How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Mark — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:42:31 GMT

Thanks for the tip. My team have started evaluating MOSS as a WCM platform and we've run into issues re accessibility and poor markup (tables being used instead of CSS, spacers, etc) when using the standard controls so this technique will come in very handy. Do you know if there are plans to provide web standards-friendly controls in future (e.g. via service pack or separate download)?

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:51:00 GMT

Hi Mark,

the same question often came up with CMS 2002 and the anwer was usually that this should be addressed with custom placeholder controls.

So I would not expect it. But if enough requirements from customers arrive through service requests it might be that this question will be evaluated again for a service pack in the future.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Mark — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:44:01 GMT

Not the answer I wanted to hear but thanks for replying all the same :-)

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Iskander — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:44:33 GMT

Oen question on RichImageFields: Is it possible to have a custom page layout with multiple PageImages on it?? I've tried many times, today, but couldn't get it to work.

FieldName was set to PublishingPageImage, ID was set to something sifferent for each instance.

Page 'renders' correctly in Sharepoint Designer, and when edititing the page in Sharepoint I get to see the placeholders and I can set an image to it, but When I save, all Image-fields show the exect same image, regardless of how I set them...

Any thoughts on this?

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Stefan_Gossner — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:00:25 GMT

Hi Iskander,

first you need to create a content type to be used by your page layout. The page layout is just the rendering window for the content type. For each field control you add you need to have an individual column in the content type.

Then bind the different field controls to the different columns.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Anabhra — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:58:32 GMT

Hi Stefan,

My biggest issue with controls are the web parts that come out of the box or even custom built ones. The web part is wrapped with table tags. Has anyone tried css adapters for web parts?

thanks,

anabhra

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Sed Taha — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:21:43 GMT

i have a question.

i want to repalce my own modified Datetime control instead of sharepoint original datetime control. is it possible?

Regards,

Sed Taha

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Stefan_Gossner — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:48:54 GMT

Hi Sed,

if this is on a page layout you can do this.

Best would be to derive your control from the original one.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Ed — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:19:23 GMT

Can you show an example of this being used in an aspx page?

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:44:56 GMT

Hi Ed,

you can only use this in a page layout - like the original field controls comming with MOSS.

You have to open the page layout using SharePoint Designer and then you have to replace the original RichImageField control with the CorrectedRichImageField in Html View.

Also ensure to register the namespace of your DLL and class at the top.

Have a look in the SDK for details.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Stefan2 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:51:35 GMT

Does it mather what namespace you use? Do it have to end with .SharePoint.WebControls?

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:56:16 GMT

The namespace can be different.

Just ensure that you add the correct namespace as a reference in your page layout.

Publishing Images are shown in encoded Html/text instead of showing the image - temporary solution

SharePoint Architecture & Development — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:35:22 GMT

We came across a random issue lately where a publishing image (RichImageField) does not render correctly

re: How To: overcome glitches with the standard field controls shipped with MOSS 2007

Lori Li — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:44:15 GMT

Thanks.

And i use RenderFieldForDisplay for my custom render.

DisplayPattern is hard to use for me.