Ravi Anguluri's blog

User profiles properties and Target Audiences

2008-06-24T01:35:00Z

You might be aware the recommended practice is to create a webapp for to host MySites. There are two paths for to store and share Information..Public View and the Private View. The public page is to share information with other users, which could contain information such as personal and professional interests, shared links and documents, etc. To know more about MySite, refer this article http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101087481033.aspx Say you want to restrict the view of personal...(read more)

ListViewWebPart and ToolbarType

2008-03-29T04:12:00Z

How can I can remove or hide the toolbar for a ListViewWebPart that's added programatically?

There are ways to do this like taking the output from HtmlSchemaXml or ListViewXml, then replace <Toolbar Type="Standard" /> with <Toolbar Type="None" /> or whatever it might be and update the webpart in the webpart collection. This works most of the time when the webparts on the page have these values.

Is there a simpler way? Yes...

This is the typical code to add a ListViewWebPart to webpart page.

1. Dim myweb As SPWeb = New SPSite("http://MOSS").OpenWeb

2. Dim ResumeList As SPList = myweb.Lists("Resumes")

3. Dim wp As ListViewWebPart = New ListViewWebPart()

4. wp.ListName = ResumeList.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper

5. wp.ViewGuid = ResumeList.DefaultView.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper()

6. Dim currentManager As SPLimitedWebPartManager = myweb.GetLimitedWebPartManager("default.aspx", WebParts.PersonalizationScope.Shared)

7. Dim aWebPartCollection As SPLimitedWebPartCollection = currentManager.WebParts

8. currentManager.AddWebPart(wp, "Left", 1)

When we specify the webpart.ViewGuid, a default schema is added which contains tag for Toolbar. This causes the Toolbar to be displayed in the webpart page.

All you have to do is not to specify the webpart.ViewGuid and this does the trick.

Moving sites within Site Collection

2008-03-20T04:24:00Z

The site templates under Publishing help organizations to manage the content for deleting, coping and moving sites within Site Collection and it isn't the same with other templates.

For example if I have multiple Sites under the Collaboration template, so I will not be able to move the sites within Site Collection. So how do you get your sites to be moved to different locations within the site collection? Well it’s pretty straight forward. I had created my new custom web part to display the sub sites...and added bit of custom code to move the sites. All you have to do is just use the "ServerRelativeUrl". This avoids you to export and import sites

Dim siteCollection As New SPSite(http://Site)
Dim sourceSite As SPWeb = siteCollection.OpenWeb()
Dim sourceWeb As SPWeb = siteCollection.OpenWeb("/sites/Corporate/TeamSites/HR")
Dim destWeb As SPWeb = siteCollection.OpenWeb("/sites/Corporate/")
sourceWeb.ServerRelativeUrl = destWeb.ServerRelativeUrl + "/" + sourceWeb.Name
sourceWeb.Update()
destWeb.Update()

Other than moving the sites, you could try other snippets such as Copy the Site etc…

-Ravi Anguluri