i was trying to understand in the Kentico's database model how can i change the web parts content using a database script.
So, basically i have a website based on Kentico with several articles, and internal hyperlinks in its content. But the problem is that the format of those hyperlinks are actually invalid. And i was looking for a way to build a script and do a bulk-update in order to replace some characters and update those hyperlinks to the valid format.
Any idea how can i build the query to get the content of all web parts used in all published pages.
Thank you
It depends on your web parts and how the content is rendered. There are different ways that web parts render their content:
The web part layout is used for markup
The ASCX file for the web part is used for markup
The web part makes use of a repeater that uses a Transformation to render the markup- The markup is generated in code behind
The last one can be tricky to change depending on the web part and whether you have access to all the code behind, but the others you can change either in code in your solution or within the Administration area itself.
Doing this in SQL would probably require a combination of T-SQL XML support and regular expressions to find what you're looking for. you effectively need to look in the CMS_WebPart and CMS_WebPartLayout tables to find what you're looking for.
However, reading your query, I'm not 100% sure you're talking about web parts, (my apologies if you are) as you talk about links in the article content itself. If these are set using the Editable text web part, then you need to look in the CMS_Document table at the DocumentContent field to find the links to replace. But you then need to look at how to correctly format those links going forward so that you do not need to repeat this process later.
Note:
You need to be really careful when doing this in SQL to make sure that you don't create invalid XML. Things go bad when you do that.
This won't flush your cache, so you'll need to clear your cache manually afterwards.
If you're using out-of-the-box web parts, you should really make a copy of them and use the copy if you're going to modify, this way, you're less likely to have pain in future upgrades.
Typically "content" is not set in a webpart. Webparts are configured to retrieve content from page types. There is an exception to this with specific webparts like Editable Text, Static Text, Static HTML, etc.
The configuration of a webpart is stored at the template level in the cms_pagetemplate table. The configuration for ALL webparts on that page template are stored in the PageTemplateWebParts field. So you'd have to parse through the XML and get the proper webpart and then perform an update on that field. You maybe able to do a regex to find that content and replace it as well.
Not ideal to do this via SQL simply because of version history and it can cause a lot of problems later on. I'd suggest finding out which API calls you can make to perform these updates and write a small program for it.
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I've never used Drupal before (development or managing content). I was asked to extend the admin content page to have a filter and simply don't know enough to get moving quickly.
Can anyone tell me if adding a search by text filter in the admin content area requires code or is there a CMS feature like adding a node for this task.
If code is required, is there something like a hook for this area? Not sure where to start. I will be investigating on my own but pointers to get me oriented to Drupal would help.
By default Drupal provides search mechanism ready to use. But there are also additional module which can improve search experience. You don't need any coding to use that search. You already have search form block ready to use.
Go to Structure -> Blocks and find block called "Search form". Now all you have to do is to put that block in some region and it will appear on front-end. Of course if it's not already styled by your theme it may be needed to put some extra CSS to make it look nice. There are also some template files which you can override and put some your HTML if you need.
There's also template file for search results page (which of course will work out of box also).
You may also need to create new block region if you want to place your form at some specific place, not covered by any existing region defined by your theme (easy thing to do!).
See https://drupal.stackexchange.com/q/30633/101329, the "Admin Views" module lets you configure the search form as you like.
I have a document library set up with multiple different categories of document, and I'm using a metadata column to differentiate between them.
I want to be able to display two different document library web part on a page for different categories of file side by side. This is simple for one category, I just set up a list view filtered by the metadata column, but when I add a second web part alongside the first, it breaks the first one.
I have no idea why this is happening, but it seems like SharePoint isn't happy with pulling two sets of data from the same document library.
When I am editing the web parts, I can get them to both display the documents I want, but then when I click save, the first web part empties.
Not sure what other information would be useful for diagnosing or helping with the problem, so if I haven't given enough detail let me know. I am familiar with SPD as well as developing through the web interface, so if this needs a more complex solution that's fine with me!
Having spent some more time playing around with this, it struck me that I could probably achieve what I wanted using something other than a Document web part, and I was right.
Instead of using the somewhat inflexible document web part, I created a content query web part which only searched within the document library from my site, and filtered by the metadata column.
This way I can create as many queries as I like and they don't interact with each other in weird ways. It also has the advantage of being significantly easier to customise the output without needing to resort to SharePoint Designer.
Content Queries are the answer!
