{"id":1800,"date":"2015-11-13T10:57:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T10:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2020-03-25T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T16:31:58","slug":"add-ecb-to-view-columns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartroberts.net\/index.php\/2015\/11\/13\/add-ecb-to-view-columns\/","title":{"rendered":"Add ECB to View Columns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some code to add the ECB menu to the specified columns of a view:<\/p>\n\n

\npublic void SetEcbColumnOnView(SPView view, List internalNames)\n{\n    if (view == null)\n        throw new ArgumentNullException("view");\n\n    const string ListItemMenu = "ListItemMenu";\n    const string ViewFields = "ViewFields";\n    const string AttributeName = "Name";\n\n    XElement root = XElement.Parse(view.GetViewXml());\n\n    \/\/ Get all columns that use the ECB menu\n    IEnumerable fields = from el in root.Elements(ViewFields).DescendantNodes().OfType()\n                                    where el.Attribute(ListItemMenu) != null\n                                    select el;\n\n    \/\/ Remove the ECB Menu from all columns that currently use it.\n    foreach (XElement el in fields)\n    {\n        el.Attributes(ListItemMenu).Remove();\n    }\n\n    if (internalNames.Count > 0)\n    {\n        \/\/Get the field specified in the parameters\n        fields = from el in root.Elements(ViewFields).DescendantNodes().OfType()\n                    let nameAttribute = el.Attribute(AttributeName)\n                    where nameAttribute != null && internalNames.Any(v => v.Equals(nameAttribute.Value))\n                    select el;\n\n        \/\/ Add the attribute to the columns to show the ECB menu\n        foreach (XElement el in fields)\n        {\n            Console.WriteLine(el);\n            var attribute = new XAttribute(ListItemMenu, bool.TrueString);\n            el.Add(attribute);\n        }\n    }\n\n    \/\/ Update the view\n    string viewXml = root.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);\n    view.SetViewXml(viewXml);\n    view.Update();\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Code should be pretty self explanatory, happy coding! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some code to add the ECB menu to the specified columns of a view: Code should be pretty self explanatory, happy coding! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,81],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharepoint","tag-ecb","tag-sharepoint"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t