R – Sharepoint 2007 – Finding out where a view is used

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I'm a MOSS 2007 newbie and am trying to find out where a view is used.

I have a larger list and i want to have two different views into that list. I've inherited the site collection, and currently there are three views, with two of them named almost identically. Now i'd like to find out if i can safely remove one of those views.

So the question is: Is there a way to find out all references to a view?

I'll provide additional information gladly!

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"First part of my problem is that i'd like to find out which view this web part is using." "Second part is that i have a set of views made from a list, and i should find out if some web part is using some of those views"

A Web Part does not use a view directly. The current view of the web part is based upon a view, but if you change or delete the view, the web part still displays your list/library as before. Thus, if you delete your views, all web parts will still continue to function.

What you should probably do is compare your views (which fields are displayed, filtering, sorting, grouping, etc.) with each other and also with the view inside your web part. That way, you'll know which view was used before.

What could happen is that you break links to your view page. This is, if on some other page there is a direct link to your view.

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The trick is to only add columns using an xml schema instead of using the front end. Usually I would do this using a solution/feature, containing all of the field definitions and content types.

As you already have the content types added, you may need to use a tool like SharePoint manager to look at the schema xml and introduce a new one. This gives more control of the exact definition for any fields.

There can never be two fields with the same internal name. We have had issue when fields have been defined on the site using the /_layouts/settings.aspx and also at the list level. As far as I can tell, when a site restores, it tries to add any fields from the list or subsite level into the base site (alert: opinionin formed only by looking at log errors and trial and error rather than actual facts) and this is where it seems to fail. Making sure that all the fields are defined in a consistent way using the Schema xml (easiest to do with a feature defining the content types) may help iron out the issues. I.e. all fields of the same "name" have the same guid name etc in all sites.

Note: We have also had issue with cross site queries after manually adding fields. The query code has some bugs (I believe it is on the MS stack to be fixed) that mean it relies on fields being defined in a certain order on the underlying tables.

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The answer is No... but you can create one.

Cracking open a website using SharePoint Manager (which rocks) you can see the definition of the "IssueID" column and the one that is used to display the "ID(link to item)" I include the schema xml from my site below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Field ID="{de57307b-e69a-4cf9-b3a9-b6a728ecf773}" Sealed="TRUE" ReadOnly="TRUE" Name="IssueID" Type="Computed" DisplayName="Issue ID" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3" StaticName="IssueID" FromBaseType="TRUE">
  <FieldRefs>
    <FieldRef Name="ID" />
  </FieldRefs>
  <DisplayPattern>
    <Column Name="ID" />
  </DisplayPattern>
</Field>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Field ID="{03f89857-27c9-4b58-aaab-620647deda9b}" ReadOnly="TRUE" Type="Computed" Name="LinkIssueIDNoMenu" DisplayName="Issue ID" Dir="" DisplayNameSrcField="IssueID" AuthoringInfo="(linked to item)" SourceID="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/v3" StaticName="LinkIssueIDNoMenu">
  <FieldRefs>
    <FieldRef Name="ID" />
  </FieldRefs>
  <DisplayPattern>
    <HTML><![CDATA[<a  href="]]></HTML>
    <URL />
    <HTML><![CDATA[" ONCLICK="GoToLink(this);return false;" target="_self">]]></HTML>
    <Column HTMLEncode="TRUE" Name="ID" />
    <HTML><![CDATA[</a>]]></HTML>
  </DisplayPattern>
</Field>

Change the GUIDs and you can add these columns to a custom list, they will display in the manner you require. I would recommend creating a feature for the columns (maybe use STSDev) and releasing via a solution to any thing other than a dev site.

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