I created a form to display a specific report instead of a view. iwant the form to locate into the directory folder in which views located. for eg I have a view at 1. Reports\a. Quarterly Reports, I want the reports be to located at 1. Reports\b. No of Request per Country(this is the form). So that when I view the reports they are only in one location. Is this possible?
Ken has good points about the design of the solution. If you need more direct assistance, then I can offer the following solution.
As you're now using a variety of design elements. You need to unify it using a frameset and an outline. Framesets in Notes are the generally the same as their web counterpart. The great thing with Notes is that you can easily add this to your current design.
I would recommend the following order of tasks.
Create the outline. Instructions here
Create the frameset and connect the outline to it. Instructions here.
Set the database launch properties so the frameset loads up when people open the database. Instructions here.
Even though the links point to Lotus Notes version 6, the functionality is still applicable in version 7 and 8. The only other point I would make is that when you click on an outline element it needs to know where the target location to display the data. You define this on the frames in the framesets. Just look at the menu option "Frames" and select "Frame properties" or "Frameset properties" respectively.
You can use a Notes Outline to manage this. Set one up for your database, if you haven't already, and use it as your left-hand navigation in your frameset. If you aren't sure what I'm talking about, try creating a new database based on the Document Library template and take a look at the design. It'll have a frameset, and on the left frame it'll have a Notes Outline.
Once you have your database setup like that, you can control what the user sees in that outline by creating hierarchical outline entries. You can link views, pages, and forms to your outline entries and that way you can have your 1. Reports\a. Quarterly Reports view showing next to your 1. Reports\b.No of Request Per Country form (report).
Even better, you can use different names. Since an Outline manages its order, you don't need to name your entries 1., 2., etc to get them to show in a certain order. You can name them whatever you like and rearrange them in the Outline design screen.
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I am working on our intranet that utilizes a custom .master page. One content placeholder that refers to the search functionality of SharePoint is being utilized in the footer ().
In our site mockup, we envisioned two search boxes, one in the top of the site, above the nav and one in the footer. I thought, easy, I just duplicate that content placeholder which brought up a duplication error from Sharepoint.
My question is this: Is there a way to duplicate content placeholders without needing to create a custom placeholder? And if not, is creating a custom placeholder the best way to go about this?
Thank you in advance!
There are many ways to customize this.
Direct master page change
Add (custom) place holder to master page
Use delegate controls (no master page change required)
Delegate controls allow you to create a regular user control (.ascx) and assign it a sequence number so that it becomes attached to an existing master page control. Using delegates could potentially allow you to attach the same user control to two different controls (delegates).
With all the recent "don't change the master page" buzz, it is becoming ever more relevant, although for on-premise scenarios, you can be a bit more eccentric.
Not only you can't duplicate place holders, but you should also be very careful while removing or even adding existing place holders, no matter how irrelevant they may appear to be. Even their original order matters (e.g. PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea, PlaceHolderLeftNavBar).
refs,
http://blog.sharepointexperience.com/2013/08/missing-apps-you-can-add-with-custom-master-page-in-sharepoint-2013/
http://www.eliostruyf.com/missing-apps-can-add-zone-adding-new-app/
http://www.eliostruyf.com/document-set-view-not-visible-in-sharepoint-2013/
examples,
https://zimmergren.net/sp-2013-some-new-delegatecontrol-additions-to-the-sharepoint-2013-master-pages/
http://www.fivenumber.com/understanding-sharepoint-delegate-control/
I want to create a custom value picker which can have:
Same labels
Can't use simple Domino view value picker as I need to check individual entry for some business criteria
I want to show a short summary as well to help user distinguish among similar labels (I want to add some formatting to it e.g. label in bold, summary in green small chars)
I can create an Xpage for all such value pickers or I can have a custom data provider. Now, my question is, do I need to create a custom renderer as well to display Label with summary? How do I implement the picker with modal look-n-feel (I am using bootstrap theme)?
Thanks in advance
Arun
Version 12 of the Extension Library included the code I contributed for Map Picker Data Provider and Collection Picker Data Provider. Implementing data provider outside the Extension Library packages is quite complicated - there are a lot of methods used for getting options etc that are protected, so they need reproducing. They're currently designed to take a label and value only, so they would need extending to take a summary as well.
I don't think the picker can take HTML as a picker option - that would allow you to pass in the formatting for the label and the summary. I've not tried it, but if it was allowed it would impact searching etc, so that makes me suspect it's unlikely.
Creating a renderer with bootstrap look and feel is possible. I'd recommend looking at the Extension Library renderers. It looks like the picker renderers handle the link on the page and separate classes handle the dialog that's displayed.
I am kind of new to SharePoint. I am learning it on the go and learned about the concept of pagelayout and publishing features on the site. But I am not really 100% sure what is the difference between a WebPartPage, SitePage and PublishingPage. I kind of know what all these pages be used for, but what I not get is: why do they need to separate all these pages?
I think we can just get a publishing page and have all the feature there including webpart and everything else (with our choice of PageLayout). However I dont see a way to use a pagelayout on a particular SitePage.
Is there any particular reasons for using either one of them? Even though it seems like one of them can serve as all of them?
You should use page layout when ever you know the page structure. For example you are running an online news paper. You want to show the news to the users into three columns. First column is for menu, second column is for news content and third column is for advertisements. Now in your daily usage this layout is common. So you can use this page layout for entering the news. After creating the page layout you can make it as a default to your pages. Page layout is nothing but the structure of a page simply!!
