Unpublished View

February 14, 2013February 11, 2013 theChrisKent List/Library Settings, SharePoint Approval Status, CheckoutUser, Document Library, Draft, IsNotNull, Minor Version, SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Versioning, view, _ModerationStatus

Applies To: SharePoint

Versioning is a great feature in SharePoint but can cause administrators headaches when it comes to something like branding or other resource files. I’ve previously shown you how to automatically publish a major version and to approve documents as your solution deploys. In a perfect world you’ll never touch these files except through your solution.

However, sometimes you’ll need to quickly fix something or tweak something and you end up in a common situation: You can see the change but no one else can. This happens when versioning is turned on and you either haven’t published a major version (versions below 1) or the changes you’ve made are in draft state (ie 1.1 instead of 2.0).

Tracking these down can be frustrating since everything works for those with the right permissions. So here’s a quick view to add to your library to help you identify these problems. We’ll be filtering the library on 2 columns: Approval Status and Checked Out To.

First thing to do is to create a new view (I’ve named mine Unpublished). Choose whatever columns you want but some helpful ones are Type, Name, Modified, Modified By, Checked Out To and Version. You’ll also want to scroll down to the Folders settings and choose Show all items without folders.

You’ll notice that your view is now showing everything in a giant list because we didn’t apply any kind of filter. The reason for this is that the browser based view editor won’t let us select either IsNotNull as our comparison type or the Approval Status column. Fortunately, both of these things can be done very easily in SharePoint Designer. So switch to the Library ribbon and choose Modify in SharePoint Designer (Advanced) from the Modify View dropdown.

In the Code view just paste the following into your View’s XML inside the Query element:

<Where>
	<Or>
		<Eq>
			<FieldRef Name="_ModerationStatus"/>
			<Value Type="ModStat">Draft</Value>
		</Eq>
		<IsNotNull>
			<FieldRef Name="CheckoutUser"/>
		</IsNotNull>
	</Or>
</Where>

Things should look similar to this:

What our view is doing is showing any files that are checked out (so the CheckoutUser column is not blank) or that don’t have a major version. For whatever reason Microsoft won’t give you easy access to the _ModerationStatus column unless your library is requiring approvals, but we can still use it. When it’s set to Draft then it’s a minor version.

Save and refresh in the browser and you should only see those documents that may be causing you problems. Check them in or Publish a Major Version as needed and things should be good. We’ve found this simple view to be very helpful, hopefully you do as well.

Refinement Panel Customization Saving Woes

February 13, 2013February 11, 2013 theChrisKent Branding, Search, SharePoint, Web Parts Configuration, Filter Category Definition, Refinement Panel, Search Customization, Search Portal, Search Results, SharePoint, Web part

Applies To: SharePoint 2010

Editing the Filter Category Definition of a Refinement Panel web part can make your search result pages so much better. This is one of the first things we customize and every time we do, I get tripped up by a really annoying setting in the web part.

Problem Scenario

I replace the XML in the Filter Category Definition property in the Refinement properties section of the web part. I hit Apply and everything validates. I save the page and run the results – No custom refinements! In fact, when I open the web part back up for editing, my custom Filter Category Definition is totally wiped out! Why isn’t it saving!?!?!?! Why am I weeping ever so softly?!?!! Why would I confess that on the internets?!?!?!?!

Solution

There’s a checkbox at the bottom of the Refinement properties section labeled, Use Default Configuration. This is checked by default. Unless you uncheck this when you place your custom XML in the property, it is going to completely ignore you and replace it with the default XML.

I can see why things work this way, but it is extremely unintuitive. It would seem that the web part should recognize there is custom XML in the Filter Category Definition and understand that’s what it should use. Then a button (NOT a checkbox) that says something along the lines of “Revert to Default Configuration” would be used to reset that XML when needed.

Oh well, nobody is asking my opinion anyway. So do yourself a favor and remember to uncheck that box whenever customizing the Filter Category Definition.

