Opening up a popup and crop its target content

Ever thought about having to open up a Iframe but just wanting to show a cropped set of contents inside it.  ie, You want to show only a section of the page minus its top menu and its
left menu.

Well there is a rather convenient way I found out after researching on various webmasters forums.  But I found it only worked smoothly opening it up in a popup window.  And assuming you are using IE on a set of Internal sites.  For example, we have 2 Internal Browser based sites.  We just want some content to be fired up from site one in a popup window containing content in the second site minus the top and left menus.  Here is what I had to do.

In Site A, Simply create a link and get the link to open in a new target window.

Link to a HTML Page with the following code.  Make the Height and the width about how big your cropped section needs to be.  In this case I have set 750 height by 820 width.

<script type="text/javascript">

var strParam1 = "Start.html";

winRef = window.open(strParam1,"My_Window","height=750,left=320,location=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=no,status=no,titlebar=no,toolbar=no,top=230,width=820",false);

// Fool it to open a blank window so that it can close without prompting in JavaScript.
window.open('', '_self', '');
window.close();

winRef.focus();

//}
</script>

Then you can see, there is a second page that needs to be created that this page opens to its content.  In this case I have called it Start.html.

In this page just put in this simple IFRAME HTML code.

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<iframe src="http://mydomain.com/default.aspx" width="1400px" height="1080px" name="myframe" style="position:absolute; top:-190px; left: -150px;  right:-200px; overflow: 

hidden;"></iframe>
</td>

</tr>
</table>

This fires the frame inside the popup window and the style property of top -190 and left -150 and right -200.  Re-positions the target content within the frame so that it looks like it has been cropped.  Because you have set the popup window size and has suppressed the scrollbars, user can't scroll to see the top or left hand side menu.  

When Retracting Solutions - SharePoint Admin Services Must Run on All WFE and APP Servers in Farm

Whilst trying to perform a simple task of retracting a solution or package from a SharePoint 2007 Web application.  There it showed an error in the retraction status.  In the Timer Job Status under Global Configuration section in the Central Admin, there will be an error entry for the solution's retraction.

After some digging around, it seemed like one of the root causes of the problem was that we have a WFE Server and an Application Server in the farm.  Even though the Application Server had served no Web Site, it was essential that the Windows SharePoint Administration Service is running.  If it is not, this type of action on the Central Admin Console do not fully run.

Anyway, started the service then in order to refresh the status.  We need to do into the Central Admin's  Global Configuration - > Time Job Definitions.  Remove the error job that is hanging there for the retraction.  Then use stsadmin in the 12 Bin drectory and run a 

retractsolution command 

stsadm -o retractsolution -name <solution name> [-url] <URL name>

or retractwppack command if it was a .cab file

stsadm -o retractwppack -name <name> -url <URL name> -immediate

and voila problem cleared.

Look Up Online WebService in a OOTB SharePoint form

Adapated some script to allow a SharePoint OOTB form for one of its fields to call an XML Web Service to return an array of data.

For example, we have a field for a Finance Ticker, user types the ticker code as they type, it takes what has been typed in so far and queries an online web service that can lookup these codes, for example google and yahoo have this service and so do some other finance institutes.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://xyz.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
 
 // Get all top level Keywords from Global Compass Site.  
 function getKeyWords()
 {
  $(document).ready(function() {
        var soapEnv =
            "<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'> \
                <soapenv:Body> \
                     <GetListItems xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/'> \
                        <listName>Pre-defined Tags</listName> \
                        <viewFields> \
                            <ViewFields> \
                               <FieldRef Name='Title' /> \
                               <FieldRef Name='ID' /> \
                           </ViewFields> \
                        </viewFields> \
                    </GetListItems> \
                </soapenv:Body> \
            </soapenv:Envelope>";

