After creating a theme for my new OrchardCMS site, I've got two other sets of templates I'd like to create (not sure if template is the right word). Basically I want to say "use this template for all tag & blog archive rollup pages".
I could create a separate layers for each blog month archive and tag and add the HTML widget to the top of the page with the heading info, but that's just not feasible... I'd like to make it more dynamic.
Looking for what would be the best approach here. I'm wondering if a custom module that adds a few widgets. Then I could create two layers: one for blog archives & one for tags. The module could have two widgets, one for the blog archives, one for the tags. They could then dynamically add the stuff to the top of the page.
Thoughts?
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Our Marketing department would like a way to tag and search (perhaps a couple thousand) images.
IT is moving everyone away from file shares, and we have a bunch of free space in SharePoint; so that is looking like a good option, but I am running into some problems.
I have created a Picture Library and uploaded some pictures to test with. I've added a Managed Metadata column for the tags.
The issue is that Marketing would like to be able to bulk tag photos with existing tags, and to have those tags added rather than overwriting the existing tags.
I have been following this tutorial, which seems like it would get me exactly what I need, but I am not able to select a range of records to tag, and I am not getting the "Add these terms to all selected fields" option. Instead of "Quick Edit" I only have "Edit in grid view". Otherwise, the screenshots in the tutorial make it look like I'm on the same version of SharePoint. I'm using SharePoint Online.
The screenshot below is from the tutorial. I do not get the options in the first image, but I get the very same screen as in the second image.
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Within OrchardCMS, is there any way to automatically migrate the contents of a BodyPart into a LayoutPart? And if so, how?
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I am upgrading an old Orchard instance (v1.8.x) that used the old BodyPart. The goal is to update OrchardCMS to the current release, and with it, migrate to the new Layout system added in v1.9. Enabling the Layout module will add the LayoutPart to content items such as Page, but the two parts both exist on the Content Definition, and moving content from the BodyPart to the LayoutPart seems to be a manual process. Is there any way to automatically migrate content from the BodyPart to the LayoutPart, perhaps even if it was nested within a single Grid->Row->Column(12)->HTML block? And if so, how?
I think you should be able to do this with a little bit of playing around and a little bit of find & replace in your code editor. I would take an empty new site and export two pages, one with content in the BodyPart and one with content in the LayoutPart they way you want it to look. You should be able to see how they are different, I haven't looked at how they export recently, but I think the body part html is contained in a pretty simple xml tag while the layout part includes some code to designate all the elements, with the html contained inside.
Next step is to export all the content from your site (using import/export) and use a good text editor to convert all the body parts into layout parts using find & Replace.
Finally, import the edited file back into the site.
I haven't tried any of this so obviously have a database backup handy and test this out in a dev environment first. Also, I'm guessing that if you follow the directions above you will end up with duplicate content in the body and layout, so you probably want to make sure your import has an empty body tag for each page.
I am new to drupal views. I know how to basically use views from from end i.e creating some views.
I wanted to know if i can create a view from my module and how do i theme a view that i have created.
Is there any clear ebook or something regarding this. I tried 1 book, But i felt it was not good explanation in it.
This is a fairly large subject. There are a lot of tutorials for Views & Panels out there.
Here's a link to the blog of the Views module author Angry Donuts, you'll find a link to the book he has written.
Have you checked drupal.org? You should find links to video tutorials and a lot of info about Views.
Is the question about theme views or programmatically create it? you can theme view by adding your own custom template for view, view field, view list, etc etc etc.
Now, create view or go edit some, at Basic settings, press Theme:information, and you'll see active template for each element of the view. So, you can copy required views template from views/theme folder to your_active_theme/templates, give it proper name (as written in Information pane), and press rescan in Theme: information.
After this, you should see your template highlighted.
That's actually it.
As for programmatic way of working with views, I suggest to create view via interface, and then call in in your module, and theme as you wish.
Please see this post for details.
We are creating a site template that among other things has a Document library with MANY sub folders and a Link list that contains shortcut links to the depths of the DocLib. While making the Site template we are checking the box to 'Include Content.' We are using Sharepoint 2010. No MOSS.
Our problem: Once we make a site from the template, the shortcut links don't work. While the first part of the link URL is rewritten, there is a portion of the original site name still buried in the URL.
My Question: Is there a way to create a relative links to content inside of the site, so that the the site name isn't included? or is there a variable I can use to represent th current site? or do I have to programmatically 'fix-up' the links after it's created? or some other better option?
There is a way, but you will have to do your work in master pages. The following tag is rendered in a sharepoint 2010 master page as ahref, and the relativity is passed on to sites created as templates.
<SharePoint:SPLinkButton runat="server" NavigateUrl="~site/SitePages/dashboard.aspx" id="v3idNavLinkTrackerDash" Text="Now is the time for all good men." />
I think you may have come across one of the many limitations of using templates. I don't know of any way to change this behavior when using templates.
However, you mentioned programming. If you are deploying customizations, you might look into site definitions or feature stapling with code to populate the list.
On the no code side, you might have some options if there is some flexibiility in execution of the site. If you really need the sub folders and the template method, you might look at replacing the link list with a page. If the page content is a list of links, they will be relative. If your structure is flexible, another option is to remove the sub folders. You could add a field for category that you can group by instead. Or, you could create seperate document libraries instead of using folders.
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.
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"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.