Hide Edit Page Link From Site Actions Menu

If you have a requirement to hide a link from site actions menu, for example, the edit page link, you can use SharePoint designer instead of creating a custom code.

Here are the steps on how to hide edit page link from site actions menu of a SharePoint site:

1. Open the site using SharePoint Designer.
2. Go to _catalogs >> masterpage.
3. Check out and edit default.master page.
4. Find the below code from the page:

<SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_EditPage"
Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpage%>"
            Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpagedescription%>"
            ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/ActionsEditPage.gif"
            MenuGroupId="100"
            Sequence="200"
            ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="javascript:MSOLayout_ChangeLayoutMode(false);" />

and then add the following lines on it:

PermissionsString="ManageSubwebs"
PermissionMode="Any"

The code should now look like:

<SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_EditPage"
            Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpage%>"
            Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpagedescription%>"
            ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/ActionsEditPage.gif"
            MenuGroupId="100"
            Sequence="200"
            ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="javascript:MSOLayout_ChangeLayoutMode(false);"
            PermissionsString="ManageSubwebs"
            PermissionMode="Any" />

5.  Save and check in default.master page.


 

Display List Header of a List View Web Part

When you add a custom list view web part on a page, the list header is not displaying by default unlike the other web parts namely Categories, Other Blogs and Links.

In order to add a list view web part on a page with list header (for example, you want to use your custom list as a left navigation menu, similar to Categories web part in SharePoint blog site), replace the <ListViewXml> with the item below and then change the View Name value equal to the listview webpart id (__WebPartId).

<ListViewXml xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ListView">&lt;View Name="{D5DE4857-09A5-49CC-8EB3-5D26EDC40238}" Type="HTML" Hidden="TRUE" DisplayName="" Url="/blog/default.aspx" Level="1" BaseViewID="4" ContentTypeID="0x"&gt;&lt;Toolbar Type="None"/&gt;&lt;ViewHeader&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[ &lt;div class="ms-WPBody"&gt; &lt;div class="ms-navheader"&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;a ]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[ id="defviewurl]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;Counter Type="View"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA["&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;ListProperty Select="Title" HTMLEncode="TRUE"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/a&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/div&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class=""&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;/ViewHeader&gt;&lt;ViewEmpty&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[ &lt;div class="ms-WPBody"&gt; &lt;div class="ms-navheader"&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;a ]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[ id="defviewurl]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;Counter Type="View"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA["&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;ListProperty Select="Title" HTMLEncode="TRUE"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/a&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/div&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="ms-navSubMenu2"&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div class="ms-BlogEmptyListText"&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;There are no items in this list.&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;/ViewEmpty&gt;&lt;ViewBody&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;tr class="ms-CategoryTitleRow"&gt;&lt;td class="ms-CategoryTitleCell" id="lnkurl]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;Column Name="ID" URLEncode="TRUE"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA["&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;Field Name="URL"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;/ViewBody&gt;&lt;ViewFooter&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;/ViewFooter&gt;&lt;RowLimitExceeded&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;div class="ms-BlogMoreLinks"&gt;&lt;a href="]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;ListProperty Select="DefaultViewUrl"/&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[" ID=onetidMoreFavs&gt;
                                        ]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;(More Links...)&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;![CDATA[
                                        &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;&lt;/RowLimitExceeded&gt;&lt;Query&gt;&lt;OrderBy&gt;&lt;FieldRef Name="Order" Ascending="TRUE"/&gt;&lt;/OrderBy&gt;&lt;/Query&gt;&lt;ViewFields&gt;&lt;FieldRef Name="URL"/&gt;&lt;/ViewFields&gt;&lt;RowLimit&gt;30&lt;/RowLimit&gt;&lt;/View&gt;</ListViewXml>

After doing the modifications, it will now show the list header of the custom list as shown below:

Change the Redirection URL of SharePoint Buttons

When you open a site using SharePoint designer and view one of its site pages, for example EditForm.aspx, you can see the html code of the default OK and Cancel buttons in the HTML Code view. 

The html code of the buttons are:

<SharePoint:SaveButton runat="server" ControlMode="Edit" id="savebutton1" Text="OK"/>

<SharePoint:GoBackButton runat="server" ControlMode="Edit" id="gobackbutton2"/>

In the above html code, you will notice that there are no available attributes / properties for the elements <SharePoint:SaveButton> and <SharePoint:GoBackButton> where you can specify or edit its redirection url. Basically, the redirection url of these buttons are being handled already by SharePoint so there is no way to make the default buttons redirect to a different url.

But there is a workaround to achieve that kind of requirement. Instead of using the default sharepoint buttons, you can use the HTML button <input type="button"> as shown below.

<input type="button" class="ms-ButtonHeightWidth" value="OK" name="btnSave" onclick="javascript: {ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent('__commit;__redirect={}')}" />

<input type="button" class="ms-ButtonHeightWidth" value="Cancel" name="btnCancel" onclick="javascript: {ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent('__redirect={}')}" />

Here we set the class attribute equal to "ms-ButtonHeightWidth" in order to have the same look and feel as of the default SharePoint button. In the __redirect={} part of the onclick attribute value, you can put any URL you like, for example __redirect={http://www.google.com} or __redirect={/news/PressReleases/}. Please take note that there should be no quotes around the URLs passed into the __redirect directive.

Here is the full example:

<input type="button" class="ms-ButtonHeightWidth" value="OK" name="btnSave" onclick="javascript: {ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent('__commit;__redirect={http://www.google.com}')}" />

<input type="button" class="ms-ButtonHeightWidth" value="Cancel" name="btnCancel" onclick="javascript: {ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent('__redirect={/news/PressReleases/}')}" />

   

Filter SharePoint List Views by Date and Time

By default if you do filtering of views by DateTime field via web, it will only filter the views by date, not including time. In order to include time, you need to modify the view using SharePoint Designer. Here are the steps on how to do it.

1. Open the site in which the list or document library resides using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer.
2. Locate the list or document library and open the .aspx file associated with the view (e.g. “AllItems.aspx”)
3. Click the Code tab and locate the CAML query associated with the filter (search on the name of your DateTime field, e.g. "StartDateTime"). 
4. Edit the CAML query to include the IncludeTimeValue attribute (IncludeTimeValue="True"). Please note that you need to include spaces exactly as shown in the sample below: 

            &lt;Gt&gt;
             &lt;FieldRef Name=&quot;StartDateTime&quot;/&gt;
             &lt;Value Type=&quot;DateTime&quot; IncludeTimeValue="True"&gt;
              &lt;Today/&gt;
             &lt;/Value&gt;

Customize Post.aspx Without Error

In order to customize SharePoint blog's Post.aspx page, you need to convert it into XSLT Data View using SharePoint designer. But, the problem is when you try to convert it, the below error occurs:

"Failed setting processor stylesheet: Expression expected. -->=<--@Author"


Solution:

1. In your SharePoint blog site, go to Post.aspx.
2. Click Site Actions >> Edit Page
3. Delete Post webpart
4. Add new Post webpart.
5. Exit edit mode.
6. Open Post.aspx using Sharepoint Designer
7. Right-click Post webpart and then convert to XSLT Data View. (You should now be able to convert it without error)
8. In Common Data View Tasks >> Parameters >> add new parameter ID (Parameter source = Query String; Query String Variable = ID)
9. In Common Data View Tasks >> Filter >> add filter ID Equals [ID]. 

After that, you can now edit the default display page of a SharePoint blog site based on your requirements.