A Way To Create Email Column In Share Point}

Submitted by: Ray Li

For now, there is no such a built-in column in SharePoint can let administrator to create a column for email addresses. To do that, you have to create a Text column and put the restrictions on this column for a certain format inputs.

And another issue about typing a email address is we have to type the @ symbol with two keys( shift + @), and for the most of cases we are using certain kinds of the email host.

All of these will be gone with our Email Column plugin for SharePoint.

The SharePoint Email Field Auto Completion is a handy plugin to save your time from filling the @domain information, for instance, when enter support@hotmail.com, you only need to enter support@, and the SharePoint Email Field Auto Completion dropdown feature will show a list of domain choices for you to choose from.

Column Creation

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Without SharePoint Email Filed Auto Completion, administrators have to create a Single line of text field for the email information; however, using this plugin, they can easily create an email column by selecting the Email field in the menu of Create Column page.

Comparing to the Single line of text field, Email field provides users the features of Domain Information Auto-completion and Email Address Validation.

Settings

SharePoint Email Field Auto Completion provides administrators an option to set a default email domains list. They can easily set a list of domain choices for their users to choose from and thus save the users time.

The plugin also allows administrators to restrict the users from entering other domain information that is not included in the list they created to ensure they only get the exact email information that is really needed.

Domain Information Auto-completion

The SharePoint Email Field Auto Completion dropdown feature will show a list of domain choices for the end users to choose from. They no longer need to enter the @domain information. So by default, we already have some options for users, such as gmail.com, yahho.com, hotmail.com. And the administrators of Sharepoint can set the what domains can be used for this email column as options besides those default options.

Email Address Validation

This plugin supports the feature of Email Address Validation which guarantees only the email address in the right format and with certains domains can be saved. We are saving administrators from setting Regular Expression for validation. And there is an option in setting page of Email column to limit the candidate domains for the email address that user could have.

License

This product is delivered with Farm License, which means you can use you copy with one farm whithout any limitations. After you pay for our product, we are going to ask the ID of your SharePoint Farm to generate a license for you.

About Leftwater Solutions

Leftwater Solutions is a startup company focusing on bringring more values to the users of Sharepoint from all over the world. If you want to know more about this company, please take a moment to visit http://www.leftwater.com.

About the Author: Ray LiSales of Leftwater Solutions.

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