So I created this web part page on sharepoint, but everytime when I add a web part, the entire view gets squished into a narrow window. This makes it impossible to "modify shared web part" because all you can see on the menu pane are OK, Cancel and Apply. You can't fill in any detail or change anything from appearance to layout because you can't really see these options and put your mouse on them.
Thanks in advance for any help
I'm not sure if you want help with determine why this happens, or if you just want to get rid of the faulting web part?
If the latter, you can access the web part admin page by adding ?contents=1 to the URL to remove the web part in question.
This method is documented documented here.
http://<yourserverpath>/yourpage.aspx?contents=1
HTTP:\\MySPRootSite/pages/default.aspx?ToolPaneView=2
This will help u to forcibly display the page in edit mode.
I am struck with forcibly editing a web part in the page after the page is displayed in edit mode.
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I want to customize the SharePoint 2013 online(office 365) "About me" linked page (personimmersive.aspx) to a custom look and feel.
Even clicking on any SPUser name, for ex in a list item modified by is "John Smith" if we click on it goes to about me page.
This page resides under mysite but I cannot see this page is SharePoint 2013 designer to edit, but modifying SharePoint pages in designer is not always the best way.
Can I just create a new page and redirect all Profile page request to that custom page?
IF I create app parts and edit the page I cannot edit the top portion of the page.
redirecting may not be a feasible approach, specially on the online versions
you can try to take advantage of web parts and css to do what you can
The biggest change is that you can’t edit the entire top portion of
the page. These used to be in a web part zone, and you could choose to
add/remove the web parts. Now they are fixed, with no ability to move
them around or change the parts.
We had removed the Activity Feed web part previously because we were
using Yammer newsfeeds and group feeds embedded throughout the site,
and this part always showed “No activities”. Now this is back again,
with no way to remove it, short of editing the page in SharePoint
Designer.
There are still web part zones on the bottom, but really the problem
is no control over the display of most of the top of the page.
http://weshackett.com/2014/04/office-365-new-profile-page/
There is personImmersive.aspx in SharePoint Designer, you should be able to find it in All Files. Just make sure you connect to [your_domain]-my.sharepoint.com instead of [your_domain].sharepoint.com.
you can't customize the page completely.However you can add custom web part and custom css to change the look and feel to a great extent.
#tiago duarte you can still remove the activity web part.This can be done using script editor webpart and hiding the complete block/div.
On my sharepoint site I am unable to add an existing basic webpart to a page where I've added webparts before. I am a site owner. I am using IE 8. I also work remotely using VPN.
The strange thing is IE won't even open up the EDIT MODE.
When I use Google Chrome, it is able to open up EDIT MODE, and it was also able to open up the Add Web Part popup, but when you actually select a web part and press ADD...nothing gets added to the main page.
The extra strange thing is from Google Chrome, I am able to delete and modify existing webparts.
I've upgraded to IE 9 and the same issue still happens.
i assume the similar issue you would be facing with firefox it seems your css is not compliant with IE8 try using ie8 in campatibility mode or use following querystring parameter at end of ur url
toolpaneview=2 and see what is the result
I had that problem and it appeared that a CSS file was messing up with the Ribbon controls.
Try to disable a CSS file at a time.
Regards,
Pedro
We had this issue (or at least a very similar one) where, in edit page mode, clicking on 'Add a Web Part' had no effect. I was assuming that it is a JavaScript issue. In, I beleive, the same day, it effected both my Production and DEV Site Collections, in IE8, Firefox and Chrome. We restarted all of our servers and ran the config wizard. No good.
We were able to create new pages which seem to be uneffected.
For an existing page, our workaround is to edit the properties of the page, then, down at the bottom, select 'Open Page in Maintenance View'. Select one of the Web Parts and Close it. Note: It seems as though if you unselected the 'Allow Close' checkbox, it wont be on this list. Then click on the 'Go Back to Web Part Page'. Click on the zone where the closed Web Part was. You may now be able to 'Add a Web Part'. If so, the last Web Part folder on the left will be 'Closed Web Parts' which I beleive you can put back (Open) the closed Web Part.
