Liferay page to auto-refresh? - liferay

We would like, for example, to have a page that displays a blog to refresh from time to time when a person leaves the page open.
Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to get a liferay page to auto-refresh at some interval? (preferably without having to create/modify a theme).

If you dont want to modify theme than just add new Web Contetn Display portlet to your page and create/select article that has only
<script type="text/JavaScript">
setTimeout("location.reload(true);",10000);
</script>
as content. Be sure to go to source view of your rich test editr field (if you use it).
Change 10000 (milliseconds) to your need.

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Orchard - access a content type through different URLs so they use different views

I'm trying to create a CSS documentation library in Orchard. I want to save a description, CSS snippet and HTML snippet against each content type. The first view would show the description and CSS and HTML code written out. The second view would show a preview of what the CSS and HTML look like rendered.
cssdocumentation.com/content/item1
cssdocumentation.com/content/item1/live-preview
I've created the content type and the first view. But I'm not sure how to create the second view. I can see if I can create the alternative URL I can use the Url Alternates module to create an overriding .cshtml
To create an alternative URL I've looked at the autoroute module but this only allows you to adapt a single URL (unless I'm missing something?) and I've looked at Alias UI but this forces me to manually create an alternative URL everytime I create a content item.
Is this possible in Orchard without writting too much C#? (I'm a frontend developer so I only dabble in the behind the scenes stuff)
Thanks for any help
Best solution is to do this within your own module. But as a secondary option instead of having a second page, combine this content with your first page and hide it with CSS. When the user clicks a button to navigate to the next step render the CSS/HTML result on the same page. You can do this in many ways, here are a few ideas:
Render the CSS/HTML result out straight away on the same page but hide it. Show it when the user clicks a button
using jQuery to render the result on the client side. More dynamic if you allow editing of the HTML and CSS.
Redirecting the user to the same page with specific url parameters which you can pick up in your alternate to modify the output.

Where can I find discussion board newform.aspx page to modify?

I have to modify text in discussion board new post page. Now it is showing "Items on this list require content approval. Your submission will not appear in public views until approved by someone with proper rights. More information on content approval."
I have to append some text to this message. I am trying to find discussion board newform.aspx page to modify. Please let me know where can I get that?
Assuming your discussion list is called "Public Discussion" at a site called "http://yoursite"
Connect to the site (http://yoursite) with sharepoint designer
Go to All Files -> Lists -> Public Discussion -> NewForm.aspx
Edit file
Look for <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
Add content as needed
Save file, it will warn you that you are about to save a customised layout.
The message you describe is injected by sharepoint's content approval framework. To custom the messsage, you will most likely need to use javascript to find the message box and change the text.
On my site the html xpath to the node is something like this:
//span[#id='part1']/table/tbody/tr/td[2]
On the file system it will be here:
$sphome / "Name of your discussion board" (this will be a folder) / Forms / newform.aspx
There is a similar question asked here. It describes custom template controls handle the display of this content.
There is also a link here that describes a solution to do this using css. This would allow you to hide the OOB text and then have your own content displayed instead. However, there is some question of it working on broswers other than IE so include this in your testing.

Hide username and date in Drupal page

I need to make a completely blank page in Drupal. If I don't give body of the page then it is showing the username and date as must. Is there any way to hide this information?
Or can I get the method which generates the contents of a page?
Thanks
Yes, you need to go to the admin panel. In Site building->Themes->Configure->Global Settings there's a box titled "display post information". Tick or untic the content types where you want to show/hide the info.
If you want to do it the hard way, then yes, there is a way of doing it in PHP. In your theme code, you can create a template for either your content type or even an individual page (node-24.tpl.php, where 24 is your node's NID). There, you can write anything you consider necessary, like:
<?php
echo "<h2>$title</h2>";
echo $content;
This will display only the page title and the page body, with no additional sweetness whatsoever :).

Create a Sharepoint page but don't show in breadcrumb

I'm struggling to do something which I thought should be straight forward, basically I need to create an aspx page which I now realise must be put into a document library but the problem I have is it's only one page and when the page is displayed the breadcrumb has a link to the document library.
We really don't want the users to be able to get to the library via the breadcrumb and just want to show the page. From one of my other questions some other helpful people made some suggestions like putting the file in the _layout directory but this won't work because the new page has a master page associated with it.
Any ideas how I can display the custom page but not allow normal users to navigate to the document list?
Thanks!
Dan
Having a master page associated with an ASPX page does not prevent it from being placed in the _layouts directory. All of my ASPX pages use a custom master page I wrote, and they're all stored in the _layouts directory. But there's enough methods to hide the breadcrumbs without changing the storage location.
If you want to hide the breadcrumbs on only a specific page, the simplest method to do so is to prevent the contents of the breadcrumbs from being displayed. On the default master page (and I'm going assume that your master page also has this), there is a content called "PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb", which is what displays the breadcrumb. By overriding this in the ASPX file, you can prevent this from displaying. A simple way is to just insert the following line in your ASPX file:
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb" runat="server"> </asp:Content>
By being in the page itself, it becomes a custom version of the breadcrumb instead of the master page's, so it won't evaluate itself and will leave you with a blank line. The will keep content inside the table cell, so it will specifically make a blank line occupy the same space that the breadcrumbs normally would. If you just put an empty content there, then it will instead render nothing there and pull all of your content upwards. Up to you if you think that looks better.
As far as where to place the line, I recommend just beneath the following lines, if your ASPX page has them. If you don't have the following lines, you might have to experiment a bit to find what position works properly.
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageImage" runat="server">
<IMG SRC="/_layouts/images/blank.gif" width=1 height=1 alt="">
</asp:Content>

Can I read the search scope selected in SharePoint from code behind

I have a search box web part. In that web part I have created an instance of SearchBoxEx like
SearchBoxEx par=new SearchBoxEx
par.goImageUrl=""
par.DropDownMode= DropDownModes.DisplayScopeDD;
Button sear= new Button();
sear.Click += new EventHnadler(sear_Click);
I have added a button to that search Box web part.Now I have to read the scope selected in the SearchBoxEx in the sear_Click event.Can anyone please guide me in the right direction
Any help would be really appreciated.
You could read the Request.QueryString["s"] parameter, even when it is a post, the SearchBoxEx adds it.
Edit
Based on the comments and new info, are you using 'pure' javascript? This would be a jquery example:Search
WARNING: You should change the site masterpage INSIDE your site with SharePoint designer, not the one in the C:\Program Files\etc... folder. You could also navigate to the http://yourportal/_catalogs/masterpage library and download a copy of the default.master to change it then upload it back to the library, do all this carefully, you can break your sharepoint very easily.
Insert above the </HEAD> tag in your masterpage:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function newSearchResultsPageWithScope()
{
var scope = $(".ms-sbscopes select").val();
location.href = "/CustomResultsPage.aspx?s=" + scope;
}
</script>
The jquery portion is pretty straightforward, it gets the <td> with the class="ms-sbscopes", and the <select> element under it, then it sets the 'scope' variable to the selected value of the scopes dropdown.
Also, customizing the masterpage in a sharepoint site is fine, do not worry with that.

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