R – Display SharePoint lookup field on publishing website

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A page within our MOSS publishing website has a property which is a lookup field.

I only want the selected text to be displayed when you view the page not in edit mode, but when I use the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.LookupField it generates a hyperlink to the SharePoint list item (obviously bad).

Is there a way around this, short of creating my own lookup field control?

Best Answer

You can use a jQuery hack

Using JQuery to remove Linked List Items hyperlinks.

<script type="text/javascript" src="/jquery-1.3.1.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
   $('a[href*="RootFolder=*"]').each(
      function(index) {
         var link = $(this);
         $(this).after("<span>" + link.text() + "</span>");
         $(this).remove();
      });
});
</script>

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SharePoint/MOSS – Deleting other people’s un-checked-in items from a list

Abs's answer lead us gave us the hint - hey how does the ManageCheckedOutFiles page see the files not yet checked-in by other users?

go to ~layouts/ManageCheckedOutFiles.aspx
inherits from Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.ManageCheckedOutFilesPage
reflector 12\CONFIG\BIN\Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.dll
in protected void PrepareContent() we read the key lines:
IList checkedOutFiles = this.CurrentList.CheckedOutFiles;

so back in our code

SPDocumentLibrary doclib = PublishingWeb.PagesList as SPDocumentLibrary;
foreach(var checkedoutfile in doclib.CheckedOutFiles)
{
    checkedoutfile.TakeOverCheckOut();
    var file = doclib.GetItemById(checkedoutfile.ListItemId);
    file.CheckIn();
}

Thanks everyone :-)

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In the case that you are unable to put the users into AD, a custom field control will give you the ability to include the custom rendering (jquery) you require as well as the ability to enter the data as "normal" text.

The custom field, once defined "just works" wherever you need to display the field.

Given you are thinking of using JQuery, the issue then becomes one of making sure the jquery library is correctly linked whenever you need to us a field of this type.

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