I'm new to Liferay and I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to dynamically add or subtract child pages on the fly. From what I've done so far I've only been able to use the Admin Control Panel to add a static amount of child pages to a main page.
My use case is I have a main page that houses all of my graphing charts and then I have a bunch of child pages for each type of graph. The amount of graphs are dynamic depending on the company though so some may have 10 child pages and others may have only three. Is this possible? The only thing I've been able to find is this article on custom navigation, https://liferayinfo.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/liferay-custom-navigation/.
It depends on what you consider "dynamic": If it's literally "on the fly": Yes, there are options to dynamically handle pages - this approach is quite complex. Way too complex for a simple answer on stackoverflow.
But not everything is lost: You might get away with building your own navigation portlet that determines how many (and which) of the child pages that you've statically created get displayed, based on criteria that you know.
When each of your companies (careful: Misleading term - Liferay uses "company" as the technical name for "portal instance") uses a different site, you can also use site templates, or page templates - including this custom navigation portlet.
Also you can always create pages and page hierarchies with Liferay's API. Thorsten Laux's comment already mentions LayoutLocalService. For maintainability: it'll be easier if you use it statically when you create the pages, instead of dynamically when you have the data (there we are again: dynamic use is too complex for this answer).
If it's good enough to hide certain pages: Go with a custom navigation portlet instead of Liferay's own. Depending on the complexity that you're willing to end up with: You can either create your own portlet or utilize a WebContent structure and template to dynamically decide which pages to link and which not to link (which effectively will hide them).
In SharePoint 2010 I have a list. I modified the default list page (allitemsg.aspx) to show another list, so now in the page I can show a manager and his sub-employees for example.
Now if I save this site as a template and create a new site based on it, this customization does not carry over. The manager list page will only show the managers, and the sub-employees list will be gone.
Is there a way to make a template the preserves this type of customization?
Thanks.
Not really a solution to this direct problem, but if you used related item views they do carry over.
If there is any way to use resuable contents from resuable content list being used in masterpage in SharePoint 2007?
Basically in the footer of the masterpage I want to create a link and the value of that I want to be editable per site collection. I read about resuable content list and I wonder if I can use it here, If not what other options I have?
I would suggest use a DVWP on master page that would solve your purpose as you can update the links in list and they would be updated in masterpage
I'm just tasked by my boss to create a Sharepoint solution for the scenerio below.
(I'm a total newbie to Sharepoint. So please forgive me if i use the terminology wrong)
The portal should open in a custom look than the default Sharepoint design and it should have links to the products. Every product page should have different look and feel but have same types of content. For example every product should have Published Materials list but with different set of content.
So, an example of the desired map is like this:
/Home
-Latest News
-Core Team List
-Products
-Product 1
-Product 2
-Product 3
I found Sharepoint a whole new and strange world. I thought i'm good at learning, until i met Sharepoint. Everything seems very detailed and i'm living difficulties in finding useful information quickly. Because i have no Sharepoint background and i don't event know what i'm lookin' for.
Could you please help me by telling me how can i accomplish this or even just telling me the name of "thing" that i'm trying to accomplish.
Thank you in advance.
PS. Oh, by the way, I learned the word Branding in my search for the holy grail. I don't even know that the word fits or not...
I did try the method you post on other page (Restaurant review site in SharePoint) but unfortunately i couldn't succeed. I stucked at choosing what type of content type in the "Create Content Type" page at first and then tried some parent types but i couldn't get it show up in Sharepoint Designer 2007's New Sharepoint Content "Publishing Page" dialog.
So i tried something else.
At my homepage created a new Document Library of type "Web Part Page" called "Products". It created me a some sort of list whose all items are web pages. At this point i felt that i'm near to accomplish something at last.
Here are some questions i've collected: :)
I add two Announcements web part to different "Products" pages. When I add a new announcement to the list from one product page, it shows up in the other one too! How can I make their content only visible in page that the content created on?
*[Theming is a recurring theme in my posts]* Is it possible to change the view of each Product page at this setup so they have different design and color?
Thanks.
Check out the links I posted in the answer to this question for some links to SharePoint 101 tutorials online:
Restaurant review site in SharePoint
Given you're looking for 'branding' that will mean a custom Master Page. A Master Page is what will determine the overall layout of your SharePoint Web Application's pages. After creating a standard SharePoint application, connect with SharePoint Designer and play with that Master Page for a while until you get the hang of it.
