Have you ever had the problem using SharePoint 2007 that when you create small webpart zones that the edit button disappeared because the title of the webpart was to long? I ran into this problem at my current project and instead of shortening down the titles i came up with the idea of changing the position of the edit button to be on the left of the title. when the button is on the left and the title is on the right the title will be trimmed automatically since the webpart zones have a fixed length.

In your server side code it’s really hard to change these kinds of things because this is standard SharePoint functionality and you can’t change it server side. So the solution is to fix it using javascript and to make that easier I’m using JQuery.

first I’ll show you the results below and then how I did it using a small JQuery script.

before:

after:

Below is the JQuery script to change the position of the edit menu to the left. the only thing you have to do is save this code to a js file, include the reference to the js file and a reference to the JQuery library js file on your masterpage and you’re done.

   1: $(document).ready(function() {

   2:     SPEditMenuFix();

   3: });

   4:  

   5: function SPEditMenuFix() {

   6:     $(".ms-WPHeader").each(function() {

   7:         var first = $(this).children("td:first").clone(true);

   8:         var last = $(this).children("td:last").clone(true);

   9:         $(this).children("td:first").replaceWith(last);

  10:         $(this).children("td:last").replaceWith(first);

  11:     });

  12: }

Enjoy!

Geert van der Cruijsen

This week i ran into a problem after deploying a feature in SharePoint. I ran the stdadm command to install and activate a feature, the command returned without any errors so i thought everything was ok. When i tried to open up SharePoint in the browser all the pages gave a "403 forbidden" error

My first thoughts where that there was something wrong with the feature but this couldn't be the case because this feature was installed on multiple envoirments and they were all working ok.

After some research i found out that SharePoint didnt have enough rights in the feature directory in "program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\templates\features\$feature name dir"

This error can occur when you manually create a directory in the "features" directory of SharePoint. You can easily fix it by right clicking the folder, click properties, security and then Advanced. On the permissions tab delete the "Uninhereted permissions from the folder". Another option is to manually give the right users the rights to the directory.

Geert van der Cruijsen