I´m searching for a way to display the userimage next to the name of a Blog-comment in sharepoint 07. First idea was to add a Image column to the comment list and use a add event to fill it, but this would not catch a change of the userimage and I still have no control over the rendering.
Thanks for any suggestion
ren
To make a long Story short , there seems to be no simple Solution to achieve this.
The Listview for the comments can not be bend to show userimages.
Finally I had to create a own webpart to show the Post and the corresponding comments, but be warned. You have to search all comments associated with the Post and get the Userprofile for each user that left a comment.
Even I get Linq to work with MOSS07 the performance for large Blogs might suffer
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I want to know if I can click a button in my XPage and dynamically create a Domino View and then show it in a panel control on the same page. The reason I want to do this is because I have a categorized view and I don't want to lose category data by using full text search. So I am thinking of creating a new view dynamically and pass my search parameters, like end date or start date, into the view selection formula.
Is it possible? Any other alternative solution is also welcome.
yes you can, but you don't want to. A Domino view takes space in the database and quite some time for its first use. So you end up with a lot of views taking space and the need to adjust database space after removal. Your response times will suck big time.
Categories as shown in Notes views are no web interaction pattern, so you might want to solve a problem that actually shouldn't exist.
The preferred method for Domino application is navigation / drill down over search. But you could do a FTSearch where you add your category to the search parameters and render your results in a repeat control instead of a view control. There you have more control over the look and feel.
Whether or not it's the best solution, the answer to the immediate question about creating a view on the fly is yes: the Database class has a couple "createView" methods to allow you to create a new view, either entirely from scratch or based on a named other view. From there, you can use the "setSelectionFormula" and "createColumn" methods in the created View to build what you want. You can't do EVERYTHING with those methods, but it may be enough.
One problem you'd likely run into is ACL access: you'll need Designer rights to the database, which a normal user most likely wouldn't have. If you use the sessionAsSigner object to fetch a signer version of the DB (say, "var signerDB = sessionAsSigner.getDatabase(database.getServer(), database.getFilePath())"), you can work from there. Off the top of my head, I don't remember if you will also have to up the "Maximum Internet access" setting on the last tab of the ACL to Designer as well, but you may.
I am assuming that you are referring to the problem that exists when you choose the documents based on the category. This is something that I find highly annoying and I wish that it was possible to turn this on and off. It makes sense for embedded views, but not for much else.
What I did to solve this was to include the category value in the next column. In this way that text could still be seen, even if it was a flat view.
Alternatively, you could also look into using a repeater control and create your own way of presenting the information. This would be used instead of a (Dynamic)ViewPanel control. You could then present the information any way you wanted as long as it is returned in the viewrow set.
Happy Programming!
There is a lot of questions about binding data to forms. This is very simple. I have a form that uses several computed fields that pull data using an #DbLookup to populate the fields based on a pulldown menu the user selects. The problem is; none of the computed fields save any of the values into the form that it is bound to. The only data that saves on the form is the data that is manually selected (in the case of the pulldown menu) or manually entered. When I use an edit box and don't make it "Read Only" the data saves fine. Why is this so difficult?
Mark -
Couple approaches here I think... but let's walk though something.
Read Only on the edit box is preventing the save. It makes sense. XPages should not try to save something marked "read only".
As Steve says, you're better off here with a computed field. Set the values however and if their bound to the document then I think they will save fine.
Another approach is is to work with scoped variables. When you get your data points... you can put that into scoped variables like:
viewScope.put("myField", myValue)
then you're computed field could be bound to the viewScope variable "myValue".
however this will of course not save back to the document as it's not bound to the document. So what you do if you want that approach is in the document save event... you then use SSJS to assign the values to the doc then. something like:
document1.replaceItemValue("myfield", viewScope.get("myField");
Since xpages basically has the same document events as notes client. This may seem familiar to you.
Hope this helps.
Dave -
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Disclamer: I'm answering this from a plane after a trip to Las Vegas. So please factor that into the quality of my answer. :)
You will want to put the data you receive from the #DbLookup in an edit box field(s). A computed field is like a "Computed for display" field in traditional Notes development. You can choose whether to allow the user to change the values or not by the read-only property.