In modifying or creating custom Master Pages, it is important to take note of all the controls (special ASP.NET server-side tags) in particular Content Place Holders; if you create your own Master Page and these are missing you're in a world of uninformative-error-message hurt.
You're going to want to create Lists ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA011199881033.aspx ) to represent 'News' and 'Products'... for Products you may even want to create a Content Type.
Once you create 'News' and 'Products' lists, to see those lists of Products you'll want to make views and use List View Web Parts ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100240521033.aspx ) to include those views in Pages... but at the subject of Web Parts this is probably getting a bit overwhelming so I'll stop here. Comment me if you'd like more.
Addendum
"Is is possible to show only categories of a document library in home page and documents of the selected category in another page?"
-> Yes, and there are several ways. I'd suggest you look into either defining a View for that list which filters based on the category field, then add List View Web Parts to your home page, or writing custom XSLT for the Content Query Web Part, and then add it to your home page. Writing the XSLT for he Content Query web part is a little more difficult, but using the List View has it's short comings in being not-as-configurable, much like this guy is finding out: No-code solution for calendar view of SharePoint news items
"But how can i change a list item to show its details as a whole new page with its own web parts and theme?"
-> Here's the kicker; in SharePoint, each Site you create has a special list for Pages, and each Page actually belongs to a Content Type.
So you can take any content type and turn it into a page; all you have to do is create a Page Layout for it, and add that Content Type to the list.
(So, an example. This is purely speculative; I'm not saying do this specifically, and you probably can't do it exactly as I describe it as I'm oversimplifying a little)
You create a Content Type 'Product', but you also decide 'Category' should be a Content Type too. So you create a content type for 'Catagory', and you give it a lookup column, which refers to items in the 'Product' List. You specify that the lookup can contain multiple items.
Now you want a Page where people can see a category, and all the Products which belong to it. You create a 'Page Layout' (an aspx file) for the 'Catagory' Content Type. In the Page Layout aspx file you can include web controls which render the Catagory's fields, such as 'title' and 'description' and you can probably even add one to render the 'Products' lookup field. (maybe you'll have to code it yourself)
I hope I haven't lost you.
Now that you've created a Page Layout for 'Catagory' you can add 'Catagory' to the Pages list/library and then create pages which represent Catagories, and when people edit those pages, they will also edit the Catagory.
More Addendum
If "Announcements" is a list, the web part you added was a list view web part, and so it just shows the contents of the list (which is independent of the product pages)
You'll want o specify filters of your view. I dunno if you can specify unique filters on the web part... but you can try :)
You might want to consider looking into The Content Query Web Part.
I don't fully understand your second question, but I get the feeling the answer is yes... what do you mean by "view"? You gotta be careful with the lingo; do you mean the Page Layout? or the List View Web Part? or the List View? or the Master Page? ...
you HAVE to check out Heather Solomon. She is the shiznat when it comes to sharepoint branding.
A good start would be using Sharepoint Designer.
Use SharePoint Designer to do your CSS work, particularly in discovering the CSS rules in play. DO NOT publish the finished work from SD; if you do, future Windows Updates may wipe out your files. Instead, deploy your customizations as a Feature. In MOSS 2007, you can add a single custom CSS file using Central Admin - this will then be applied AFTER core.CSS at runtime, To the best of my knowledge, this is the only practical way of doing this.
You need to indicate whether you are using WSS or MOSS. With WSS, you can use themes.
I'm creating an archive of news articles in a sharepoint publishing site. users can browse or search the archive. browsing is a simple list of article dates titles. I'm using the DataFormWebPart to display the contents of the Pages (articles). as there are thousands of articles, i'l like to show maybe 50 on a page. I see no built in paging on the DataFormWebPart. I'm seeking guidance on the proper way to add paging. I'm feeling like the XSL template is the proper place to start.
If you look at the page using the sharepoint designer in 'design' mode, you can click the common task arrow ( > ) and customize the data view properties.
One of the tabs will be about 'paging' and you can set how many items per page.
Hope this helps!
The XSL template is where you need to start. Unless you are dealing with multiple data sources setting a list as the datasource on a new DataFormWebPart in SharePoint Designer (SPD) will create an XSL template with paging (10 items default). You can then review and edit the XSL if you want to modify the appearance or operation. After the initial XSL template take a look at the webpart properties in either the browser or SPD. There are some other settings (e.g. async) that you may want to alter. The paging technically works with mutiple data sources but it is only on the parent data source. If the child count is large it often times is too large to see the paging control in SPD.