SharePoint 2010: Hiding the Recently Modified on Team Sites

I was asked today about hiding the Recenlty Modified menu from the quicklaunch of SharePoint 2010 Team Sites.

SharePoint 2010: Expand the User Profile info by default

Out of the box, the SharePoint 2010 User Profile page uses a bit of JavaScript to truncate the user’s info like Email, School etc. with a “more information” hyperlink that can be clicked to show all the info.  The user’s description text is also similarly semi-hidden on page load.

The following quick CSS hack can make both these detail areas fully visible by default, and also hide the “more information” / “hide information” hyperlink”:

SharePoint 2010: minimal.master

When you create a custom minimal.master it’s also required to have all the placeholders defined. We already know this from the v4.master but why are they needed when they are not used? They are necessary for the edit mode of the minimal masterpage. When you edit a minimal masterpage and you have only defined the minimal.master placeholder you get error messages like “Cannot find ContentPlaceHolder ‘PlaceHolderLeftNavBar’ in the master page '~masterurl/default.master', verify content control's ContentPlaceHolderID attribute in the content page.”

List of all the required ContentPlaceHolders:

SharePoint list view group by content type

By default it’s not possible to group your list items by contenttype. After some research on internet I founded a solution on codeplex:

SharePoint 2010 ViewEdit Group By Content Type

Actually it’s nothing more than adding some javascript with a script link to each page.

Images from picture library not displayed in IE

Today I discovered a strange behavior in Internet Explorer. I  uploaded some images to my image library and I referred to them in my custom aspx page. All the images displayed correctly except one. In Firefox everything rendered correctly, in IE only the thumbnail and the web image was available. The full image was not available and I received a red cross on my page.

Conclusion: the image was corrupt!

How to use SharePoint’s default modal popup from code behind?

A while ago I needed to create a shopping basket. When you click on an item in that basket it would be nice if that item opens in a modal popup. But how can you access the default SharePoint modal popup dialog if it isn’t in your masterpage?

I used following code:

public static class Helper
{
    public static string GetDialogURL(string url, bool refreshOnClose, double width, double height)
    {
        string str = string.Concat(new object[]
		{
            "SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog({ url:'",
			url,
			"',tite: 'Move Documents',allowMaximize: true ,showClose: true,width:",
			width,
			",height:",
			height
		});
        if (refreshOnClose)
        {
            str += ",dialogReturnValueCallback: function(dialogResult){SP.UI.ModalDialog.RefreshPage(dialogResult)}";
        }
        str += "});";
        return str;
    }
    public static string GetDialogURL(string url)
    {
        return Helper.GetDialogURL(url, true, 700.0, 800.0);
    }
}

XSL template to obtain all visible fields in Content Query WebPart

When we are editing XSLT for Content Query WebPart, XSLTListViewWebPart or any other WebPart with configurable XSLT, you can obtain all list fields and their values with following template:

<xsl:template name="ShowXML" match="Row[@Style='ShowXML']" mode="itemstyle">
    <xsl:variable name="SafeLinkUrl">
      <xsl:call-template name="OuterTemplate.GetSafeLink">
        <xsl:with-param name="UrlColumnName" select="'LinkUrl'"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="DisplayTitle">
      <xsl:call-template name="OuterTemplate.GetTitle">
        <xsl:with-param name="Title" select="@Title"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="UrlColumnName" select="'LinkUrl'"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:variable>
    <b>
      Item: <i>
        <a href="{$SafeLinkUrl}" title="{@LinkToolTip}">
          <xsl:value-of select="$DisplayTitle"/>
        </a>
      </i>:
    </b>
    <ol>
      <xsl:for-each select="@*">
        <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
        <li>
          <xsl:value-of select="name()" />
          <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> </xsl:text>
          <i>
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
          </i>
        </li>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </ol>
    <br />
  </xsl:template>

Notice that @ is the beginning char of any list field.