Parameterize your page url to access SharePoint functionality
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Webpart maintenance page
Some people think they’re removing a webparts by clicking on ‘x’, actually the webpart is closed and stille exists (invisible) on the page. With the SharePoint webparts maintenance page you can close, remove or delete (multiple) webparts on a page. This is very handy page specially when your well written SharePoint webpart causes an error so the whole page can’t be displayed. Here is the solution to remove the blocking webpart, add the following to your page url: ?contents=1
Acces the SharePoint ToolPanes
Is it possible to edit forms pages like AllItems.aspx, DispForm.aspx EditForm.aspx …? Yes, add the following to you’re Forms page url ?ToolPaneView=2, now you can edit existing webparts or add new webparts, a content editor webpart with a disclaimer text for example. With ?ToolPaneView=3 you can search for webparts and with ?ToolPaneView=5 you can upload you’re custom webpart.