List View Web part not showing all available views for list

Question

We have added a list view web part to a page, and we get the Current View link in the web part. Which is configurable when modifying the actual web part.

What we'd like to see (instead of having to click the ellipses button/context menu to get the other views) is the views displayed horizontally like when you are viewing the list itself.

When viewing the list itself, we see All Items View 1 View 2, etc.

Is this possible in the list view web part to display all available views in a horizontal/breadcrumb layout? Please advise.

Trying this in simple webpart code snippet to get back all views:

<script>
var viewCollection = null;
    function runCode() {

        var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
        if (clientContext != undefined && clientContext != null) {
            var web = clientContext.get_web();

            var listCollection = web.get_lists();
            var list = listCollection.getByTitle("MyListName");
            this.viewCollection = list.get_views();

            //var viewInfo = new SP.ViewCreationInformation();
            //viewInfo.set_title('MyView');
            //this.viewCollection.add(viewInfo);

            clientContext.load(this.viewCollection);
            clientContext.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.onQuerySucceeded), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onQueryFailed));
        }
    }

    function onQuerySucceeded() {
        var viewInfo = 'Tasks list current views: \n\n';
        var viewEnumerator = this.viewCollection.getEnumerator();
        while (viewEnumerator.moveNext()) {
            var view = viewEnumerator.get_current();
            viewInfo += view.get_title() + '\n';
        }
        alert(viewInfo);
    }

    function onQueryFailed(sender, args) {
        alert('Request failed. ' + args.get_message() + '\n' + args.get_stackTrace());
    }
</script>
<a onclick='return runCode();'>Click here</a>

Answer 1

Since you are using SharePoint 2013 I would recommend you to consider the following approach. In SharePoint 2013 was introduced a so called Client Rendering Mode (CSR) which is intended for rendering of List Views and Forms using HTML and JavaScript and which is a default rendering mode.

About View selector menu

ClientPivotControl control (clienttemplates.js) is intended for rendering View selector menu, SurfacedPivotCount property defines the amount of view menu options rendered horizontally (default value is 3)

How to display all view options using CSR

The following template demonstrates how to override SurfacedPivotCount property in order to display all view menu options:

function renderHeaderTemplateWithAllViewsMenu(renderCtx, fRenderHeaderColumnNames){
    var viewData = eval(renderCtx.ListSchema.ViewSelectorPivotMenuOptions);
    ClientPivotControl.prototype.SurfacedPivotCount = viewData.length -2; //display all View options except 'Create View' & 'Modify View'   
    return RenderHeaderTemplate(renderCtx, fRenderHeaderColumnNames); //render default Header template
}

SPClientTemplates.TemplateManager.RegisterTemplateOverrides({
  Templates: {
    Header: renderHeaderTemplateWithAllViewsMenu
  }
});

How to apply the changes

There are at least two options how to apply the changes:

1. Using JSLink property of XLV web part
2. Place JavaScript template on page via Script Editor/Content Editor web parts

Here is how to apply the changes using the second option:

1. Switch the page (NewForm.aspx) into edit mode
2. Add Script Editor webpart right below the list view web part.
3. Put the specified code by wrapping it using script tag code into the Script Editor, for example: <script type="text/javascript">{Template JS code goes here}</script>
4. Save the page

Result

Assume a Workflow Tasks list and all view menu options should be rendered. After applying the corresponding JavaScript template the List View will be rendered as shown on picture below:

Answer 2

Maybe I am missing something but why not add a list view web part for each view and use a simple JavaScript to hide or show only the views you are interested in seeing. If this sounds like a solution for you leave a comment and I will send you or post here a script I wrote that simulates tabs for the list view web parts on a page.