A list definition defines a schema for a SharePoint list. It contains information on what views are being used, which columns and content types are being used, and other metadata information.
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Save metadata on this list as social tags
On the UI, for a document Library settings, under "Enterprise Metadata and Keywords Settings" there is an option to
"Save metadata on this list as social tags"
Is there a way to activate this, ...
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How to disable launch modal dialog in list definition schema.xml?
I have a sharepoint 2010 site template. The site template activates a feature that deploys several lists. Some lists need to open the new/edit/display forms in full page mode.
Is there a way to ...
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How can I export a schema.xml file for a list from a SharePoint site?
I've been troubleshooting my schema.xml file for a list definition and getting more and more frustrated.
So I thought, "Hey, I'll just get it to look right in the UI and then export that and compare ...
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What options are available to me to find lists that were created using a specific list definition?
I have many lists, some of which were created using a custom and now-obsolete list definition. I need a programmatic way of finding out which lists were created using that old definition.
Currently ...
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How can I provision a list with a calculated field?
I am trying to create some fields, a content type, a list definition and a list instance in Visual Studio. All of my fields are working, showing up in the list etc. except for calculated fields. What ...
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Is a ContentType worthwhile/necessary in this situation?
I'm creating a custom List Definition. I've previously been told that I should create a ContentType, and a ListDefinition from that. But this seems to mean a lot of duplication in my project files. So ...
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Trying to hide the title column the sharepoint way
I am currently just messing around with defining lists via the elements.xml
Content Type
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements ...
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error activate feature list template/instance in site definition
i've created a SiteDefiniton project and a Sharepoint ListDefinition project. In the SiteDefinition I created a listinstance of my template, but in deployment the activation of the ListInstanceFeture ...
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Issue adding description column to custom document library in VS2010
I want to add a description column to my List definiton. However when i do it the column does not show up on the EditForm dialog so that you can actually set the description. Can someone look at the ...
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How do I deploy custom list edit forms in the sandbox?
I'm creating a List Definition for use on 2007, 2010 (Sandboxed), and 2010 (unrestricted) that will need custom new and edit forms; unfortunately the Sandbox specifically excludes custom application ...
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How to modify width of standard dialog form sharepoint 2010
Please, help me!
I need to modify width of standard dialog form for adding element into library.
If I click to ribbon button for adding element, form opened with width=402px:
<div ...
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Using part of date in CAML query
I want to create new view for my list. The list contains a column called Year, which is a number and contains, as name suggests, year. Eg.:
2012
2011
2010
2009
I would like create a view, where I ...
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Display an SPFieldUrlValue property from a BCS Model
I have a pretty simple BCS model:
public Guid Id { get; set; }
public SPFieldUrlValue Url { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
public string Owner { get; set; }
public DateTime ...
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Custom list defintion with OrderedList property [closed]
I've created a custom list in SharePoint 2010 from a custom content type (inherit from item) and I would like to give the users the option to order the items in this list - similar to how users can ...
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Add fields to New/Edit form with custom list definition (document library)
I'm using Visual Studio 2010's template "List Definition" to create a new list definition for a document library.
Nothing fancy at all - I only want to add a couple of fields to the list and to the ...
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Generate ListDefinition from ListTemplate
Is there a way or tool to generate list-definition projects/features from an existing list template?
(Sharepoint 2010)
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Set “Allow management of content types?” set to “Yes” within a Content Type or List Definition
How do you set "Allow management of content types?" to "Yes" within a Content Type or List Definition?
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Composite unique indexes in Sharepoint 2010
I'm looking for something like Composite unique indexes in Sharepoint 2010. I have found that I can make some field in list unique. But how to make unique index composed from two or more cols in list? ...
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Programmatically creating a list
I have created a new list definition following the steps listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg276355.aspx
I can create new lists using this definition in the browser with out any ...
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Changing site/list definitions post-production
There have been several questions asked on this site regarding the best way to provision sites and lists (definition schemas vs. templates vs. the object model vs. the web interface vs. provisioning ...
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How to determine the List Template (SPListTemplate) that was used to create a list?
I am using the following code to create a custom list from a custom list definition. Is there a way, after the list is created to determine which definition it was created from?
SPListTemplate ...
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Disable certain list templates
We have a specific requirement, where we have to create dedicated site collection for hosting discussion boards. How we can disable all list and library templates and level only discussions, so users ...
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Updating list definition using features
I have a feature that deploys content types, a list definition and template that uses these content types and finally a list instance. This feature is already in production.
Now we have a change ...
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Creating a document library list definition in visual studio 2010
In visual studio 2010 I create a new empty sharepoint project. I then add a new list definition selected document library as the type of list. It generates the def and I then change the type in the ...
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How to Deploy Custom list definition in Central admin so that it appears in all WebApps I create?
I have created a custom list definition with my custom fields
Now I want to deploy my feature in farm level i.e
1 When I deploy my solution in central admin as a farm solution that particular list ...
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List Schema : Title Field ID
When creating custom List definitions, what should the ID value of the "Title" field be?