Broken Add New Document Links

February 12, 2013February 7, 2013 theChrisKent List/Library Settings, SharePoint, Web Parts Add New Document, listform.aspx, Microsoft SharePoint, New Document, SharePoint, Summary Toolbar, Toolbar, Toolbar Type, Upload.aspx, Web part

Applies To: SharePoint 2010

We ran into an interesting problem the other day where a user called and said that everytime they clicked the Add New Document link they got a giant error message. I went to the site and was able to confirm that it was indeed blowing up.

This was only happening when the document library was being exposed through a web part on another page. Going directly to the library and clicking New Document or Upload Document in the ribbon worked just fine. The problem was obviously with the web part toolbar, which in this case was set to Summary Toolbar.

It appears this is something left over from our upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. I would’ve thought the Visual Upgrade would have fixed this and it’s amazing no one noticed for well over a year! It seems that Microsoft changed not only the look of the link (switching the icon from a little square to a green plus and removing the word new) the underlying address also changed.

Broken Old Style Link

Correct Style Link

Taking a look at where these links were pointed, I could see that the old style link was pointed at listform.aspx:

/_Layouts/listform.aspx?PageType=8&ListId={LISTGUID}?RootFolder=

While the new style link was pointed at Upload.aspx:

/_layouts/Upload.aspx?List=LISTGUID&RootFolder

Fixing this is pretty easy. Just edit the web part and change the Toolbar Type to No Toolbar and click Apply:

Then immediately switch the Toolbar Type back to Summary Toolbar and press OK:

Interestingly, other web parts sometimes show the old style link too (links, announcements, etc.) but since these all seem to still use the listform.aspx they continue to work. However, you can use the above technique to get them to match visually as well (green plus icon).

Dates With Relative Countdowns and Pretty Colors in List Views

February 11, 2013February 7, 2013 theChrisKent Branding, List/Library Settings, SharePoint, XSLT Background-Color, Color, Conditional Formatting, Countdown, DateTemplates, ddwrt, Due Date, Font, FormatDateTime, getDayDelta, Relative, SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Today, XSL

Applies To: SharePoint 2010

Every list in SharePoint automatically comes with two date columns (Created & Modified). Often times other date columns get added in there and it can be nice to format these to make the lists more intuitive. Out of the box you can format these a few different ways (mostly whether to show the time or not). With a little XSL you can use the ddwrt:formatdatetime function to really customize things (you’ll see a couple of examples of this below) – but can’t we do more?

Large lists of data (whether they are numbers, statuses, dates, etc.) can be overwhelming. One of the greatest improvements we can make is to provide visual clues or analysis on this data to help end-users understand what they are looking at. When it comes to dates, what most people really want to know is what that date means relative to now. This is especially true when it comes to Due Dates such as seen in a Tasks list:

We’ve greatly improved the readability of this list with some quick icons as demonstrated in my previous post: Showing Icons in a List View, but those due dates don’t really mean much at quick glance. We can do a couple of things to make these instantly understandable. We can add some color to indicate when the due date is near and/or missed. Even more powerful is showing how much time is left until the Due Date.

Adding Some Color

Flagging these dates with some quick color is pretty straightforward using SharePoint Designer. Designer will be generating some XSL and we’ll take a look at it at the end of this section, but we’ll be using the wizards and so no knowledge of XSL will be needed.

Open the site in SharePoint Designer (Site Actions > Edit in SharePoint Designer) and browse to the page/view you want to edit, or if this is a specific view just choose the Modify View dropdown and select Modify in SharePoint Designer (Advanced):

In Design view, click on one of the date values in the list and choose Format Column in the Conditional Formatting dropdown on the Options tab in the ribbon:

Our goal is to turn the cell red if the due date has passed; So in the Condition Criteria dialog set Field Name to Due Date, the Comparison to Less Than and the Value should remain the default of [Current Date]. Then press the Set Style button:

This formula reads: if the Due Date is older than (less) than now, set this style. We’re now setting up that style in the Modify Style dialog. In the Font category set the font-weight to bold (I’m also setting the color to Black since the default theme’s grayish font color doesn’t look great with a red background). Switch to the Background category and select a shade of red for the background-color and press OK:

I also like to provide a little warning before things get past due; So let’s make things turn yellow on the Due Date. So again, click on one of the date values in the list and choose Format Column in the Conditional Formatting dropdown on the Options tab in the ribbon. In the Condition Criteria dialog set Field Name to Due Date, the Comparison to Equal and the Value should remain the default of [Current Date]. Then press the Set Style button:

This formula reads: if the Due Date is today, set this style. We’re now setting up that style in the Modify Style dialog. In the Font category set the font-weight to bold (I’m also setting the color to Black since the default theme’s grayish font color doesn’t look great with the yellow background either). Switch to the Background category and select a shade of yellow for the background-color and press OK:

Save the view in Designer and refresh the view in the browser and you should see something similar to this (The date this screenshot was taken was 2/7/2013):

For those that are interested, here’s the XSL that designer generated:

<xsl:attribute name="style">
	<xsl:if test="ddwrt:DateTimeTick(ddwrt:GenDisplayName(string($thisNode/@DueDate))) &lt; ddwrt:DateTimeTick(ddwrt:GenDisplayName(string($Today)))"
	 ddwrt:cf_explicit="1">
		font-weight: bold; background-color: #DF1515; color: #000000;
	</xsl:if>
	<xsl:if test="ddwrt:DateTimeTick(ddwrt:GenDisplayName(string($thisNode/@DueDate))) = ddwrt:DateTimeTick(ddwrt:GenDisplayName(string($Today)))"
	 ddwrt:cf_explicit="1">
		font-weight: bold; color: #000000; background-color: #FAE032;
	</xsl:if>
</xsl:attribute>

Relative Dates

With Due Dates there are 2 things you want to know: which ones have been missed and how much time is left. Quick color indicators are very effective in drawing the eye to important information and the red and yellow rules we put in place above help quickly answer the first question.

So how do we communicate how much time is left? Calculated columns are no help here (you can’t use Today and even when you hack it, they only get evaluated on modifications, NOT on view). The answer is some XSL tweaking. We won’t be using the same wizard-like interface as above, but I promise the type of XSL we’re going to be doing isn’t too scary.

The first thing we need to do is add some XSL templates to help us perform some basic date calculations. The easiest way is to use Andy Lewis’ DateTemplates. We’re going to pull out the needed templates and paste them directly into our XSL (since I’ve had a lot of trouble referencing external XSL when using Designer). Here’s the templates we want:

<xsl:template name="getDayDelta">
	<xsl:param name="paramDateA"/>
	<xsl:param name="paramDateB"/>
	<xsl:variable name="dateADays">
		<xsl:call-template name="countDaysInDateWithLeapYearDays">
			<xsl:with-param name="paramDate" select="$paramDateA"/>
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:variable>
	<xsl:variable name="dateBDays">
		<xsl:call-template name="countDaysInDateWithLeapYearDays">
			<xsl:with-param name="paramDate" select="$paramDateB"/>
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:variable>
	<xsl:value-of select="number($dateADays) - number($dateBDays)"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="countDaysInDateWithLeapYearDays">
	<xsl:param name="paramDate"/>
	<xsl:variable name="year" select="substring-before($paramDate,'-')"/>
	<xsl:variable name="month" select="substring(substring-after($paramDate,'-'),1,2)"/>
	<xsl:variable name="day" select="substring(substring-after(substring-after($paramDate,'-'),'-'),1,2)"/>
	<xsl:variable name="rawYearDays" select="number($year) * 365"/>
	<xsl:variable name="rawLeapYears" select="floor($year div 4)"/>
	<xsl:variable name="centurySpan" select="floor($year div 100)"/>
	<xsl:variable name="fourCenturySpan" select="floor($year div 400)"/>
	<xsl:variable name="boolYearLeap">
		<xsl:call-template name="isLeapYear">
			<xsl:with-param name="paramYear" select="$year"/>
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:variable>
	<xsl:variable name="yearLeapAdjust">
		<xsl:choose>
			<xsl:when test="$boolYearLeap = 1 and (($month = 1) or ($month = 2 and $day != 29))">-1</xsl:when>
			<xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
		</xsl:choose>
	</xsl:variable>
	<xsl:variable name="yearDays" select="$rawYearDays + $rawLeapYears - $centurySpan + $fourCenturySpan + $yearLeapAdjust "/>
	<xsl:variable name="monthDays">
		<xsl:call-template name="ConvertMonthToTotalDays">
			<xsl:with-param name="paramMonth" select="$month"/>
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:variable>
	<xsl:variable name="totalDays" select="$yearDays + number($monthDays) + number($day)"/>
	<xsl:value-of select="$totalDays"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="isLeapYear">
	<xsl:param name="paramYear"/>
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="$paramYear mod 4 = 0 and ($paramYear mod 100 != 0) or ($paramYear mod 400 = 0)">1</xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise>0</xsl:otherwise>
	</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="ConvertMonthToTotalDays">
	<xsl:param name="paramMonth"/>
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=01">0</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=02">31</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=03">59</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=04">90</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=05">120</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=06">151</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=07">181</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=08">212</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=09">243</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=10">273</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=11">304</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="$paramMonth=12">334</xsl:when>
	</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