        $.ajax({
            url: "http://xyz.com/_vti_bin/lists.asmx",
            type: "POST",
            dataType: "xml",
            data: soapEnv,
            complete: processKeyWords,
            contentType: "text/xml; charset=\"utf-8\""
        });
     });
 }

    function processKeyWords(xData, status) 
    {
  var strForDropDown = "";   
     $(xData.responseXML).find("z\\:row").each(function() {
            strForDropDown = strForDropDown + $(this).attr("ows_Title") + "@" + $(this).attr("ows_ID") + "|";
        });
        // Now populate the keyword dropdown with our extracted data
        populateGlobalCompassKeywordDropDown(strForDropDown);
    }

    //populate the keyword drop down
 function populateGlobalCompassKeywordDropDown(strValues)
 {

  //Clear the dropdown if there is anything.
  document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl06_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options.length = 0;
  document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl06_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[0] = new Option("(None)", "None");
  if (strValues != "")
  {
   
   var item_array = strValues.split("|");
    
   for (var iCount = 0; iCount < (item_array.length-1); iCount++)
   {
    //alert(item_array[iCount].toString());    
    var items = item_array[iCount].split("@");
    
    try
    {
     // Force "None" into all values because it needs this value to fool SharePoint into accepting it when saving 
     document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl06_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[iCount+1] = new Option(items[0], "None");
    }
    catch(ex)
    {
     alert("Possible array out of bound error - populateGlobalCompassKeywordDropDown(strValues)");
    }
   }
   
  }
  else
  {
   document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl06_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[0] = new Option("(None)", "None");
  }

 }    

 // Get all research docs containing keyword that was selected from Global Compass Site.  
 function getResearchDocs()
 {
  
  var strValueSelected = document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl06_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl06_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.selectedIndex].text;
  strValueSelected = strValueSelected.replace("&","&amp;")
    
  $(document).ready(function() {
        var soapEnv =
            "<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'> \
                <soapenv:Body> \
                     <GetListItems xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/'> \
                        <listName>Pages</listName> \
                        <query><Query><Where><Contains><FieldRef Name='TagsFieldForKWizComTags1'/><Value Type='Text'>"+strValueSelected+"</Value></Contains></Where><OrderBy><FieldRef Name='Title' Ascending='TRUE' /></OrderBy></Query></query> \
                        <viewFields> \
                            <ViewFields> \
                               <FieldRef Name='FileRef' /> \
                               <FieldRef Name='Title' /> \
                               <FieldRef Name='ID' /> \
                               <FieldRef Name='FileLeafRef' /> \
                           </ViewFields> \
                        </viewFields> \
                    </GetListItems> \
                </soapenv:Body> \
            </soapenv:Envelope>";

        $.ajax({
            url: "http://xyz.com/globalcompass/_vti_bin/lists.asmx",
            type: "POST",
            dataType: "xml",
            data: soapEnv,
            complete: processResearchDocs,
            contentType: "text/xml; charset=\"utf-8\""
        });
     });
 }

    function processResearchDocs(xData, status) 
    {
  
  var strForDropDown = "";   
     $(xData.responseXML).find("z\\:row").each(function() {
            strForDropDown = strForDropDown + $(this).attr("ows_FileRef") + "@" + $(this).attr("ows_Title") + "|";
        });
        // Now populate the department dropdown with our extracted data
        
        populateGlobalCompassDocumentDropDown(strForDropDown);
    }

  //populate the Global Compass Document drop down
 function populateGlobalCompassDocumentDropDown(strValues)
 {

  //Clear the dropdown if there is anything.
  document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options.length = 0;
  document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[0] = new Option("(None)", "None");
  if (strValues != "")
  {
   
   var item_array = strValues.split("|");
    
   for (var iCount = 0; iCount < (item_array.length-1); iCount++)
   {
    //alert(item_array[iCount].toString());    
    var items = item_array[iCount].split("@");
    
    try
    {
     document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[iCount+1] = new Option(items[1], items[0]);
    }
    catch(ex)
    {
     alert("Possible array out of bound error - populateGlobalCompassDocumentDropDown(strValues)");
    }
   }
   
