Open and Close a Sharepoint Modal Dialog with URL

Hi Folks, in my earlier post we have seen how to launch a popup in any page using purely jquery approach. Click here...
In this post we are going to acheive this with Sharepoint framework.

Sharepoint has exposed some client side functions where we can easily call a page as modal dialog/ pop up.

SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options) Method helps us in acheiving the same.

Below is the actual implementation of this function.

function openDialogAndReceiveData(tUrl, tTitle) {
         var options = {
             url: tUrl,
             title: tTitle,
    autoSize: false,
    width:600,
    height:350,
    dialogReturnValueCallback: onPopUpCloseCallBackWithData
         };
         SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);
     }

function onPopUpCloseCallBackWithData(result, returnValue) {
//If any action that needs to be done on parent page upon close of popup.      
}

The above function is a generic one where we just need to call this function on the onclick of the button on which we are expecting the popin/modal dialog to be opened.
Parameters:
tUrl = absolute or relative path of the page which we need to see as a dialog
tTitle = Title of the modal dialog.

Hope this helps...

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Sharepoint shortcut URL's

Hi Guys,

Sometimes we wanted to bypass some of the UI navigation steps and wanted directly to get into some page like settings or edit mode etc.,

Here are some of the relative links that I know.

Site Settings page:
/_layouts/settings.aspx

View all site content page:
/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx

Pages library:
/pages/forms/allitems.aspx

Manage Site Collection features page:
/_layouts/managefeatures.aspx?Scope=Site

Manage Site Features page:
/_layouts/managefeatures.aspx

Sign in as a different user prompt:
/_layouts/closeconnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true

If you want see which all webparts on a page, you can simple go to Web Part Maintenance page by adding the below query string to the end of the URL of any aspx page.
?Contents=1

Sandboxed Solution Gallery page:
/_catalogs/solutions/Forms/AllItems.aspx

Welcome Page settings page:
/_layouts/AreaWelcomePage.aspx

Happy Learning...

Publishing Infopath Form to a new site/ Infopath change publish location

Hi Folks,

In this post we are going to Change the target site/ list url for publishing Infopath form

Problem Statement:

You have a Infopath form developed with a List template, present in a Sharepoint List of Development Environment. Now that you want to publish this form to Production environment but while publishing you will not be prompted to enter new URL in publishing wizard.

When you try to open the publishing Wizard from File Menu and then click on Publish you can see only the below two options.

·         Sharepoint List

·         Export Source Files

The "Sharepoint List" option remembers the Quick Publish Location and even has a Label stating: "The form will be published to: http://oldurl"

Clicking on the it, just does exactly the same as Quick Publish action i.e., quick publish without bringing up the wizard to choose the publish location.

Solution:

I found the best approach as below. It involves in updating the manifest files and view files. Below is the approach which does the trick.

1.       Infopath form (xsn) file is basically a cab file with bunch of related files in it.

2.       Rename xsn to cab extension

3.       Extract the cab file to a location

4.       Open the manifest.xsf file and replace the OLD URL with new URL.

5.       Update the new ListID and ContentTypeID in the Manifest.xsf(If you don’t do this, you will get List not found error).

6.       Open all the xsl files(views) present under extracted folder and perform the steps 4 and 5 if it has old URL and ListID/ContentType ID present.

7.       Save all the modified files and then right click on the manifest.xsf file and open click on design.

8.       This will open the Infopath form and Go to Publish. You will be able to see the updated New URL. Go ahead and Publish It and you are done.

Happy Learning...

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Javascript to get query string value by passing the parameters siteUrl and querystringkey

In this post we will be writing a function to retrieve the query string value by passing the parameters siteUrl and querystringkey using Javascript.

Below is the function:

function getQuerystringForUrl(key,siteUrl) {   

    key = decodeURIComponent(key).replace(/[\[]/, "\\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\\]");

    var regexS = "[\\?&]" + key + "=([^&#]*)";

    var regex = new RegExp(regexS);           

    var results = regex.exec(siteUrl);

    if (results == null)

        return;

    else

        return decodeURIComponent(results[1]);

}


Hope this helps...