I feel obliged to post my solution on this site since I’ve had a very similar problem to all of you and this site helped me out.

I had to redirect a user after they uploaded and captured the metadata of a document. I also therefore struggled with the lack of context vs not having the metadata saved.

After the file has been uploaded, SharePoint assigns a SPListItem to it and then you are typically redirected to a CRUD screen where you capture this metadata. This got me thinking that I should try to get hold of ‘THAT’ item and add to it’s metadata instead of trying to add a new list item. This will therefore be un intercept of the update, never the add.

Here is the snippet (sorry for the mess but this window is a little small to copy code)

public override void ItemUpdating(SPItemEventProperties properties)
{
SPSite siteColl = null;
SPWeb site = null;
string url = null;
bool hasError = true;
try
{

siteColl = new SPSite(properties.SiteId);
site = siteColl.OpenWeb(properties.RelativeWebUrl);
SPList list = site.Lists[properties.ListId];

SPFile file = properties.ListItem.File;

// Add the item and fill it with the values from properties
DisableEventFiring();

//Note that the ‘reserved’ columns in SharePoint uses the ‘vti_’ prefix for it’s property attributes

file.Item[BusinessObjects.Entities.KnowledgeBaseArticle.ARTICLE_TITLE] = properties.AfterProperties["vti_title"];
file.Item[BusinessObjects.Entities.KnowledgeBaseArticle.CATEGORY] = properties.AfterProperties["Category"];
file.Item[BusinessObjects.Entities.KnowledgeBaseArticle.RELATED_TO] = properties.AfterProperties["RelatedTo"];
file.Item[BusinessObjects.Entities.KnowledgeBaseArticle.DESCRIPTION] = properties.AfterProperties["vti_description"];
file.Item[BusinessObjects.Entities.KnowledgeBaseArticle.RATING_VALUE] = properties.AfterProperties["RatingValue"];
file.Item.Update();
file.CheckIn(null);
hasError = false;

//build url
url = GetRelativeURL(properties.ListTitle, file.Item.ID);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Helper.EventLogHelper.LogException(ex);
hasError = true;
}
finally
{
EnableEventFiring();
// Cleanup
site.Dispose();
siteColl.Dispose();
}
if (hasError == false)
{
// Redirect
SPUtility.Redirect(url, SPRedirectFlags.RelativeToLayoutsPage, _currentContext);
}
}

I hope that this code can help someone as the result for me was that that file was uploaded successfully and that the metadata that I needed was indeed captured.

Kind regards
Michael

M.

Sorry – poor typing in my previous comment for the links.

the @ID parameter seems to be misplaced?! Why is the xsl-parameter inside a GUID?
The Url of an item should be something like this http://example.org/Lists/DispForm.aspx?ID=5.

thank you for the quick response. The button I added has this code:

I thought that when I add the “commit”-Action before the “Redirect”-Action, the ID is already set?

can you provide your xslt-code from your DataFormWebPart?

What is a problem is the fact that when you are “inside” NewForm.aspx the new id of the item is not set. After submitting the form the item gets created and an id is assigned.

tried the same like you in SPD, however, when I add the parameter ?ID={@ID} to the link, sharepoint does not take the correct ID of the current item, but {@ID} appears in the link. Does anyone know how to overcome this?