  }
  else
  {
   document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[0] = new Option("(None)", "None");
  }
 }    

 // Function that sets the URL of the selected research papers to the event into the
 // Rich Text box that is used to hold the Associated research field.
 function setText()
 {
  var strHostname = window.location.hostname;
  
  var strURL = document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.selectedIndex].value;
  
  var item_array = strURL.split("#");

  strURL = "http://"+strHostname+"/"+item_array[1]; 
   
  var strResearchDocumentName = document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.selectedIndex].text;

  var xFrame = document.getElementById("ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl08_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_TextField_iframe");
  
  var superString = "<a href='"+strURL+"' target='_blank'>"+strResearchDocumentName+"</a><br>";
 
  xFrame.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML += "<a target='_blank' href='"+strURL+"'>"+strResearchDocumentName+"</a><br>";
  
  var strStringToSave = xFrame.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML;

  strStringToSave = strStringToSave.replace("<P>&nbsp;</P>", "");
  
  xFrame.contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML = strStringToSave;

 }

 // function to override default save actions
 // we need to reset the global compass document to None so SharePoint will save because it is expecting this value in its integrity check.
 function setGlobalCompassDocumentToNoneBeforeSave()
 {
   
  document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.selectedIndex = 0;
  //alert(document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.options[document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.selectedIndex].value);
  
  if (!PreSaveItem()) return false;WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$m$g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554$ctl00$toolBarTbl$RightRptControls$ctl00$ctl00$diidIOSaveItem", "", true, "", "", false, true));
  if (!PreSaveItem()) return false;WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions("ctl00$m$g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554$ctl00$toolBarTbltop$RightRptControls$ctl01$ctl00$diidIOSaveItem", "", true, "", "", false, true));

  return true 
 } 

 getKeyWords();
 
 // Add the onchange event so that next time its selection is changed, it will trigger a JQuery call to lookup the research docs.
 document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl06_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.setAttribute("onchange", getResearchDocs);
 
 // Add the onchange event so when an article is selected its URL reference link gets populates into the Research box text box.
 document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl07_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_DropDownChoice.setAttribute("onchange", setText);
 
 // Add onclick event to intercept save button actions
 document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_toolBarTbltop_RightRptControls_ctl01_ctl00_diidIOSaveItem.setAttribute("onclick", setGlobalCompassDocumentToNoneBeforeSave);
 document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_toolBarTbl_RightRptControls_ctl00_ctl00_diidIOSaveItem.setAttribute("onclick", setGlobalCompassDocumentToNoneBeforeSave);
  
 document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl13_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_TextField.setAttribute("onkeydown", showResultGoogleProtoType);
    //document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl13_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_TextField.setAttribute("onkeyup", setSelectedColour);
    //document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl13_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_TextField.setAttribute("onkeypress", showResultGoogleProtoType);
                       
 
 ///////////////////////
 // Stock lookup section
 
 function waitSeconds()
 {
  var x = 0;
  for(var nCount=0; nCount<10000; nCount++)
  {
   x++;
  }
 }

 
 function setSelectedColour()
 {
  //alert("Set");
  var e = window.event;         
  var nMaxRows = getMaxRowsInTable();

  switch(e.keyCode) 
        {             
            case 38: // up key                
             //alert("Up");
             waitSeconds();
             break;             
            
            case 40: // down key                 
                //alert("Down");
             waitSeconds();
             break;   
            
   case 13: // Enter key
    alert("Enter");

    break; 
    
        } 
  
  var objTable = document.getElementById("recordTab1");
  
  if (objTable)
  {   
   if (gnSelectedIndex < nMaxRows)
   {
    var objTR = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex];
    $(document).ready(function(){
    objTR.style.background="#ffbe6b";});
   }
  }
  