A webpart page does not have a field for content directly on the page like a SitePage has. A Publishing Page is like a SitePage, but requires extra fields for dealing with the publishing extra features.
Using a single layout for all three risks being confused as to why one page does not work the same as another when it has the same layout (the difference would be the underlying features are different.).
I will make a comparison with cars. There are three type of cars, each is better suitable for a certain purpose: tractors for farming, buses for public transport, light cars for private transport. You could use a tractor for all the purposes above but it's not ideal.
"One of them can serve as all of them". This is not true in their current implementation. I'll give you one example: prefer Web part pages against Publishing pages to better control content added by contributors in an intranet. There are many other examples.
When using the Ext.Lib Name Picker control connected to the NAB, the default is to view the first 50 entries from selected view (depending on whether groups/Persons is selected in property).
But there are no scroll/paging buttons on the dialog.
If I want to pick an entry from the NABPicker and the entry is after the first 50 I must use the Search button to find it.
Is this working as designed or a feature not yet added?
/Mike
You might be interested in using the viewpicklist control from openntf instead, link
It is very felxable, just set it to use the names.nsf and whichever view you need.
As far as I know this is working as designed. The server only returns a set number of entries so that the amount of data transfered when opening the Name Picker dialog box is kept nice and small, this way the dialog box opens faster.
You can increase the number of entries returned by increasing the maximum limits in the server document and internet site document and then increasing the maxRowCount attribute on the picker but you will seriously affect the performance of your application and it is not recommended.
Hopefully in a future release of the control they will add some sort of ajax based scroll similar to the inbox scroll in iNotes.
Mike:
I think the answer is "both". Working as designed and feature not added yet...
The Ext Lib is a open source initiative designed to support the simplistic Discussion, Team Room, and Document Library applications. The designers have limited experience with more complex applications and clearly limited exposure to large address books in their development arena.
The NAB pickers are a source a major disapointment to those of us trying to build larger scale applications. Perhaps at some point it will become a usable component but is is only marginally usable at this point.
/Newbs
I want to hide or make some fields read only on editform.aspx. I follwed the example on this page, but without deliting the "original" webpart list. I hide the original webpart and created a new custom list from the original list. Then i was able to apply xsl on the custom list to hide or to make the field "read only". Unfortunately the recurring events stopped working or where totaly messed up. Some times i've got error messages when I clicked on specific event in calendar view. The calendar list works fine and the fields are hidden or disabled in "Edit mode" when the event is not recurring. My question is. Is there any other way to hide or disable the items for specific security group or sharepoint group on calendar list?
If SharePoint Designer is an option, then this blog post from Laura Rogers shows how you can display SharePoint fields by permission level. It should work with a calendar list.
This will give you complete control over the solution without the need for a third-party product.
Two tools I've run across to do what you're looking for:
SPListDisplaySetting - "SharePoint feature (for WSS 3.0 and MOSS) providing advanced settings to customize list form rendering in new, display and edit mode."
You can specify that certain fields only show up on edit, new, or display pages and only for certain groups, or to hide them completely.
My only problem with this is that the installer doesn't quite work. However, a user has posted working instructions on the discussion board.
SharePoint Tool Basket - List Columns Manager - "This feature allows site collection administrators to view all the columns of a list including hidden/read-only ones and gives column details such as the internal name, Guid, Type.."
I found a pretty nice solution at Cleverworkarounds. The code is writen in javascript so the script does not actually remove the fields, which in my case is necessery, but it does hide the fields. Me, I need to stick to SharePoint List Form Extensions due to some sensitive data our customers have and want to be remove for some users. Laura Rogers solutions is good too, but with Cleverworkarounds you don't need to use Sharepoint Designer.
One option is to download the Sharepoint Manager from CodePlex. Install it on the server (it uses the object model) and you get simple access to a whole heap of stuff including, on a per-field-per-list basis, whether a specific column is hidden in it's entirety (even from the list settings), or hidden from the display form, the edit form or both. It's a matter of setting a true/false dropdown and clicking save. There is also the option for making columns readonly too.
It's all or nothing in terms of permissions though - whatever you choose applies to everyone who can access that area.
You can hide items in the calendar list using JQuery. Please follow the steps below:
- From the Calendar tab Customize List category select -> Form Web Parts -> Default New Form
- Select the Insert tab and from Web Parts category -> click Web Part.
- Choose Media and Content, then choose Content Editor and click Add.
- Place the Content Editor below your form and click inside the Content Editor
- Click on Format Text tab -> Markup category -> Click on HTML -> Edit HTML Source
Add the following code:
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
$("td.ms-dttimeinput").hide();
$("span[title='All Day Event'] > input").attr("checked","checked");
$("tr:has(span[title='Recurrence'])").not("tr:has(tr)").hide();
$("tr:has(span[title='All Day Event'])").not("tr:has(tr)").hide();
$("tr:has(span[title='Workspace'])").not("tr:has(tr)").hide();
});
</script>
The above code also puts the "All Day Event" to be checked true.
Hope this would be useful ..
I think it is little bit hard to do that. Otherwise there should be not so much such third party tools like SharePoint Column View Permission, Bamboo also has such tool.
Take a look at this if you want make it happen through code stackoverflow.com/questions/1058232. But I am not sure it works in calender.