R – SharePoint: Only render a PublishingWebControl field when content is present

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I have a publishing site page layout which allows untrained staff to enter news stories into a publishing site on our intranet. The Layout contains several fields which are only required occasionally and when they lack content they leave a big hole in the page design.

Is there anyway to render these fields only when they contain content?

Thanks in advance.

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Yes - see this blog post from Andrew Connell. It walks you through writing a custom control to do this.

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R – SharePoint > Custom Page-Library & PageLayout

I would like to comment on one thing. Looks like IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="TRUE" is not working properly refer to this link, may be reverting the value to FALSE should help.

<File Url="CustomPage.aspx" Type="GhostableInLibrary" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="TRUE" >

R – Sharepoint Site Template: How to set the default Site Template

How did you install the site template, did you use stsadm.exe -o addtemplate? I have created site templates this week, and to use them, I ran stsadm. When I create a new subsite, my site template appears in the list.

As a plan B, you could use stsadm.exe -o createwebsite, passing it the name of the site template. To get the name of the template, use stsadm.exe -o enumtemplates. This will list all the site templates available. You should see your custom template appear, with a name like "GLOBAL#5" or something like that.

Use that "GLOBAL#5" name in the params for createwebsite.

Hope this helps.

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