Kit Menke's Blog » WSS http://kitmenke.com/blog Experiences with SharePoint, web development, and programming Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:28:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wrap ListViewWebPart Column Headers http://kitmenke.com/blog/2010/07/08/wrap-listviewwebpart-colum-headers/ http://kitmenke.com/blog/2010/07/08/wrap-listviewwebpart-colum-headers/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:55:58 +0000 Kit http://kitmenke.com/blog/?p=258 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.

Column Header (nowrap)

What we needed to do was wrap the column header so that it fit more to the data in the grid.

Column Header (wrapped)

The solution is relatively simple to implement; all you need is a Content Editor Webpart at the bottom of the page somewhere with the following JavaScript in it:

<script type="text/javascript">
function WrapColumnHeaderText(columnName) {
    try {
        var tables = document.getElementsByTagName("table");
        for (i = 0; i < tables.length; i++) {
            // find the table that is for the column we're looking for
            var attrItem = tables[i].attributes.getNamedItem("displayname")
            if (null != attrItem && attrItem.nodeValue === columnName) {
                var cells = tables[i].getElementsByTagName("td");
                for (c = 0; c < cells.length; c++) {
                    if (null != cells[c].attributes.getNamedItem("nowrap")) {
                        cells[c].attributes.removeNamedItem("nowrap");
                        // after removing nowrap, IE won't actually wrap the content
                        // until it "changes".. so we touch it to force it to wrap
                        cells[c].innerHTML = cells[c].innerHTML;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    } catch (ex) {
        alert(ex.toString());
    }
}

function WrapColumnHeaders() {
    // TODO: repeat the line below to wrap more columns
    WrapColumnHeaderText("Company Product Code");
}

_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("WrapColumnHeaders");
</script>
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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:

  • US
  • Canada

After a change in requirements, the new values for the field were:

  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
  • United States

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.

The Setup:

My site column was defined with each choice for Country in alphabetical order:
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Symptoms:

The symptoms of my problem were very strange. After running my app successfully, it seemed as if my updates were simply ignored by the server.

  1. The item is successfully updated using the Lists.asmx (it even creates a new version!)
  2. The item does not show the updated value for your multi-select choice field in the UI.

The Code:

Here is the very simple code that is creating the update message:

private static void AddCountryUpdate(ref StringBuilder sb, int count, string id, string newCountry)
{
    sb.AppendFormat("<Method ID='{0}' Cmd='Update'>", count);
    sb.AppendFormat("<Field Name='ID'>{0}</Field>", id);
    sb.AppendFormat("<Field Name='Country'>{0}</Field>", newCountry);
    sb.Append("</Method>");
}

Calling the following code to update:

XmlDocument xmlDoc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
System.Xml.XmlElement elBatch = xmlDoc.CreateElement("Batch");
elBatch.InnerXml = sb.ToString();
XmlNode ndReturn = list.ListWebSvc.UpdateListItems(listName, elBatch);

The Results:

Attempting to update Country to be “;#United States;#Canada;#” resulted in a ”success” response (error code of 0×00000000) even when the update was NOT successful:

<Result ID="373,Update">
  <ErrorCode>0x00000000</ErrorCode>
  <z:row ows_ID="1311" ows_Country=";#United States;#Canada;#" ows_Modified="2009-10-29 16:01:05" ows__UIVersionString="6.0" />
</Result>

Viewing this in the UI still shows the old value:

Country - Old Value

However, only after the values are in order, “;#Canada;#United States;#”, will the update actually happen.

<Result ID="223,Update">
  <ErrorCode>0x00000000</ErrorCode>
  <z:row ows_ID="1311" ows_Country=";#Canada;#United States;#" ows_Modified="2009-10-30 08:51:45" ows__UIVersionString="7.0" />
</Result>

Viewing this in the UI shows the updated value:

Country - Correct

Notice it still created a version 6.0 and 7.0:

Version History

Conclusion:

When updating a multi-select choice field using SharePoint’s Lists.asmx web service, the order of the choices in the update message are important. If they are out of order, it will not update.

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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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