View Element (Site)

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Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010

Used within a site definition to specify a list view for a page within a module.

<View
  AggregateView = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  BaseViewID = "Integer"
  DefaultView = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  DisplayName = "Text"
  FailIfEmpty = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  FileDialog = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  FPModified = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  FreeForm = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  Hidden = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  List = "Integer" } "Text"
  Name = "Text"
  OrderedView = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  PageType = "Text"
  Path = "Text"
  ReadOnly = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  RecurrenceRowset = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  RowLimit = "Integer"
  Scope = "Text"
  ShowHeaderUI = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  Threaded = "TRUE" | "FALSE"
  Type = "HTML" | "Chart" | "Pivot"
  Url = "URL"
  WebPartOrder = "Integer"
  WebPartZoneID = "Text">
</View>

Attributes

Attribute

Description

AggregateView

Optional Boolean. TRUE to specify that the view is a Merge Forms view used in an XML Form library. By default, an XML Form library is provisioned with a Merge Forms view that is initially hidden. When an XML editor is used to publish an XML Form Properties (XFP) file to the Forms directory of the library along with a template used by the editor, the AggregateView attribute identifies the Merge Forms view, which can be made visible or hidden depending on whether the list template or definition for the library supports data merging.

BaseViewID

Optional Integer. Specifies the ID of the base view.

DefaultView

Optional Boolean. TRUE to specify that the view is the default view.

DisplayName

Optional Text. Specifies the name of the view that is displayed on the Quick Launch bar.

FailIfEmpty

Optional Boolean. If the view returns no items, TRUE to return a blank page and an HTTP error code instead of rendering the ViewEmpty element. Used for programmatic manipulation of views from a client application, preventing the client application from having to parse a document to discover whether the view is empty.

FileDialog

Optional Boolean. TRUE to specify that the view is displayed in file dialog boxes for applications used within the context of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, which parse the output HTML to determine the contents of the list.

FPModified

Optional Boolean. TRUE if the view has been altered through editing in a Web page editor, and the view is no longer customizable by the SharePoint Foundation user interface (UI).

FreeForm

Optional Boolean. TRUE to specify alternate field formatting for rendering certain field types. In particular, this affects the alignment of number columns, which is particularly useful in custom nontabular view types.

Hidden

Optional Boolean. TRUE to hide the view.

List

Optional Integer or Text. Specifies the type of list. This value can be either the ID of the template for a list (an integer), or the URL to a list provisioned in the site (a string). Best practice is to use Text, because Integer might not be specific enough (e.g., if there are two announcements lists in the site and you specify List=104).

Name

Optional Text. The name given to the view (used to select a different named view in the UI as well as to refer to a named view in specifying a filter for a Lookup field).

OrderedView

Optional Boolean. TRUE to specify that the view is ordered.

PageType

Optional Text. Specifies the type of form in which the view is used. Possible values include the following:

  • DEFAULTVIEW   Default view.

  • DIALOGVIEW   File dialog box view.

  • DISPLAYFORM   Display form for list items.

  • DISPLAYFORMDIALOG   Display form for a file dialog box.

  • EDITFORM   Edit form for list items.

  • EDITFORMDIALOG   Edit form for a file dialog box.

  • INVALID   Not used.

  • MAXITEMS   Not used.

  • NEWFORM   New form for list items.

  • NEWFORMDIALOG   New form for a file dialog box.

  • NORMALVIEW   Normal view.

  • SOLUTIONFORM   Solution form.

  • VIEW   View, including both default view and normal view.

Path

Optional Text. Specifies the file name for the view.

ReadOnly

Optional Boolean. TRUE to make the view read-only.

RecurrenceRowset

Optional Boolean. TRUE to expand recurring events in the view and display each instance of each recurring event. The default value is FALSE.

RowLimit

Optional Integer. Applies to the HTML view type only. Specifies the maximum number of rows to render on any one page. When the row limit is exceeded, the Next and Previous buttons on the page allow for viewing other parts of the returned recordset.

If RowLimit is not specified, the default number of Rows returned is 50. If "None" is specified for the view type, all the rows of the recordset are returned in one view.

When a view is rendered, the render variables ViewHasNext and ViewHasPrev are set to TRUE or FALSE, based on whether the current view has reached the row limit from the dataset. These variables can be used in successive page definitions to render Next and Previous buttons on the page, as in the following example:

<Switch>
  <Expr><GetVar Name=”ViewHasPrev”/></Expr>
  <Case Value=”TRUE”>
    <![CDATA[...Previous button defined here... ]]>
  </Case>
</Switch>

The variables NextPageURL and PrevPageURL are also set to nonblank values when there is forward or backward paging content from the current display. These variables can be used by constructing the Next and Previous buttons to have the correct URL for accessing the next page of content.

Scope

Optional Text. Specifies the recursive scope for a view of a document library. Possible values include the following:

  • FilesOnly—Show only the files of a specific folder.

  • Recursive—Show all files of all folders.

  • RecursiveAll—Show all files and all subfolders of all folders.

If this attribute is not set, the view displays only the files and subfolders of a specific folder. The value of this attribute corresponds to the Scope property of the SPView class.

ShowHeaderUI

Optional Boolean. FALSE to render all FieldRef elements used in the header display mode without decorating the UI with HTML. In other words, when this mode is set, the UI does not provide sorting and filtering as hyperlinks in the column header. The default value is TRUE.

Threaded

Optional Boolean. TRUE to apply inner grouping in the view. A threaded view is constructed based on the built-in threading column (assumed to exist for the list). The view is sorted on this field as the secondary sort. If other columns in the view are specified as sorted or grouped, those are applied before the threading column sort order. As a result, all discussions grouped by a topic can be collected together, and the message threading can be displayed beneath the collection.

When TRUE, the RowLimit element has a different meaning when used on a threaded discussion board list view. Instead of specifying the number of items to return, it specifies the number of discussion threads to return, where a thread could consist of one or more items. In addition to having the Threaded attribute set to TRUE, a threaded view must be sorted by the thread ID in order for this row limit behavior to take effect.

Type

Optional Text. Specifies the rendering type of the view. The type is the common enumerated HTML view and can be set to HTML, Chart, Pivot, GANTT, or CALENDAR.

Url

Optional URL. Specifies the URL for the view.

WebPartOrder

Optional Integer. Specifies the vertical positioning of the Web Part within a zone.

WebPartZoneID

Optional Text. Specifies the zone for the Web Part.

Child Elements

Element

BinarySerializedWebPart

Parent Elements

File

Occurrences

Minimum: 0

Maximum: Unbounded

Remarks

See Module Element (Site) for an example that uses the View element.