In this series; Purloining, Reusing and Customizing the ECB Menu System Part 1 Purloining, Reusing and Customizing the ECB Menu System Part 2 This series by Jan Tielens on customizing the ECB with Javascript is useful reading in conjunction with this post. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 This post was supposed to be about [...]
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Tag Archives: Lists
SharePoint 2010 Create and Update List Forms Programmatically
December 23, 2011
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In this post, somewhat inspired by @BinaryJam‘s series on list form customisation using SharePoint designer, we will create a new (New Item) list form and update an existing Edit form programmatically, and add the SPServices autocomplete feature to both forms of an existing list. The SPServices autocomplete will be attached to a list column which [...]
Read more Provisioning a SharePoint 2010 List Instance Causes Exception in a Site Scoped Feature
December 19, 2011
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Provisioning a list using the ListInstance element causes an exception, if the element is included in a Site scoped feature and the RootWebOnly attribute is set to TRUE. Setting RootWebOnly to FALSE, or removing the attribute, works as expected. If the ListInstance element, as shown above, is included in a Web scoped feature, it works [...]
Read moreSharePoint: EncodedAbsUrl and the Full URL of an SPListItem.
July 27, 2010
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You want to get the full URL of an SPListItem, but the SPListItem.Url property returns only the server relative URL. You could concatenate together the SPListItem.Web.Url and SPListItem.Url property values, alternatively you can use the ows_EncodedAbsUrl metadata value; The exact form of this metadata value seems to vary according to how it’s used, such as [...]
Read moreSharePoint: Get the URL of a List or Library
March 11, 2010
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Oddly enough, the SPList object doesn’t have a URL property which gives you the server relative URL of the List. So, here’s a code snippet to retrieve it.
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