Wednesday, July 27, 2005

How to show file extensions in a SharePoint document library

Nice tip from Fabian Moritz - how to show file extensions in a SharePoint document library (Unfortunately... it took me a while to understand "Dateierweiterungen" although Dutch and German are pretty similar) - here's a quick translation. There are actually 2 ways to show file extensions in a SharePoint document library:
  • Convert the document library listviewwebpart to a XSLT dataview - Open the documentlibrary with FrontPage, rightclick and convert to dataview. Modify the XSLT to add <xsl:value-of select="@File_x0020_Type"/>

  • Modify the display pattern in ONET.XML - add <HTML><![CDATA[.]]></HTML><Field HTMLEncode="FALSE" Name="File_x0020_Type"/> before <HTML><![CDATA[</A>]]></HTML><IfNew Name="Created_x0020_Date"> . After making a change to ONET.XML you have to do IISRESET.



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    3 comments:

    1. Anonymous3:40 PM

      Do you have a solution for SharePoint 2007 to show file extensions in document libraries?

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    2. Anonymous9:11 PM

      same solution for 2007. The onet.xml file located at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL\XML\ONET.XML
      needs to be updated.

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    3. Anonymous3:42 PM

      ONET.xml modification for sharepoint 2010 does not seem to work.. Is there another way to apply it for the farm?

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