Experiences with SharePoint, web development, and programming
After recently doing a lot of work heavily customizing NewForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx for a SharePoint list, I ran into a major issue after I moved my list into a publishing site. The issue appeared when I added a webpart onto my EditForm.
This post is the sequel to my first post: Autopopulate a SharePoint Form from URL.
Let’s use the same example, but this time take advantage of SPUtility.js (the open source JavaScript library I maintain).
I recently got asked if it was possible wrap the column headers in a list view web part. The user had a WebPart with quite a few columns with long names and was trying to prevent the page from scrolling left to right.
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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.
Got the following message when trying to deploy a solution file to the server:
Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.
Luckily Robert Bogue had already found the answer: we had duplicated an entry for a web part in our solution’s .ddf file. Apparently, makecab allows you to have the same file in the same location multiple times. I’m not really sure why it doesn’t just overwrite it, but in any case, the solution doesn’t know what to do with it either.
