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2. Interesting post – would love to see the concepts explored in more details. I hugely enjoyed the HTML calculated columns series and the URL method posts. Would love to see a series about integrating sharepoint lists with charts or using an iframe combined with JavaScript to pull data from another site…

   Love your blog.
   Greg

3. Greg, my initial plan was to write a series on charts, but I dropped this idea when I realized I had little to add to Darren Johnstone’s blog. Maybe I’ll just publish an example based on his code.
   I have some cool stuff to show with iframes, but I first need to finish what I have started. I am only half way in the HTML calculated column series…

4. For a long time I have searched for a simple solution to populate images in my issue log without editing root pages. As everyone claims this was put together well and easy to understand. Another issue I have been searching a solution for is the referring URL. In my issue log it is usually open from another page and is used to report corrections or changes of this page. When I was using .NET I could post the referring URL. Using SharePoint I can not figure out how to write the referring URL to a list field. Is there an easy way to do this? Possibly using the CEWP and with javascript write the URL to one field or list item? I have written the URL to the page, but have not successfully figured out how to capture this in the SharePoint form.

   Thanks

5. Larry: one way is to access a form field by its title. I suggest that you search the Web using these keywords:
   “Referencing SharePoint form fields with JavaScript”
   Be careful to validate the code, there are a couple traps. I plan to write an article on this topic…next year.
   May I ask you how you grab the referrer URL?
   For the record, the trick to insert scripts in the edit form is explained here:
   https://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/the-content-editor-web-part/

6. Christophe,

   Thanks so much for the quick reply. Those key words were perfect. What I cant figure out is how to fire off the function. I am using the _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push() but it wont fire. I have tried multiple ways of putting it on the page.

   I have added the script to the CEWP. I placed the CEWP at the top of NewForw.aspx and at the bottom of NewForm.aspx. I have also added it directly to the page after the tag [asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderId=”PlaceHolderMain” runat=”server”]

   I ever tried to get an alert to run and it does not like this:

   [script type=”text/javascript”]
   _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.PUSH(“LHP”);

   function LHP() {
   alert(‘Hello Larry’);
   }
   [/script]

   Can you see if I missed something?

7. Larry, Javascript is case sensitive – try “push” instead of “PUSH”.

8. Christophe,

   Thanks a million. That was one of the first things I tried. I must have missed something else. I am not sure what but I finally got this to work.

   Keep up the great work. When your ready to write this post if you want any of my work I would be happy to share it.

   thanks

9. I’m back. Okay, I have been playing with hiding columns/fields/controls. One thing I noticed is that wss 3.0 does not offer the Target Audience functionality of MOSS. So I want to make this some what dynamic say by groups or permissions.

   If (groupName != “Admins”) {
   …hide control;
   }

   or
   If (PermissionLevel != “Full Control”)
   …hide control;
   }
   Can we do this with javascript?

   here is the hide script
   [script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript”]
   _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push(“hideFields”);

   function findacontrol(FieldName) {
   var arr = document.getElementsByTagName(“!”);//get all comments
   for (var i=0;i 0) {
   if (arr[i].innerHTML.indexOf(‘FieldName=”‘ + FieldName + ‘”‘) > 0) {

   return arr[i];
   }
   }
   }

   function hideFields() {
   var control;
   // name of control – for each
   control = findacontrol(“FieldName”);
   // Hide control – for each
   control.parentNode.parentNode.style.display=”none”;

   }
   [/script>

10. I have been playing with the above script to add some other functionality.

    using the last line of code
    control.parentNode.parentNode.style.display=”none”;

    I have been able to add titles
    control.parentNode.parentNode.title=”This is tooltip text”;
    and I got an alert to fire off. What I am actually going for is a tooltip. The title attribute is a quick display, I was hoping for something more robust. I have tried to fire off a new window writing the elements on the fly but no luck.

    Any one with any ideas?

11. New post. Some time back there was a webpart hide elements. This worked in WSS 2.0 and it was a dynamic way to select the elements you wanted to hide on a page. I have had multiple requests when setting up sites and intakes to hide specific elements. The hide elements webpart does not work in WSS 3.0. During my many ventures I have gathered a bunch of CSS and little script that will hide everything on the page but the web parts or list parts. Draw back is it’s not dynamic. I have been trying to put into a function, but this is classnames not element IDs. I want to have some simple check boxes if checked, .classname{display:none}

    Putting the classes into a CEWP every thing becomes hidden, any ideas how to do this dynamically with a function for the different parts?

    [sample code]
    [style]
    /* CSS Hide */
    /* Search Form and oth parts */
    .ms-searchbox{display: none;}
    .ms-searchform{display: none;}
    .ms-pagetitle{display: none;}
    .ms-titlearealeft{display: none;}
    .ms-titleareaframe{display: none;}
    .ms-rightareacell{display: none;}
    .ms-titlearea{display: none;}
    #ctl00_placeholderpageimage_onetidtpweb1{display: none;}
    .ms-sitemapdirectional{ display: none;}
    .ms-pagebreadcrumb{ display: none;}

    /* Top Image */
    .ms-globalTitleArea{
    padding-top:0px;
    /*background-color: #;
    background-image: url(“”);*/
    height:px;
    background-position: top left;
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
    .ms-globaltitlearea{display: none;}
    .ms-titleimagearea{display: none;}
    .ms-sitemapdirectional{display: none;}
    .ms-globalbreadcrumb{display: none;}
    .ms-sitetitle{display: none;}

    /* Left Nav */
    .ms-navframe { display: none;}

    /* Navigation Tabs */
    .ms-topnavcontainer{display: none;}

    [/style]
    [script language=”JavaScript”]
    document.getElementById(‘onettopnavbar1002-1′).style.visibility=’hidden’; document.getElementById(‘onettopnavbar1002-2′).style.visibility=’hidden’; document.getElementById(‘onettopnavbar1002-3′).style.visibility=’hidden’; document.getElementById(‘onettopnavbar1002-4′).style.visibility=’hidden’;
    [/script]
    [/sample code]

12. Larry, see if this recent article from Paul Grenier helps:
    http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1075

13. Perfect, Thanks!

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15. Christophe

    I use the code below to open an infopath form in a cewp. I want to display the list item data in the form when the form opens; for this, I need the itemid, which i need to include at the end of the url. Are you able to help me with this code?

    Thanks
    Sham

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