Web Parts!

1. Web Parts! SharePoint + PowerShell User Group August 17, 2012

2. Agenda Hello! Group Logistics (Lync / website / register / email / twitter) Web Parts! Useful Scripts Next meeting

3. Hello! Raymond Mitchell • SharePoint Consultant • http://www.Rackspace.com • Author • Dad • Information Worker Kid • http://www.iwkid.com • SharePoSHing since 2008

4. What about you?

5. Web Parts + PowerShell Web Part Basics Review Show all web parts in the gallery SPLimitedWebPartManager Different Web Part Classes Adding a Web Part Editing/Saving properties of a Web Part Searching for Web Parts (closed/by type) Export Web Parts Web Part Page Web Service

6. Show all web parts in the gallery • Open Web Part Gallery in browser, show populate option • Reflector: Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.NewDwp • $web = Get-SPWeb http://localhost$safe = [Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SharePointHandler]::GetSafeControls($web)$safe | % { $_.FullName; }

7. SPLimitedWebPartManager SPWeb.GetLimitedWebPartManager Scope – Shared or User FT Title, WebBrowsableObject

8. Common Web Part Classes Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.XsltListViewWebPart Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ContentEditorWebPart Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ImageWebPart Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SimpleFormWebPart Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.MediaWebPart Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls.ContentByQueryWebPart

9. New Web Part Page $web = Get-SPWeb http://localhost $pages = $web.Lists["Site Pages"] $new = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SPUtility]::CreateNewWikiPage($pages, "SitePages/SharePoSH.aspx")

10. New XSLT List View Web Part $web = Get-SPWeb http://localhost $pages = $web.Lists["Site Pages"] $wp = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.XsltListViewWebPart $wp.ListId = $pages.ID $wp.ViewGuid = $pages.DefaultView.ID $mgr = $web.GetLimitedWebPartManager("/SitePages/SharePoSH.aspx", "Shared") $mgr.AddWebPart($wp, 0, 0)

11. New Form Part $web = Get-SPWeb http://localhost $mgr = $web.GetLimitedWebPartManager("/SitePages/SharePoSH.aspx", "Shared") $fwp = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.SimpleFormWebPart $fwp.Content = "<b>Just testing a form</b>"

12. New CEWP $web = Get-SPWeb http://localhost $mgr = $web.GetLimitedWebPartManager("/SitePages/SharePoSH.aspx", "Shared") $cewp = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ContentEditorWebPart $xml = New-Object -TypeName xml $xmlContent = $xml.CreateElement("Content") $xmlContent.InnerText = "<b>Test!</b>" $cewp.Content = $xmlContent $mgr.AddWebPart($cewp, 0, 0)

13. Find Web Parts $web = Get-SPWeb http://localhost $mgr = $web.GetLimitedWebPartManager("/SitePages/SharePoSH.aspx", "Shared") $mgr.WebParts | ? { $_.IsClosed -eq $true } | ft title, WebBrowsableObject $mgr.WebParts | ? { $_.WebBrowsableObject.ToString().Contains("Form") } | ft title, WebBrowsableObject

14. Export Web Part $wp = $mgr.WebParts[0] $sw = New-Object System.IO.StringWriter $xw = [System.xml.XmlWriter]::Create($sw) $mgr.ExportWebPart($wp, $xw) $xw.Close() $sw.Close() $sw.ToString()

15. Web Services http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms774747(v=office.12) $proxy = New-WebServiceProxy http://localhost/_vti_bin/WebPartPages.asmx $proxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultCredentials $proxy.GetWebPartPage("/SitePages/SharePoSH.aspx", "Version3")

16. YOUR scripts!

17. Next Meeting • Friday, September 14th • Topics: • Lists & views • Publishing • IIS / web.config

18. Resources • PowerShell + SharePoint forum at PowerShell.org: • http://powershell.org/discuss/viewforum.php?f=12