BEIJING, CHINA - February 3, 2012 - SHAREPOINTBOOST, a leading developer of Microsoft SharePoint enhancements, today releases new features for its product, SharePoint Cascaded Lookup.
Cascaded Lookup, one of our favourite, is upgraded to version 3.0. So what can this field type do for you? Cascaded Lookup is so obvious you will wonder how you could do without it till today.
In many situations users have successive choices to make, often with dropdown menus, typically "Country" then "Province". Well thanks to Cascaded Lookup you will not have to display all provinces in the world but only the ones relevant for the chosen country. That is for the principle. Of course there are many refinements, like removing duplicates or filtering by view.
But the best comes with this version 3.0, like this functionality: filter lookup items by multiple columns. This means that the content of several fields is used to define the content of another. In this way when user chooses created: 2009 and type: text, he will be presented with a list of all text documents created in 2009.
The processing time is 2-4x faster. With such performance and continuing with our example above, you can restrain with ease the number of documents in the list by adding filtering levels like location: USA and createdby: manager and within seconds you will be presented with all text documents created in the USA by managers in 2009.
The number of cascading levels is now unlimited, you can for instance accommodate Continent, Country, Province, County, City, Street, Building, Floor etc.
Additional columns from lookup list can be displayed, for example when you display a city you can also show the Zip code column at the same time. Those extra columns are shown in a user-defined order.
New items in the source list are easily added with the use of a Create new item link. That easy.
These are only a few of the many innovations brought by version 3.0. Cascaded Lookup was great, we made it better for you.
More information on SharePointBoost website : http://www.sharepointboost.com/cascaded-lookup.html
Cascaded Lookup, one of our favourite, is upgraded to version 3.0. So what can this field type do for you? Cascaded Lookup is so obvious you will wonder how you could do without it till today.
In many situations users have successive choices to make, often with dropdown menus, typically "Country" then "Province". Well thanks to Cascaded Lookup you will not have to display all provinces in the world but only the ones relevant for the chosen country. That is for the principle. Of course there are many refinements, like removing duplicates or filtering by view.
But the best comes with this version 3.0, like this functionality: filter lookup items by multiple columns. This means that the content of several fields is used to define the content of another. In this way when user chooses created: 2009 and type: text, he will be presented with a list of all text documents created in 2009.
The processing time is 2-4x faster. With such performance and continuing with our example above, you can restrain with ease the number of documents in the list by adding filtering levels like location: USA and createdby: manager and within seconds you will be presented with all text documents created in the USA by managers in 2009.
The number of cascading levels is now unlimited, you can for instance accommodate Continent, Country, Province, County, City, Street, Building, Floor etc.
Additional columns from lookup list can be displayed, for example when you display a city you can also show the Zip code column at the same time. Those extra columns are shown in a user-defined order.
New items in the source list are easily added with the use of a Create new item link. That easy.
These are only a few of the many innovations brought by version 3.0. Cascaded Lookup was great, we made it better for you.
More information on SharePointBoost website : http://www.sharepointboost.com/cascaded-lookup.html