I have see this issue occur when someone else has the current page open in edit mode. Until that person either checks in or undoes there checkout you will not be able to edit the page.
I have a very strange issue I just cannot figure out. I am not able to enter Edit Mode on my custom pages. Appending my URL with ?ToolPaneView=2 does nothing. Manipulating the Site Actions button to custom content and changing the MenuItem_EditPage to get the Edit Page button back bring the page into some kind of edit mode with the "Exit Edit Mode" button but still no toolbar or ability to manipulate web parts.
Anyone seen this before?
Thanks
My experience was that the page was created with the SharePoint Server Publishing feature turned on. The site feature was later deactivated and the page could not be edited. Re-activating the feature enabled editing.
I had it once when the page was checked out by the system user.
Discard the current check-out (and lose changes) and I could edit the page again.
I'm working on creating a reusable and extensible web application in SharePoint 2010. I've created a master page to apply across all pages in the site. However, whenever I create a web part page and navigate to it, the site icon does not display. Instead of my custom site icon being displayed it shows the default SharePoint icon. I can get around this by placing the icon directly into the master page, but that would require me to create a new master page if I ever wanted to extend this web application.
Does anyone know why this is happening? My initial thought was that the web part page had somehow been customized to not use the default master page, but that does not seem to be the case: if I update the master page it is reflected in the web part page.
Googling around and checking this site yielded little answers. I only found one post out there that reported the same issue I am observing but there was no solution.
If it helps, I did notice one phenomena when navigating to this page. Before the page completely loads, the correct site icon appears for a split second before being replaced with the default site icon. Hope that helps.
I ran into the same issue this morning and didn't want to create a custom master page just for this, but luckily it was quickly resolved by following admlcrunch's suggestion (on SharePoint 2010):
Go to the desire page
Click on the "Page" tab at the top
Click on the "Title Bar Properties" at the right (in the ribbon)
In the Image Link section on the right, paste in the image URL
Click OK
The only bad thing about this is, you have to update every Web Part page that you want custom icon image to display.
I was just having the same issue. Web Part Pages have their own icon that you can set.
To set the icon click Page > Title Bar Properties. This will open the Web Part Page Title Bar dialog. In this dialog there is an area to set the Image Link. You can set the icon here. I just copied the URL to the site icon.
Open the page in designer and remove the custom titlebar place holder:
[WebPartPages:TitleBarWebPart]
from the :
[asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea"]
Can this be done by setting a property?
I'd prefer that approach then to remove all security before re-adding it.
(As this may have other consequences.)
Another option I can think of is to replace the particular webpart dll with a temporary one, and restart the .net process, but that's not an approach I like at all.
What other options are there? AM I missing something obvious?
What i'm trying to do is find a way to disable a webpart while we update the underlying database schema it's using, for example.
So we'd ideally like to disable a specific webpart for all users, whether it's on a mysite, or a community site, make the required changes and then re-enable it.
Thus decreasing the downtime for users.
Whatever the solution is, we need to be able to do it across multiple front end servers, on potentially two farms easily.
Thanks for your help.
Go to Site Actions -> Edit Page
You get all the web parts edited. Click on the "Edit" dropdown of the Web Part you want to disable and choose "Close".
The web part disappears, but don't fear! It's not gone for good!
To have it back:
-> click to Add a new Web Part -> Advanced Web Part Gallery and Options.
The very first option you have is to choose among "Closed Web Parts". When clicking on that link, you will have displayed a list of all the web parts you had closed. Just add the one you want back!
In the web.config, you can set safe="false" for the SafeControl tag for the webpart. This will cause the web part to render an error message until you set it back to true.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287909.aspx
write code to set a value in property bag of the site, set the value through the code and in page lode of the web part check for the value of the property bag if set show the content else just skip.
hope you understood if not let me know i will make it clear.