Hi Marc,
In a sense this code sort of like function like a People Picker where the "Employee Number" is used to query other data. We needed to fetch other data that isn't available in our LDAP. And fetching it from a List we can manage would allow us to manage and control what information can be found on our list as well as who has permission to access the list since we have members on our Team who are in charge of maintaining the entire Employee List.
Ideally people here would want some of the Employee information fetched thru SAP but it's likely that no one here has the know-how to integrate those two Systems yet.
As a small project on it's own the ability to fetch 15-20 Personal Details of an Employee and have those values populate the forms based on the Employee Number entered will definitely speed up any inputting process involving those data.
Also the people here sort of use the data gathered in this list for their reporting and it seems that the number of Look Up Columns that should be displayed in a List Display Web Part is limited to 6 Columns according to the warning prompt that I received when I tried to display data from a list consisting mostly of Look up Columns.
If I were to pursue improving this thing here, Would it be possible to bind and fetch data based on two fields at once for example "Employee Number (Text Field)" or "Employee Name (People/Groups Field)"
Regards,
Francis
In a sense this code sort of like function like a People Picker where the "Employee Number" is used to query other data. We needed to fetch other data that isn't available in our LDAP. And fetching it from a List we can manage would allow us to manage and control what information can be found on our list as well as who has permission to access the list since we have members on our Team who are in charge of maintaining the entire Employee List.
Ideally people here would want some of the Employee information fetched thru SAP but it's likely that no one here has the know-how to integrate those two Systems yet.
As a small project on it's own the ability to fetch 15-20 Personal Details of an Employee and have those values populate the forms based on the Employee Number entered will definitely speed up any inputting process involving those data.
Also the people here sort of use the data gathered in this list for their reporting and it seems that the number of Look Up Columns that should be displayed in a List Display Web Part is limited to 6 Columns according to the warning prompt that I received when I tried to display data from a list consisting mostly of Look up Columns.
If I were to pursue improving this thing here, Would it be possible to bind and fetch data based on two fields at once for example "Employee Number (Text Field)" or "Employee Name (People/Groups Field)"
Regards,
Francis
