Hide a field inherited by the content type in a custom list definition

The requirement is to create new content type that inherits from a Parent content type. I also created custom document library definition that uses the newly created content type.
There are some fields that are inherited from the parent type that I would like "NOT TO" show in the edit/display form in the libraries created based on the new list definition.
How can I achieve this? In the list definition, I added ShowInEditForm="FALSE" and ShowInDisplayForm="FALSE" ShowInViewForm="FALSE".
But these fields won't hide and it still shows up when a new document is uploaded. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

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Description
Changing the Site URL of a Sharepoint site changes the content type order of all lists that
* contain folder content types
* and have a custom content type order
* where a folder content type is the first content type in order.
Reproducible behaviour
1. Create a Team Site in Sharepoint
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3. Go to List Settings
4. The Content Type order is by default
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5. Change the Content Type Order to
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11. Here, the Content Type order still is
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Hi Joachim,
You are not missing something or doing something wrong. i Hope :). This behavior is reproductible.
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Can I add Custom Content Type created programmatically to Custom List Definition?

I have created Custom content type programmatically in the Feature Receiver. Followed by this have another feature which creates List Template. I want to add the custom content type to the list template.
Using VS 2012, I added the custom content type to the list definition. The Schema.xml for the list definition looks as below:
<ContentTypes>
<ContentTypeRef ID="0x010100D7D9F4B1F4A9684BB44389571024B2EC00C393BB21B8AD7B41B62A87DF0501504D" />
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ID was automatically added by the VS tool.
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How can I achieve this? Any help is appreciated.

Hi,
Please add EnableContentTypes="TRUE" in the <List > tag.
The following materials would be helpful:
How to add custom content type to a custom list
http://innersharepoint.blogspot.de/2009/10/how-to-add-custom-content-type-to.html
SharePoint Custom List Definition with Content Type
https://achrafsp.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/sharepoint-list-definition-with-content-type/
Create a Custom SharePoint List Definition
http://www.mssharepointtips.com/tip.asp?id=1188
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How to know whether the Content Type at Library level is Inheriting Parent Content type or not Using Powershell?

Hi,
How to know whether the Content Type at Library level is Inheriting Parent Content type or not using Powershell?
Is there any property for that? Or Do I need to compare the Content type Id's at Site collection level and Library level?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
AA.

Hi Ashok,
For a content type, there is an attribute called Inherits, the value of this attribute determines whether the content type inherits fields from its parent content type when it is created.
If Inherits is TRUE, the child content type inherits all fields that are in the parent, including fields that users have added.
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More information, please refer to the link:
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I lost the ability to order and hide site columns if i use custom content type with a custom Create Form

I have a team site collection and I want to add a new App of type Issue Tracking list. so I did the following:-
From the site collection I created a new App of type issue tracking.
Then from the site collection I created a new Content type named “CustomIssue” which has its parent as “Issue” content type.
I went to the Issue tracking list and I changed the default content type from Issue , to the new “CustomeIssue” content type.
I open the site collection using SP designer and I created a new Create form for my Issue tracking list based on the "CustomIssue" content type and I select to have the Create form as the default form when creating an item.
Everything till this point worked well. But when I open the “customIssue” content type , and I re-order the columns and I hide some columns, this was not reflected inside the custom Create form …
although when using the default content type and the default create form you can control the order of the fields and to specify if certain fields hold be hidden inside the Create form.. so can anyone advice on this please?

