&description='+t;};%20addlink();

Make sure you replace www.intranoggin.com with the url of the site holding your link list.

You may need to actually go to where your favorites are stored, create a new shortcut to a web site, then go to the shortcut's properties and enter that bit of javascript.