Also see this question if you want the values read-only which it sounds like you do: ReadOnly field in Xpage not submitted
As usual, Dave steered me to something that worked. Being in the larval stages of JavaScript experience, I'm sure there is a better way to do this. I'm just happy it works. Her is the code I put into the QuerySave event of my Xpage.
var cost1 = getComponent('ItemCost1').getValue();
var uom1 = getComponent('UOM1').getValue();
var Num1 = getComponent('ItemNum1').getValue();
var tot1 = getComponent('Total1').getValue();
docuent1.replaceItemValue("ItemCost_1", cost1),
document1.replaceItemValue("ItemUOM_1", uom1),
document1.replaceItemValue("ItemNum_1", Num1),
document1.replaceItemValue("CostTotal_1", tot1)
I have 30 iterations of this so it probably works kind of clunky but the operative word is WORKS. If anyone has a better way to get the same results, please post it so I can learn something. Thanks for everyone's help.
Quick question. I want to generate code with SPMetal that includes the UniqueId field (the field that has the GUID for the list item), but somehow in Visual Studio I end up with either:
A list without that field
A list that in theory has that field (UniqueIdUniqueId.. why is it named that way?), but when I try to run it, throws me a NullException.
I'm using Sharepoint 2010, VS 2010.
Can you point me in the right direction? I'm stalled right now. I would paste you the XML file I've been using as parameters to SPMetal, but my servers are down right now. I'll post it ASAP, but if anyone has the answer on how to generate a class that includes that particular field, I'd be thankful.
Thanks!
The solution was: use the "GUID" hidden field. Duh.
I think is no way to include 'UniqueId', because is not a part of any content type.
If this realy need to get 'UniqueId', try write SQuery, which get item by ID with one viewField (to maximize performance).
I'm having a hard time figuring out how to refer to a specific Item List within a list in SharePoint. I looked up the page in SharePoint Designer and found that the listitem is inside a custom made webpart inside a custom made webpage. I'm coding an event receiver and need to read the information that the user types into that listitem which is a textbox. Does anyone know the code to do this or how to get the guid for the specific list item?
I would appreciate any help I can get. I have tried looking all over the web for the answer. Thanks.
It might be a good idea to edit your question with exactly what you'd like to do with the information you read. However from what you've said so far:
The ID of the item being edited will already be passed through to the event receiver via SPItemEventProperties so there is no need to look it up. If you need to look up a different item in the list (or indeed in a different list altogether), the Accessing list items using the object model page on SharePoint Dev Wiki gives you all of the options. A good general rule is use SPQuery to get best performance on the whole.
Note: There is a pretty good page on the SharePoint Dev Wiki demonstrating how to write an event receiver. It shows how to query and obtain a list item title.
Update after comments:
Once you have an SPListItem object, you can find its GUID through the UniqueId property. In the "Accessing lists" wiki link I've provided above the code samples show how to use the Title property.
Every piece of data you need to access within SharePoint should be available through the object model. This is a simplification, but generally the pages themselves are rendered from template files on the server and combined with data in the database to display to the user. So editing the page programmatically or through its source isn't going to work.
Apologies if I'm making an incorrect assumption but you sound fairly new to SharePoint development. I strongly recommend you read at least the first few chapters of Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as the inner workings of SharePoint are important to get a good understanding of and this book should help a lot. There is a section of event receivers in it as well.
Have you looked at SharePoint.ListsService Webservice?
string url = "WSS Site URL";
SharePoint.ListsService.Lists lists = SharePoint.ListsService.Lists(url);
XmlNode list = lists.GetList("ListName");
XmlNode xlists = lists.GetListCollection();
I've got a requirement to hold a DateTime value in a SharePoint field but to customise the display in a list view so that it shows as a mmmm string. The underlying value must remain as the DateTime so the sort is chronological rather than alphabetical.
So I think that a Custom Field is the way to go, I'll also get some added benefit in restricting the user interface to a month picker so even if there is another solution I'll likely go down this route to get that.
I've read that I can apply custom templates to the new, edit and display actions but I can't seem to find anything saying how to alter the list view (display patterns doesn't seem to be enough).
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Justin
I dont know if this is what you are looking for but I have used a solution with a custom fieldcontrol that overrides RenderFieldForDisplay like:
protected override void RenderFieldForDisplay(HtmlTextWriter output)
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