 }
 
 // Function that looks up what was typed in and calls External Web Service to bring back the matches
 function showResult()
 {
  
  var e = window.event;         
        var nMaxRows = getMaxRowsInTable();
            
            switch(e.keyCode) 
            {             
            case 38: // up key                
             
             ScrollUpSelectedIndex(nMaxRows);
             break;             
            
            case 40: // down key                 
                
                ScrollDownSelectedIndex(nMaxRows);    
             break;   
             
   case 13: // Enter key
    GetSelectedRow();
    break;     
            }                  
  
  var str = document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl13_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_TextField.value;
  
  document.getElementById("livesearch").style.display = "block";
  if (str.length==0)
    { 
     document.getElementById("livesearch").innerHTML="";
     document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border="0px";
     return;
    }
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
    {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
     xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    }
  else
    {// code for IE6, IE5
     xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
  xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
    {
     if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
      {
       var strOutputHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
       //alert(strOutputHTML);
       var strEnteredValue = str;
       strEnteredValue = "," + strEnteredValue;
       
       strOutputHTML = replaceAll(strOutputHTML, "#ffffcc", "#deebde");
       strOutputHTML = replaceAll(strOutputHTML, "#ccffff", "#ffbe6b");
    strOutputHTML = replaceAll(strOutputHTML, "false", "");
    strOutputHTML = replaceAll(strOutputHTML, strEnteredValue, "");

    strOutputHTML = strOutputHTML + "<table width='100%' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='2' ><tr><td align='right' class='content_TC_td_a'><a href='JavaScript:closeme();'>Close</a></td></tr>";
    
       document.getElementById("livesearch").innerHTML=strOutputHTML;
       document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border="1px solid #A5ACB2";
       document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border="1px solid #006939";
       
      }
    }
  xmlhttp.open("GET","http://www.quamnet.com/stocksearchboxajax.action?formName=quotefrm&stockName="+str,true);
  //xmlhttp.open("GET","http://www.google.com/finance/match?matchtype=matchall&q="+str,true);

  xmlhttp.send();
  
  

 }

 function showResultGoogleProtoType()
 {
    
                           
  var str = document.forms['aspnetForm'].ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl13_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_TextField.value;
  
  document.getElementById("livesearch").style.display = "block";
  if (str.length==0)
    { 
     document.getElementById("livesearch").innerHTML="";
     document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border="0px";
     return;
    }
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
    {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
     xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    }
  else
    {// code for IE6, IE5
     xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
  xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
    {
     if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
      {
       var strOutputHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
       
       //var strEnteredValue = str;
       //strEnteredValue = "," + strEnteredValue;
       
       strOutputHTML = strOutputHTML.replace("{\n\"matches\" : [\n", "");
       strOutputHTML = strOutputHTML.replace("],\"all\":false}", "");
       strOutputHTML = strOutputHTML.replace("],\"all\":true}", "");
    strOutputHTML = replaceAll(strOutputHTML, '"', "");

    //],"all":true}
    //alert(strOutputHTML);
    
    var objSuggestions = strOutputHTML.split("}\n,{");
    var strSanitised;
        
    for(var nCount=0; nCount < objSuggestions.length; nCount++)
    {
     
     var objSubArray = objSuggestions[nCount].split(":"); 
     
     strSanitised += objSubArray[1];
     strSanitised += "|";
     strSanitised += objSubArray[2];
     strSanitised += "|";
     strSanitised += objSubArray[3];
     strSanitised += "\n";
    }    
    //alert("San 1 "+"\n"+strSanitised);
    
    //strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, "e:", "");
    strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, ", e", "");
    //strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, "n:", "");
    strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, ", n", "");
    //strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, "t:", "");
    //strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, "t|", "");
    strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, "undefined{", "");
    strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, ", id", "");
    strSanitised = replaceAll(strSanitised, "undefined", "");

    //alert("San 2 "+"\n"+strSanitised);
        
    var strHTMLTable = makeHTMLTable(strSanitised);
    