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you lost the ability to order and hide site columns if i use custom content type with a custom Create Form.
I try to reproduce the issue, the result is the same as yours.
As a workaround, if I modify the custom content type form the site setting, and then change the NewForm as the default form, it will change the column orders.
However, if I use the new created form as the default form, it will remain the original orders.
I recommend that you modify the custom content type form the site setting, and then reset the NewForm as the default form.
The result is as below:
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Visual Studio 2013 deploying incorrectly the content types of a document library

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I created a SharePoint farm solution in VS 2013. I add four content types (say, C1, C2, C3, C4, based on the Document content type) and I create a couple of document libraries (say, L1, L2). Now I add C1 and C2 to L1, and add C3 and C4 to L2.
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Hi Sohel, thanks for your reply.
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Sharepoint error - Search Issue - The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (application/soap+msbin1).

i see this error everywhere - In ULS logs, on site. On the site > Site settings > search keywords; I see this -
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Hi IMSunny,
It seems you have solved this issue based on your another post.
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Error consuming Web service - content type text/xml;charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding

Hi all,
We are trying to interact with Documentum server through DFS exposed WCF which communicates through port 9443 and we are provided with documentum issued Public Key certificates. We have successfully imported the certificates in client machine and configured
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<bindings>
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name="ObjectServicePortBinding1">
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<transport
clientCredentialType="None"
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proxyCredentialType="None"
realm=""
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<message
clientCredentialType="Certificate"
algorithmSuite="Default"
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serviceClient = new
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is
WSHttpBinding)
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wsBinding = serviceClient.Endpoint.Binding as
WSHttpBinding;
wsBinding.MessageEncoding =
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proxyCredentialType="None"
realm=""
/>
<message
clientCredentialType="Certificate"
algorithmSuite="Default"
/>
</security>
</binding>
<binding
name="QueryServicePortBinding">
<security
mode="Transport">
<transport
clientCredentialType="
Certificate"
proxyCredentialType="None"
realm=""
/>
<message
clientCredentialType="Certificate"
algorithmSuite="Default"
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</binding>
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</bindings>
We are getting another error message,
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Hi Dhanasegaran,
As per your case, the corresponding details which may guide you to resolve this issue:
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<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="metadataAndDebugEnabled">
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/>
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I have the same issue on Windows 7 machine. The service works fine using a SoapUI client but a .Net client faisl to get a response.
Hi,
I have a WCF service which works perfectly when using SoapUI but throws error in my .Net client.
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The content type of the response message does not match the content type of the binding

I have written an ASP.Net web service which returns english,chinese and portuguese data. Everything seemed working fine until the method retunred only english data. The moment it returns english, chinese and portuguese data I get the error:
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a custom encoder, be sure that the IsContentTypeSupported method is implemented properly. The first 1024 bytes of the response were:
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How to chek the content type thru java script !!

Hii Guys ,one more prb,
I need to develop a file uploading utility in struts to upload ZIP files(only ZIP), and i sucseeded to do it using the commons.fileupload which comes along with the WSAD5.1(examples), but the prb is i need to chek for the MIME type and need to reject if its not a zip file, if i do this in actionclass, its waiting till the uploading process of the file is finished and finally its displaying file is not the a ZIP, i need to do this validation as the request comes to the server side, i cant not do this in clint side cause my design should not allow me to use any java script..so please let me know is there any way to specify in the controller it self .
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so definetly u mean , we need to wait till the
filegot uploaded to server, if we use server side
validation?Well, for server side validation, yes you have to wait for the file to upload.
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Save Dialog in Office Application does not set the Content Type to the one selected on Document Creation.

We have a Library that supports 4 Content Types ("Content Type 1","Content Type 2","Content Type 3","Content Type 4")
The user clicks new and selects "Content Type 3"
Word is started
The user edits the document
Clicks Save
"Choose Content Type" dialog is shown set to the Content Type "Content Type 1" because the Document content type is ordered as First (which also means Default)
What is expected is the "Choose Content Type" dialog to show "Content Type 3" as selected
Any ideas?

