I've had several clients now that really hate the default look and feel of the basic Sharepoint page. To the point that they have me strip out everything, and reconfigure just a few zones and whatnot....
My current client even wanted me to remove the “Modify Shared Page” link. This left me with an interesting question.... If I remove that tag, how can I add web parts easily? Sure I can open the page in Frontpage, but we wanted a simpler approach. “Have your cake and eat it too“ comes to mind....
Is this even possible, some might wonder? Well it is, via querystring options on the command line:
| Add Web Parts/Browse |
|
ToolPaneView=2 |
| Add Web Parts/Search |
|
ToolPaneView=3 |
| Edit Mode |
|
mode=edit |
| View Mode |
|
mode=view |
| Shared Mode |
|
PageView=Shared |
| Personal Mode |
|
PageView=Personal |
So for example, say you wanted to edit the Shared view of the default page:
default.aspx?mode=edit&PageView=Shared
Say you wanted to Browse web parts and add them to your Personal view:
default.aspx?ToolPaneView=2&PageView=Personal
You can mix and match, and the order of the options do not matter....
Hope this helps
-Andy