There are several templates above. We’re only going to call the getDayDelta function (it calls all the others). Copy the above XSL and in the Code view for your view of SharePoint Designer find the <Xsl> element. Skip a few lines down just past the last <xsl:param> element and paste the above. It should look something like this:

Just putting these templates in the XSL doesn’t actually do anything yet. So switch to the Split view and select one of the Due Date values. The corresponding XSL should be highlighted in the code section:

Replace the highlighted section from above with the following:

<xsl:variable name="DateDueDayDelta">
	<xsl:call-template name="getDayDelta">
		<xsl:with-param name="paramDateA" select="ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string($thisNode/@*[name()=current()/@Name]),1033,'yyyy-MM-dd')"/>
		<xsl:with-param name="paramDateB" select="ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string(ddwrt:Today()),1033,'yyyy-MM-dd')"/>
	</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:choose>
	<xsl:when test="$DateDueDayDelta=0">
		<xsl:text>Today</xsl:text>
	</xsl:when>
	<xsl:when test="$DateDueDayDelta=1">
		<xsl:text>1 Day</xsl:text>
	</xsl:when>
	<xsl:when test="$DateDueDayDelta=-1">
		<xsl:text>Yesterday!</xsl:text>
	</xsl:when>
	<xsl:when test="$DateDueDayDelta&lt;-1">
		<xsl:value-of select="concat($DateDueDayDelta,' Days!')"/>
	</xsl:when>
	<xsl:when test="$DateDueDayDelta&gt;1">
		<xsl:value-of select="concat($DateDueDayDelta,' Days')"/>
	</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>

In lines 1-6 we’re calling the getDayDelta function from the DateTemplates and storing the value in a new variable called DateDueDayDelta. This value is the number of days between the first parameter, Due Date, and the second parameter, Today. We’re using the ddwrt:FormatDateTime function to ensure the parameters are in the form expected by the template. We’re also using the ddwrt:Today() function to get the current date.

Lines 8-24 is an XSL switch statement. We’re using it to give friendly text based on the number of days between. If the dates are the same, then we print “Today“. If the Due Date is still 1 day in the future, we print “1 Day“. If the Due Date is 1 day in the past (-1), we print “Yesterday!“. If the Due Date is even further in the past (< -1), we print “# Days!“. If the Due Date is more than a day away (> 1), we print “# Days“. This will probably make more sense if you just save the view and refresh it in the browser:

WOO HOO! That’s a huge improvement – but it could be better. Although I think it makes more sense to see the dates as relative for quickly glancing at the list, I don’t like losing that information altogether. So let’s put it back in as a tooltip.

In the code view, right above where you pasted the <xsl:variable> element, paste the following:

<span>
	<xsl:attribute name="title">
		<xsl:value-of select="ddwrt:FormatDateTime(string($thisNode/@DueDate),1033,'dddd, M/d/yy ')"/>
	</xsl:attribute>

Then scroll down to the closing <xsl:choose> element and close the <span> tag. Altogether, things should look similar to this:

We just wrapped everything in a span so that we could set the title attribute (tooltip). We are again using the ddwrt:FormatDateTime function so that we can format the Due Date to show not just the date but the day of the week as well since this really helps people visualize the date when a calendar isn’t available. Save the view, refresh it in the browser and you should have something like this (The date this screenshot was taken was 2/7/2013):

You can quickly see how stacking these techniques can start to make lists much more intuitive and useful. WOWEE!