A few times I've attempted to customize a SP2007 page using css, html, or javascript in Sharepoint Designer; however, in Sharepoint Designer I am not able to get direct access to the desired elements since they are generated by a Sharepoint Control (such as a web part or dataview) and appear only AFTER the page is rendered in the browser. I use use IE's F12 to tracked the element I wish to change. Then I can see an identifer such as name or id I can use in my javascript or css.
Example 1: SP2007 generates "name=ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$g_ba9196a9_2842_4607_b048_9a443cb4def5$ff2_1$ctl00$ctl00$BooleanField" for an input text box. I use that name to manipulate the text box as I desire.
Example 2: SP2007 generates "id=zz6_menu" for the "Welcome" text which I use to get the users full name.
So far this has worked out fine. Am I tempting fate?
Can someone refer me to a reference that discusses how these names and other Sharepoint Control element identifiers are generated?
Are they stable? Can I count on them to be the same provided the application I develop with my version of SP isn't updated to a later version of SP? And even if that case I'm thinking I can simply update to the identifiers created by the newer version of SP.
Is this a good practice? Any other comments?
All responses are welcomed.
Thanks.
SharePoint is based on ASP.NET and that's why the Ids are automatically genereated.
cf this article.
You should not use them to identify elements on css or js.
Do not write code that references controls using the value of the
generated UniqueID property. You can treat the UniqueID property as a
handle (for example, by passing it to a process), but you should not
rely on it having a specific structure.
In my opinion, the best way is to rely on the css classes because they are not automatically generated and should not change a lot.
Anyway, if you upgrade to SP2010 or 2013, lot of your modifications won't work anymore because the structure and css changed...
I would like to "customize" my sharepoint wiki by doing something very simple.
I would like to be able to run a regex on wiki pages looking for [math] and [\math] tags, then take the expression written in the middle (assume this value is stored in a variable x) and replace the whole block by
"<img src='http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?" + x +"'/>"
So for example, the shortcode [math]a^2+b^2=c^2[\math] should end up being displayed as an image as follows (thanks to this online tool):
I have never developed anything in sharepoint, and I've been using it for a week.
Can anybody tell me how I should proceed to add such a feature (if it's possible)?
You can use existing solution like ShortPoint.
Sure - this is simmply done via two methods - 1) You could modify the page directly using SharePoint designer - fly in the code where you want it, 2) The better way - add your code to text file, upload the text file to a document library then use the Content Editor web part, drop it on the page, point it (through the properties) to the text file.
Note: The Content Editor part will allow you to modify the background HTML/Script, however, it has a nasty habit of overriding your code and I've had it actually duplicate itself (adding repeat scripts). Using the Text file eliminiates that issue.
If i understand you correctly, I don't think that the content editor web part is the solution you are looking for. I believe you are wanting to implement a shortcodes solution such as that found in WordPress, correct? In that case, the issue becomes a bit more complex. To really get any kind of custom code that would execute at the necessary stages, you would need a custom solution either implementing additional functionality in the existing rich text editor, or roll your own custom rich text editor.
At that point, you would have complete control over how the content is parsed and interpreted, so you could have both server-side and client side processing. You could make use of templating engines like mustache or handlebars.
To do this, you would need to write your own Custom field type, inherit from SPFieldMultiLineText, override the property FieldRenderingControl, and return your custom control. That way you have the option of implementing it in several different places (custom pege fields in a page layout, custom webparts, custom lists, etc.) and you still get the benefits you want from the out-of-the-box control.
I'm a MOSS 2007 newbie and am trying to find out where a view is used.
I have a larger list and i want to have two different views into that list. I've inherited the site collection, and currently there are three views, with two of them named almost identically. Now i'd like to find out if i can safely remove one of those views.
So the question is: Is there a way to find out all references to a view?
I'll provide additional information gladly!
"First part of my problem is that i'd like to find out which view this web part is using."
"Second part is that i have a set of views made from a list, and i should find out if some web part is using some of those views"
A Web Part does not use a view directly. The current view of the web part is based upon a view, but if you change or delete the view, the web part still displays your list/library as before. Thus, if you delete your views, all web parts will still continue to function.
What you should probably do is compare your views (which fields are displayed, filtering, sorting, grouping, etc.) with each other and also with the view inside your web part. That way, you'll know which view was used before.
What could happen is that you break links to your view page. This is, if on some other page there is a direct link to your view.
What are you trying to do exactly? To get all the views of a specific list, use SPList.Views and load them in the SPViewCollection.