Experiences with SharePoint, web development, and programming
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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May 20, 2010 Update
This post is about using a C# console app to update choice fields via SharePoint web services. If you are looking for more information on how SharePoint web services can be called via JavaScript, check out my post on building a simple SharePoint AJAX app.
My problem started with a simple change to a site column. I had originally created a Country field with the following values:
After a change in requirements, the new values for the field were:
After updating the site column, I then needed to update the hundreds of items in the list to use “United States” instead of “US”. Instead of updating hundreds of items manually, I decided to write a small web services console app. (I was also not able to update it in datasheet… due to content approval maybe???)
However, I quickly ran into problems when attempting to update the multi-select choice field.
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.