At one point I was told I should be using the OOTB ID (fa564e0f-0c70-4ab9-b863-0177e6ddd247) as it caused ...
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List instance not working after solution retraction
I have a project with a
Content Type
A list definition based on the
Content Type
A list instance
When I deploy this solution, it all works fine.
To my knowledge, when this solution is retracted, ...
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Importing a list from one visual studio project to another
I have sp project (say project a) in visual studio that is supposed to deploy the sp solution to my website (say that its running at http://localhost:xxxx/).
My goal would be to add the list ...
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Add content type from sandboxed solution to list definition (farm solution) does not work
I'm using a sandboxed solution from a 3rd party vendor which contains some site columns and a site content type.
I want to add this content type to my document library definition in CAML.
But when I ...
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Hide custom list definition?
I have a custom list definition, created in visual studio. We no longer want users to create lists from it. We have existing lists created from it, therefore deactivating the solution is not an ...
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How to make Add new Item link to navigate to Custom Form
I have made Custom Content Type, and List Definition from that Content Type. What I'm trying to do now, is create custom display/edit/add forms for List Item, and when user clicks on Add New Item, ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Could not find any recognizable digits
Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Could not find any recognizable digits.
Dos anyone know what this error message means? I'm trying to deploy a feature containing some, content ...
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Custom list definition - fields in Elements.xml and Schema.xml
I'm creating a custom list definition in SharePoint 2010 by following this article. The tutorial is OK and it works.
There is a thing that I don't understand though. Why do I need to insert the ...
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List Definition and List Instance in SharePoint 2010
What is List Definition and List Instance in SharePoint 2010?
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Best practices for updating list template schema files in SharePoint
I have a requirement to update the schema files of a list template which modifies the options available to the fields.
But, when I am updating the schema file the options for the already defined ...
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Limiting List Permissions Programmatically
Scenario:
When a User (let say Controller 1) creates a site using a site definition, "which already has a Custom List definition in it and different other things(like lists, webparts)"
Custom List:
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Add image column to Sharepoint Foundation list
Trying to use Visual Studio to add an image/thumbnail column to the schema.xml of a Sharepoint Foundation list (Can't use the Type="Image" as this is Foundation). Any ideas?
TIA
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Custom list definition using OOB Site column causing problem
I have a custom list definition where i want to use the OOB URL site column plus a site column that i created in another list definition. When i do it and try to display the All Items view it says it ...
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how to get guid in list definition
I have noticed that many examples of internet which show creating the list definition have a GUID in the id of the field. How is this ID got? e.x.
Where is this GUID got from?
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Is it possible to create a List Definition project with multiple custom content types, pushed to several sites at once?
There's plenty of documentation online on how to configure a List Definition project to create a single list using a custom content type, but how does one go about creating a project that contains ...
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Add a last modified date column for each row in Sharepoint 2010 list
I have a list where I have some columns, my requirement is that I need to add a column, which will update the last modified date for each row.
That is if I edit one row today, add today's date to ...
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Change Add new Item Text
I've developed a ListTemplate via ListDefinition in SP 2010 using Visual Studio. Nearly everything works fine, but the Link at the bottom of my ListInstance is missing the Text "Add new Item". Is ...
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ContenTypes on List Definition not added
I've an ListDefinition with some references to existing Content Types (provided by CTH) but when the list is created the content types are not added.
elements.xml
<Elements ...
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Lookup column of type “User” showing #ERR
I've defined two list definitions and instances in a feature in VS2010.
One list only contains a required field "Employee" which is of type User.
The second list has two fields, a simple text field ...
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List Templates and Custom Contenttypes missing document template on list creation
I want to create a new document library definition for general use in our SharePoint environment. This new list has some predefined content-types. Users will add this list themselves one or more times ...
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Using an imported list template's (build in SP designer) xml as the basis for a new list definition in VS
I'm a SP 2010 beginner (although a long time ASP.NET developer) and I thought a good learning exercise would be to:
Create a list template in SP Designer
Import that list into VS 2010
Create a new ...
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How do I set the property for a custom field type that I am using in my custom list definition?
I have a list definition that will have a title, description, and a few picture fields. Each entry in the list will represent a project. I do not like to use the SharePoint hyperlink/picture field ...
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How to handle 'Feature for list template is not installed in this farm' for custom lists
I have a feature in which I have a custom ListDefinition. Within the definition, I also have a ListInstance based off of the definition. When installing and activating the feature, these lists are ...
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Updating a content type via feature receiver at the list definition level
Problem is I am trying to update a content type (created within a list definition, going into a new list instance) and it is not liking the ID I pass in code. I tried passing JUST the child ID, ...
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Provision list instance with title and description from resources issue
I have created feature which contains list definition and list instance based on that definition. I also added feature resource files to localize it. I created invariant and pl-PL resource files. When ...