Showing Icons in a List View

February 6, 2013February 5, 2013 theChrisKent Branding, List/Library Settings, SharePoint, XSLT Conditional Formatting, Customize, Hide Content, icon, iconize, img, ListViewWebPart, picture library, priority, SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, status, task list, view, XSL, xsl:if, XSLT

Applies To: SharePoint 2010

Displaying icons in a list view is a great way to make things immediately more understandable, look awesome and make things oh so pretty. It’s a pretty common request and there are some interesting methods out there to get it done. There’s everything from deployed solutions to give you specialized columns to throwing some magical jQuery on the page. I personally prefer to keep things simple with some quick use of conditional formatting in SharePoint Designer.

Technically this solution uses some XSL which I’ll show you at the end, but you don’t need to know anything about that to get it to work. A good example of a list this works really well for is a Task list. I most often show icons based on Choice columns (since there’s a nice one-to-one mapping between icon and choice value), but you can easily adapt this solution to apply icons based off of other calculations or combination of columns (for instance, showing a frowny face when a due date has been missed and the status is not completed).

Here’s the standard Tasks list that we’re going to iconize:

Right away you’ll notice there’s at least 2 easy targets for icons. Both the Status and the Priority columns would really get a big upgrade if turned into icons.

You can put your icons wherever you want, but the easiest place is going to be a picture library right on the site. So create a new picture library called Icons (Site Actions > More Options > Library > Picture Library):

Head to the Icons library you just added and upload some icons. We’re going to upload 5 status icons and 3 priority icons. They should all be the same size (16×16 works well, but I’ll leave that up to you). There’s plenty of great icon sets out there (famfamfam and all it’s varients work very well). I’ll be using icons from the Fugue Icons collection since they look nice, there’s tons of them and they’re free:

Status Icons	Priority Icons
StatusNotStarted.png StatusInProgress.png StatusDeferred.png StatusWaiting.png StatusCompleted.png	PriorityLow.png PriorityNormal.png PriorityHigh.png

Now that the icons are uploaded, it’ll be easy to select them in Designer (You can also have designer upload them directly from your computer while you’re working but there is a bug that sometimes keeps the path relative to your machine rather than the picture library).

The basic steps we are going to perform 8 times (one for each image):

In Design view click in one of the cells for the column we are iconizing (Status or Priority)
On the Insert tab in the ribbon, choose Picture:
Choose the Icons library (double-click), and pick the appropriate icon image:
Fill out the Accessibility Properties dialog with the appropriate information:
With the new icon selected, type the value in the title field of the Tag Properties window (This will be the tooltip):
With the new image still selected, choose Hide Content in the Conditional Formatting dropdown in the Options tab on the ribbon:
In the Condition Criteria dialog, select the Field Name as the column, the Comparison as Not Equal and the Value to the value the icon should represent. This basically says when the value of this field isn’t the value this icon is meant for, then don’t show this icon:
Repeat for all remaining icons

Once you save in SharePoint Designer you should see something like this on the page (after a refresh of course):

That’s it, so super pretty! I’d recommend taking the actual text values away (you’ve got them in the tooltip) or at least adding some spacing.

For those that are interested, what designer’s really doing is generating some XSL templates for you. It’s the equivalent of choosing Customize Item in the Customize XSLT dropdown on the Design tab and adding some extra XSL. The XSL we’re talking about is a simple <xsl:if> element with the <img> tag inside. For instance the Completed Status icon looks like this in XSL:

<xsl:if test="not(normalize-space($thisNode/@Status) != 'Completed')"
  ddwrt:cf_explicit="1">
  	<img alt="Complete" longdesc="Complete"
  	  src="../../Icons/StatusCompleted.png" width="16" height="16"
  	  title="Complete" />
</xsl:if>

XSL isn’t nearly as scary as it seems, but Designer does a pretty good job of wrapping up a lot of basic formatting and conditional checks with some nice wizards – so why not use them?