    //alert(strHTMLTable);
    //strOutputHTML = replaceAll(strOutputHTML, "false", "");
    //strOutputHTML = replaceAll(strOutputHTML, strEnteredValue, "");

    strHTMLTable = strHTMLTable + "<table width='100%' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='2' ><tr><td align='right' class='content_TC_td_a'><a href='JavaScript:closeme();'>Close</a></td></tr></table>";
    //document.write(strHTMLTable);
       document.getElementById("livesearch").innerHTML=strHTMLTable;
       document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border="1px solid #A5ACB2";
       document.getElementById("livesearch").style.border="1px solid #006939";
       
      }
    }
  //xmlhttp.open("GET","http://www.quamnet.com/stocksearchboxajax.action?formName=quotefrm&stockName="+str,true);
  xmlhttp.open("GET","http://www.google.com/finance/match?matchtype=matchall&q="+str,true);

  xmlhttp.send();
  
  var e = window.event;         
       
  var nMaxRows = getMaxRowsInTable();
       

        switch(e.keyCode) 
        {             
            case 38: // up key                
             ScrollUpSelectedIndex(nMaxRows);
             break;             
            
            case 40: // down key                 
                ScrollDownSelectedIndex(nMaxRows);
             break;   
            
   case 13: // Enter key
    GetSelectedRow();
    break; 
    
        } 
 }

  // A function that processes our sanitised string into HTML table format to be placed into a Div's InnerHTML for presentation
 function makeHTMLTable(strSanitised)
 {
  var strReturn = "<table width='480px' id='recordTab1' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' style='background:#deebde;'>";

  var objRecord = strSanitised.split("\n");
  
  for(var nCount=0; nCount < objRecord.length; nCount++)
  {
   var objItem = objRecord[nCount].split("|");

   //alert(objItem.length);
   if (objItem.length == 3)
   {
    if(objItem[0] != "" && objItem[1] != "" && objItem[2] != "")
    {
    strReturn += "<tr onmouseover='this.style.background=\"#ffbe6b\";SetSelectIndex("+ nCount +");' onmouseout='this.style.background=\"#deebde\"' style=\"cursor:pointer;\" onclick=\"selectValue('" + objItem[2] + "','" + objItem[0] + "')\">";
    strReturn += "<td class=content_TC_td_a width='15%'>"+ objItem[0] +"</td>";
    strReturn += "<td class=content_TC_td_a width='70%'>"+ objItem[1] +"</td>";
    strReturn += "<td class=content_TC_td_a width='15%'>"+ objItem[2] +"</td></tr>";
    }
   }
   else
   {
    // alert("Something was undefined..");
   }
  }
  
  strReturn += "</table>";
  
  return strReturn;
 }


 // function that invokes a Google Finance display details window for stock code selected
 function selectValue(strExchangeName, strCode)
 {
  document.getElementById("ctl00_m_g_53cc0ef7_5cec_44ae_ab5b_55bf562e4554_ctl00_ctl04_ctl13_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_TextField").value = strCode;
  document.getElementById("livesearch").style.display = "none";
  
  var strParam = strExchangeName + ":";
   
  strParam = strParam + strCode;

  strParam = "http://www.google.com/finance?q=" + strParam + "&client=news#";
  
  winRef = window.open(strParam,"MAM_Google_Info","height=600,left=900,location=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=no,titlebar=no,toolbar=no,top=100,width=750",false); 
  
  winRef.focus();
 }
 
 // function to close the stock list's div
 function closeme()
 {
  document.getElementById("livesearch").style.display = "none";
 }
 
 // a replace all string function
 function replaceAll(txt, replace, with_this) {  return txt.replace(new RegExp(replace, 'g'),with_this);}

    // Variable for our Google Finance lookup window
 var winRef;
 
 // Variable for current selected Row
 var gnSelectedIndex = 0;
 
 // Variable to track the current select row's cell value
 var gnCurrentTableRowCellValue = 0;
 
