How do I show a field in dispform that's been hidden in content type?

Question

Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise. This is document library for word documents. I have some fields that are set by workflow that I want end user to see but not be able to edit.

I was going to just use JQuery on the right forms, but field still loads in Document Information Panel in Word.

I found that hiding field under content type settings removes it from DIP, but now it's not on dispform. I was hoping the hide option would just hide it in HTML (so I could show it with Jquery), but it looks like it is not rendered at all.

So how can I display a field in dispform that's been hidden in content type?

or

How can I hide DIP in Word completely? (I'd be fine with field being optional and hiding it with script if there is some way I can lock it down in Word DIP). I tried custom DIP in infopath but this throws an error as our end users don't have infopath so custom DIP won't load.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I stumbled across the powershell script below while working on a different project. I am adding it in case someone else runs into the same problem I did. Vague do this and do that does no one any good.

http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/647760/Hiding-SharePoint-list-field-column-from-newform-a By Praveen Chandran, 3 Sep 2013

$WebUrl = "http://sitecollectionurl"
Write-Host "Opening Web" $WebUrl
$web = Get-SPWeb $WebUrl


$list = $web.Lists["ListName"];


$FieldGuid = New-Object System.Guid("cc9576b6-a166-47c9-bd89-7f47a3237e03");
$Field = $list.Fields[$FieldGuid];

$Field.ShowInNewForm = $false;
$Field.ShowInDisplayForm = $true;
$Field.ShowInEditForm = $false

$Field.Update();

$list.Update();
<span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">
</span>

Here, replace the $WebUrl with your site collection URL, and replace the "ListName" with your SPList name.

And replace the Guid "cc9576b6-a166-47c9-bd89-7f47a3237e03" with the id of the field to be hidden.

For getting the id of the field , you can use 'SharePoint Manager' tool. Its from codeplex and it is free.

Answer 2

If the column is a custom column you created, you should use ShowInFileDlg="FALSE" to hide it from the DIP. With ShowInDiplayForm="TRUE" will still show it in the display form.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa543225.aspx