Selected tab in the Top Link Bar

June 18th, 2009

I recently ran into the weird issue of not having my tabs highlighted correctly. After consulting Uncle Google, it seems Andy Burns ran into this same issue.

The problem started after creating multiple aspx pages within my site and then setting up a tab for each page by editing the Top Link Bar (also known as the top navigation) under Site Settings. Each of the tabs worked correctly, but after clicking a tab that tab would not be highlighted and the home tab would stay selected.

The fix, as Andy mentions, is to change your URLs to be relative. After the change, your tabs work as you would expect.

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The Danger in using SPSite.OpenWeb()

June 8th, 2009

Recently I ran into a “feature” of SharePoint’s SPSite.OpenWeb() method (the no argument constructor specifically). If the OpenWeb() method is used with a URL that is not known to exist, it can result in some unexpected behavior.

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Make a Text field read only on EditForm.aspx without SPD

June 2nd, 2009

November 10, 2010 Update: I’ve posted the sequel to this post: Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL (with SPUtility.js). I’ll leave the original intact just in case someone wants it, but I would highly recommend checking out the new and improved way using SPUtility.js!
August 20, 2010 Update: The code below has moved to be part of a bigger library… check out SPUtility.js on CodePlex!

After looking at a couple of examples online, most of them require the use of SharePoint Designer to make a field read only (or to hide it). Here is a method to make a field readonly using only Prototype (javascript library) and a Content Editor Web Part

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Using Prototype’s Element.insert

June 1st, 2009

Strangely, Prototype’s documentation for Element.insert does not have any examples, so I cooked something up quick:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Template</title>

<script type="text/javascript" src="prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

Event.observe(window, 'load', function() {
    // Using Element.insert to insert after, before, top, or bottom
    Element.insert($('para1'), { before: "<p>This is paragraph zero.</p>" });
    Element.insert($('para1'), { after: "<p>This is paragraph two.</p>" });
   
    // notice we have to insert using the content container
    Element.insert($('content'), { top: "<p>This is the first paragraph.</p>" });
    Element.insert($('content'), { bottom: "<p>This is the last paragraph</p>" });
});

</script>

</head>

<body>

<div id="content">
    <p id="para1">This is paragraph one.</p>
    <p id="para3">This is paragraph three.</p>
</div>

</body>
</html>
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