 // function that moves the selected row of stock entries up
 function ScrollUpSelectedIndex(nMaxRowsInTable)
 {
  
  if (gnSelectedIndex > 0 && gnSelectedIndex < nMaxRowsInTable)
  {
   var objTable = document.getElementById("recordTab1");
    
   var objTR = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex -1];
    
   var objTRPrevious = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex];
    
   objTR.style.background="#ffbe6b";
   objTRPrevious.style.background="#deebde";
   
   
   gnSelectedIndex = gnSelectedIndex - 1;
   gnCurrentTableRowCellValue = gnSelectedIndex;
  }
  else
  {
   if (gnSelectedIndex == nMaxRowsInTable)
   {
    var objTable = document.getElementById("recordTab1");
    
    var objTR = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex-2];
    var objTRPrevious = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex-1];
 
    objTR.style.background="#ffbe6b";
    objTRPrevious.style.background="#deebde";

    gnSelectedIndex = gnSelectedIndex - 2;
    gnCurrentTableRowCellValue = gnSelectedIndex;
   }
  }
 }
 
 // function that moves the selected row of stock entries down
 function ScrollDownSelectedIndex(nMaxRowsInTable)
 {
  if (gnSelectedIndex < nMaxRowsInTable) // Need to work our max number
  {   
   if (gnSelectedIndex == 0)
   {
    var objTable = document.getElementById("recordTab1");
     
    var objTR = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex];
    
        
    objTR.style.background="#ffbe6b";
   }
   else
   {
    var objTable = document.getElementById("recordTab1");
     
    var objTR = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex];
    var objTRPrevious = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex-1];
     

    
    objTR.style.background="#ffbe6b";
    objTRPrevious.style.background="#deebde";
    
   }
   gnCurrentTableRowCellValue = gnSelectedIndex;
   gnSelectedIndex = gnSelectedIndex + 1;
  }
 
   
 }

    // Gets / traps the current selected row's cell value based on an enter keey being pressed
 function GetSelectedRow()
 {
  var objTable = document.getElementById("recordTab1");
  
  var objTR = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnCurrentTableRowCellValue];
  var objTD = objTR.getElementsByTagName("td")[0];
  
  // first item element of the childNodes list of mycel
  var objSelectedCellText = objTD.childNodes[0];

  // get the data
  alert(objSelectedCellText.data);
 }
 
 // Sets the selected index to which ever row that has been selected via a mouse over event
 function SetSelectIndex(nIndex)
    {
     var objTable = document.getElementById("recordTab1");
  
  if (objTable)
  {
   var nMaxRows = getMaxRowsInTable();
 
   
   if (gnSelectedIndex >= nMaxRows)
   {
    var objTR = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[nMaxRows-1];
   }
   else
   {
    var objTR = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[gnSelectedIndex];
   }
        
   objTR.style.background="#deebde";
 
      gnSelectedIndex = nIndex;   
   gnCurrentTableRowCellValue = nIndex;
  }
    }
    
    // function that works out the maximum number of rows returned currently in the table of stock lists
    function getMaxRowsInTable()
    {
     
     var objTable = document.getElementById("recordTab1");
  
  if (objTable)
  { 
   var nLocalIndex = 0;
   var obj = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[nLocalIndex];
  
   while(obj != undefined)
   {
    nLocalIndex++;
    obj = objTable.getElementsByTagName("tr")[nLocalIndex];
   }
   
   return nLocalIndex;
     }
     else
     {
      return 0;
     }
    }
 
 // End of Stock lookup section
 ///////////////////////
</script>
<style type="text/css">
td.content_TC_td_a {
 font-size: x-small;
 font-weight: bold;
 font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
</style>
<input type="text" id="txtStockQuote" size="30" style="display:none" onkeyup="showResult();" />
<div id="livesearch" class="xStockLookup" style="width:480px;background-color:#deebde;display:none;position:absolute;left:363px;top:1092px;"></div>

Simple Adaptation of Flyout Code that uses a List's item as its content for the flyout

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Some SharePoint 2010 css that just baffles me

Whilst trying to apply custom .css styles to a SharePoint 2010 site with a company colour scheme.  When it came to highlighting the current on hover list item.  See picture below.

