How to temporarily hide a column in a list view

Question

To put this in context, what I need to do to complete work on a custom action is to hide a particular column from users who aren't members of a given group. Given that the custom action is implemented with C# code, I'm looking for a tidy way to do this programmatically.

For a brief moment, it looked like a single line of code would do the trick:

SPContext.Current.List.DefaultView.ViewFields.Delete("Name Of Column I Want To Hide");

Even though the view seems to change internally, this statement seems to have no effect.

There are a few available examples that use ViewFields.Delete, but they're all followed by calls to ViewFields.Update() - in other words, they presume that you want to permanently remove the column. But I just want to remove it for the current context.

Can anyone here enlighten me as to what tactic might work in this case?

Thanks in advance Josh

Answer 1

WIth the standard controls, it's not possible to put authorization on viewing/editing on a field. The smallest scope is per listitem.

I don't know if this would be an option:

• create two listviews and put them on your page, both with an audience on it: one for group 1, one for the others.

this is no security, but this way you are hiding that one column for that one specific audience.

Answer 2

You can accomplish this without coding using SharePoint Forms Designer, it allow to display or hide specified fields on forms just by dragging and dropping it, you also can create forms with different fields displayed for specified SharePoint group.