Hiding the List Item Selection Boxes

February 5, 2013February 4, 2013 theChrisKent Branding, List/Library Settings, SharePoint, Web Parts Cascading Style Sheets, Checkbox, CSS, ListViewWebPart, Multiselection, s4-itm, s4-selectAllCbx, Select All, Selection, SharePoint, Tabular View

Applies to: SharePoint 2010

In SharePoint 2010 the standard listviewwebpart adds a checkbox to the left of each row. These only show up on hover and when you check the box the entire row is highlighted. You can check multiple boxes (or even use the helpful checkbox up top to select/unselect them all at once). This allows you to perform the same action on the selected item(s) using the ribbon.

Generally, this is a good feature. However, not everybody agrees. If you’re doing some customization and you don’t want them to show up, you can do it through CSS. Although this is the technique I previously used, I ran across a post by Glyn Clough that made me face palm. I’ll leave the CSS technique in case it helps somebody and since I can think of at least one or two reasons you might want it (simple removal of all select boxes across an entire site or keeping the selection logic without the boxes) but if you want the simple answer just skip right to that solution.

CSS

If you’re deploying a branding solution or already using a custom style sheet just add the following:

.s4-itm-hover .s4-itm-cbx,
.ms-itmhover:hover .s4-itm-cbx,
.s4-itm-selected .s4-itm-cbx,
.ms-inlineEditLink .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.ms-itmhover:hover .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.s4-itm-hover .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.s4-itm-selected .s4-itm-inlineedit
{
    position: relative;
    top: 0;
    display:none;
    visibility:hidden;
    width:0px;
}

Bam! no more selection boxes! However, I’ve got no clue why you would want to hide those for an entire site. More likely you want to hide these from a specific list view or page. To do this you can slap a content editor web part on the page(Edit Page, Add a Web Part, Media and Content > Content Editor) and click inside it. Then choose the HTML drop down and pick Edit HTML Source:

Then paste this inside there:

<style>
.s4-itm-hover .s4-itm-cbx,
.ms-itmhover:hover .s4-itm-cbx,
.s4-itm-selected .s4-itm-cbx,
.ms-inlineEditLink .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.ms-itmhover:hover .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.s4-itm-hover .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.s4-itm-selected .s4-itm-inlineedit {
    position: relative;
    top: 0;
    display:none;
    visibility:hidden;
    width:0px;
}
</style>

Save the page and you should see that all the list views on the page no longer have the selection box (although you can still click on the item(s) and get selection and multiselection):

So what about that Select All box up there? Why you want to break all the interfaces!?!

Unfortunately this isn’t as straight-forward. Microsoft did provide a convenient class for the checkbox: s4-selectAllCbx. However, until you hover over the web part, that class is not applied to the input control – Very strange. So applying some styles to that class will only take effect after someone has hovered over the part.

If you really want to do this with CSS you can add an additional selector to the above styles to get this (the key is that last selector .ms-vh-icon input):

<style>
.s4-itm-hover .s4-itm-cbx,
.ms-itmhover:hover .s4-itm-cbx,
.s4-itm-selected .s4-itm-cbx,
.ms-inlineEditLink .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.ms-itmhover:hover .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.s4-itm-hover .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.s4-itm-selected .s4-itm-inlineedit,
.ms-vh-icon input {
    position: relative;
    top: 0;
    display:none;
    visibility:hidden;
    width:0px;
}</style>

This hides them all but doesn’t shrink the column. There’s probably a CSS way to do that too, but honestly let’s just use the setting below.

The Real Solution

So everything above has been overkill. I remember looking for a simple setting to turn those boxes off and not finding it. I can’t be the only one since you’re reading this article – but it doesn’t get much easier than this.

Just edit the view (either the view used by the web part or an actual view on the list) and scroll down to the Tabular View section and uncheck the box next to Allow individual item checkboxes:

Click OK and now those checkboxes are removed! Unfortunately so is all selection and multi-selection. So if you have some strange need to keep the selection but remove the boxes, see the CSS solution above. If you just wanted to remove them altogether, remember to always look at the settings!

If you take a look at the XML generated for the view you’ll see that all this is doing is adding a TabularView attribute to your View element and setting it to FALSE.

The Chris Kent

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Month: February 2013

Unpublished View

Applies To: SharePoint

Refinement Panel Customization Saving Woes

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CSS

The Real Solution

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