How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

tomwaters — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:45:32 GMT

For anyone trying to get this working with SharePoint 2013, I had to change:

SP.SOD.registerSod(""CustomContextualTabPageComponent.js"", ""\/_layouts\/CustomContextualTabPageComponent.js"");

To:

SP.SOD.registerSod(""CustomContextualTabPageComponent.js"", ""\/_layouts\/15\/CustomContextualTabPageComponent.js"");

In DelayScript (step 10) to get it to load the .js file that gets deployed into layouts.

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

Zula_7 — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:36:46 GMT

Hello,

I tested this code and the buttons do not work. I've read the comments and saw that nikhilzkingdom provides a solution.

But in what function in Delay Script code i place the code??

Thanks,

zula

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

Tesfaye Gari — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:42:54 GMT

Can we create other Ribbons by the same technique? Without having the Feature xml and using the OM only??

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

RWL01 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:39:32 GMT

Thanks for the article. Is there any reason why I wouldn't be able to translate this to work with a visual web part?

Thanks

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

Dallas Tester [MSFT] — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:21:45 GMT

Sean,

This is a known issue with this example. There is a long discussion about it (along with a fix from me) on the forums: social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../8604fda5-dad3-49e5-b820-af98ae2fb3cf

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask!

Thanks,

Dallas

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

Sean — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:01:31 GMT

If I put two of the web parts on the page, the ContextualTabWebPart seems to be crashing the page. I am curious if I give ContextualGroup and ContextualTab unique ID for each ContextualWebPart, it will display two contextual tab on Ribbon, how does the Ribbon work when I select one web part vs. the other?

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

jhugheslmr — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:47:54 GMT

What do I need to do to support the webpart being on a page more than once? I have some javascript code and information contained within the webpart that I would like to access from the ribbon.

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

nikhilzkingdom — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:53:13 GMT

@Dallas Tester

So is the product bug fixed at the next release?

Also in the sample above, if you try and edit the web part (causing a postback) it will blow up with

"ArgumentException: Ribbon 'Tab' node must have a 'Scaling' subnode" exception

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

Dallas Tester [MSFT] — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:37:37 GMT

@nikhilzkingdom

There is a product bug where the buttons aren't enabled the first time you select the Web Part. Try selecting the Web Part, de-selecting the Web Part, and selecting it again. The buttons should enable at that point. This sample works without the additional call to requestFocusForComponent, which, actually, could cause timing issues. Feel free to e-mail me if you'd like to debug your solution without the call to requestFocusForComponent.

@anthonya

Try selecting the Web Part, de-selecting, and selecting the Web Part again. This sample should work fine without the additional line of code. If not, e-mail me and I'll help you out.

Thanks,

Dallas

re: How to Create a Web Part with a Contextual Tab

nikhilzkingdom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:58:39 GMT

@anthonya

ContextualTabWebPart.cs file

as part of Delay Script (hard coded string)