I just could not find out how to fix the issue where sometimes it appears it is 1px height out therefore the inner cell overlaps the border that is governing the row as shown in the image above.  As you can see it works on some rows but not others as the row height is not constant.

I found the css class was

td.ms-vb-title div.s4-ctx:hover
{
border-color:transparent!important;
background-color:#E7EBD6!important;
}

The background colour and border colour was set accordingly.

The height property would govern the cell.  But setting it to any height would mean it would sometimes fit in some cells but not others.  Setting it to height:auto did not work either.  Umm. 

A rather cop out way was to turn the div.s4-ctx:hover or div.s4-ctx, s4-ctx-show height to 0px.

This meant the highlight shade won't show since the div been set to 0px height, only allowing the onmouseover arrow image to show. 

Creating a copy of your master page that suppresses left menu / quicklaunch

While trying to simply create a SharePoint 2010 master page for a site collection where they simply don't need the quick launch left menus.  This was a great simple guide on how to achieve this.

http://sharepointpromag.com/sharepoint/four-ways-add-or-remove-quick-launch-menu-control

The 4 options were all great.

However, what I ended up doing was a combination of Option 1 and 2.  Which could really be documented as an option 5 approach.

In the site, I disabled the quick launch (Option 1).  This result in it not showing but the area to the left is still a blank block of space.

Then I simply created a copy of the master page that I have been using and called it MyMaster_ForNoLeftMenu

I then also copied our main css file and added 

/* Suppress Left Menu space after turn off Quick Navigation and Tree view at site level settings*/
#s4-leftpanel {
  display:none;
}
.s4-ca {
  margin-left:0px!important;
}

Saved it as myCssNoLeftMenu.css in the Style Library library folder.

In the master page I simply changed the reference to the css registration to the css file with the left hide above

 <SharePoint:CSSRegistration name="/Style Library/css/myCssNoLeftMenu.css" after="corev4.css" runat="server"/>

Now to control this, simply set the site's master page to MyMaster_ForNoLeftMenu after disabling the need to show the quick launch in the site settings. 

Annoying File Opening issue with SharePoint Designer 2010

Really annoying feature or bug with SharePoint Designer 2010.  

Sometimes files not refreshing properly and not loading the latest copy saved in SharePoint and also displaying erroneous checked out/in status.

Loads of other people also found the same problem eg here

http://www.tompuleo.com/2009/04/sharepoint-designer-says-i-have-file.html

Found that even clearing the cache folders did not work.

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache

Win 7 

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache

Check in and Check out status still not working.  Latest saved file loads from SharePoint however, it seems like a Control->F5 should also be done by navigating to the folder of where the file is sitting in Designer 2010's navigation node.  At least the latest saved file seems to load.

Made sure all SharePoint Designer settings turned on the Site Collection Admin section.

But the problem does not seem to happen when it was installed on the Server that the Test SharePoint farm was sitting on... ummm

Tried adding SP2 for Designer 2010 to see whether it fixes it.  But still to no avail.  Check in and check out status still erroneous.

Clearing very large libraries the slow and hard way, but it works and site still accessible

Here is another gotcha that recently Konged us big time.

We had to delete a library that had nearly 90000 items.  To clear it from the 2nd layer recycle bin, it proved to be impossible partly because it always timed out because in our live WFE server, the IIS pool was also set to recycle frequently in order to clear the memory.

Therefore, the alternative was to restore the library.  Then in the site content manager, clear 1000 items at a time.  Then clear the recycle bin and delete 200 at a time.  Well it works and some repetitive stress syndrome started to take shape after a whole weekend spent repeating this admin task.  

NB..  Clearing the items like this at least does not result in the site being down because of the large transactional lock that happens during a big library clearance.  

Flyouts on List Items showing small details page

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