Friday, January 30, 2009

SharePoint Open a closed Web Part

When a web part is closed using the X, the web part is still loaded on the page, it is just not displayed. Resources are allocated that are never used, so she was right in asking the question.

Here are the steps to put a web part back on a page:

  1. Site Actions -> Edit Page
  2. Click Add a Web Part
  3. Click Advanced Web Part gallery and options
  4. Click Closed Web Parts
  5. Drag closed web part onto the page


Friday, January 16, 2009

Configure RTE in Sitecore 6

Switch to the Master Database.

Find the common template you use for your pages inside of the Template Manager. I use one just called "Page" that inherits from the General\BaseTemplate template. The BaseTemplate template has a field called Body which is a RTE field. Find that field of the BaseTemplate and then paste one of the following lines into the source field. 

I used the rich text full because I want my editors to have the full RTE Toolbar and all the buttons available to them. But you could also use any of the following. 


/sitecore/system/settings/html editor profiles/rich text default
/sitecore/system/settings/html editor profiles/rich text full
/sitecore/system/settings/html editor profiles/rich text ide
/sitecore/system/settings/html editor profiles/rich text medium

Let me know if you have questions, it took me awhile to figure this out, so I may be able to help you if you can't get it working.