Opening list links in a new window

Steve — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:47:00 GMT

There is a few posts about this on the internet.

seems as usual with SharePoint there is a few ways to do this. This is one way which they can be done, The others are by editing a listview within SharePoint Designer right clicking on the list and select dataform XSLT or similar and editing the xsl and saving and this method by Todd Bleeker.

have a read and see what you think.

Editing List Schema

This is a fairly simple process once you know how this is a quick guide on how to do it.

Add a new boolean column to your list something along the lines of "Open In New Window".

open up your "schema XML".

down at the bottom of your schema file there is a <Fields> node open this up and copy paste the code below

edit the following area's

URLToOpen - the name of the URL field you want to use to generate the new link

OpenInNewWindow - The name of the field you created as a the boolean value to decide if to open in a new window or not

ok with that done now you can just use that computed column within your schema xml as a valid field.

just add that field in the <ViewFields> part of your view ie :
<FieldRef Name="NewUrlLink" />

This is a simplified rundown of the process based on my experiences with this. check out Andrew Connells blog if you need more information Andrews Connell's post can be found here and has more detail then mine.

Deploying Custom Lists with STSDEV

Steve — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:06:00 GMT

This is only a quick and dirty post as I'm really busy atm. This is obviously the most basic tutorial explaining how to quickly and easily take your lists from within sharepoint and make them deployable (I'm using STSDEV).

Firstly create your list within the Sharepoint as normal.

Open Sharepoint Solution Generator

Enter your site details,select the list you want to deploy and save into a folder on your desktop.

This generates a stand alone project for deploying this list if this is what you want.

To embed in a larger project

Copy the 4 ASPX files and the Schema.XML files into your project and place them in a listfolder (eg: "My List")

Edit the "Elements.XML" and copy the contents from the "ListDefinition.XML" file into it.

Open up the "Feature.XML" and add the following

finally within your "Elements.XML" add the following making sure to change the feature ID and generate a new Guid for the List Instance ID

<ListInstance

Id="874CE39B-0E8A-40c6-B284-36679BD5CC33"

FeatureId="314CAAC1-7E0D-4FAE-921C-30EEC7D7302A"

TemplateType="100"

Title="Press Releases"

Description="Press Releases"

Url="Lists/Press Releases" />

Take note of the Template Type, this should match between the template and the instance. There are a fair few different template types however Solution Generator should export the correct type for you.

for other types have a look here if you need too. Other Template Types

Now you should have your deployable list

hopefully this will be useful as a starting point for somebody.

Search results matching tag 'Lists'

Opening list links in a new window

Deploying Custom Lists with STSDEV