Hi,
According to your description, there is a library with four content types, you create a document with one of the content types, click save button in Office application,
then a “Choose Content Type” dialog will show up for selecting a content type.
I tried to reproduce as below:
1. Create a library with four content types;
2. In the ribbon of this library, “FILES”->”New Document”->”Content Type 1”, then the Office application with the predefined template will be opened for editing;
3. Click the “Save” button, choose the save path as the current library, click “OK” to finish the process;
4. Refresh the library in browser, the newly created document appears there.
In my test, there is no “Choose Content Type” dialog showing up when save the document in Office application.
I would suggest you provide more details about how to reproduce this issue(screenshot would be better) for further research.
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Apex_web_service.make_rest_request: Passing parameters and the content type

Not sure if I am missing something, but should this API be setting the content type (to application/x-www-url-formencoded) when there are values present for the parameters p_parm_name and p_parm_value.
The example in the docs is to a yahoo API. I'm not sure about that particular one (see: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23903_01/doc/doc.41/e21676/apex_web_service.htm#BABEDJHJ), and I think it requires an appid (yahoo account), so i just went with the example here:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/yql-code-examples.html#yql_php
If I run the following from a html file on my desktop it works:
<form method="POST" action="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql">
<input type="hidden" name="q" value="select * from upcoming.events where location='San Francisco' and search_text='dance'"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="format" value="json"></input>
<input type="submit"></input>
</form>That is, it returns a JSON result.
The raw HTTP data is as follows:
POST http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql HTTP/1.1
Host: query.yahooapis.com
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 110
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Origin: null
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/20.0.1132.47 Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-AU,en;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
q=select+fromupcoming.events+where+location%3D%27San+Francisco%27+and+search_text%3D%27dance%27&format=json>
However, running the following returns nothing: (nothing, as in nothing that depends on the parameters passed in)
set serveroutput on
declare
l_c CLOB;
begin
l_c := apex_web_service.make_rest_request(
    p_url => 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql',
    p_http_method => 'POST',
    p_parm_name => apex_util.string_to_table('q:format'),
    p_parm_value => apex_util.string_to_table('select * from upcoming.events where location=''San Francisco'' and search_text=''dance'':json'),
    p_proxy_override => 'http://192.168.1.3:8888');
dbms_output.put_line(substr(l_c, 1, 4000));
end;Raw HTTP data:
POST http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql HTTP/1.1
Host: query.yahooapis.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 106
Connection: close
q=select+%2A+from+upcoming%2Eevents+where+location%3D'San+Francisco'+and+search_text%3D'dance'&format=json>
I do note a key difference is that content type isn't being set in the web service API.
This was just to test a public service. I do note that the above has slighty different request data (percentage encoding on some chars). However, I experienced the same behaviour on a procedure I had written (I can also provide this example test case if you like), which is where I first noticed the issue.
Using utl_http and setting the content type to application/x-www-url-formencoded, does resolve the issue. However, just thought i'd see the possibility of using the Web service API that is made available.
Is the example in the docs valid, or am I missing something obvious?
This is on ApEx 4.1 on the OTN Dev Days VM.
Thoughts?

Hi trent,
I too have had issues with this API , so moved forward with UTL_HTTP API.
There is something amiss.
If you change your code to the one below it works.
SET SERVEROUT ON
declare
l_c CLOB;
l_param varchar2(1000) ;
begin
l_param := 'select * from upcoming.events where location=''San Francisco'' '||
        ' and search_text=''dance'''||'&'||'format=json';
l_c := apex_web_service.make_rest_request(
    p_url => 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q='||
        utl_url.escape(l_param)
    ,p_http_method => 'POST'
dbms_output.put_line(substr(l_c, 1, 4000));
end;
/Note the use of UTL_URL.ESCAPE. The call does not work without it.
I do not use a proxy, so that parameter does not feature in my snippet above.
Cheers,
PS: However, the below does not work. So, it appears that the p_parm_name and p_parm_value do not quite work.
SET SERVEROUT ON;
declare
l_c CLOB;
l_param varchar2(1000) ;
begin
l_param := 'select * from upcoming.events where location=''San Francisco'' and search_text=''dance''';
l_c := apex_web_service.make_rest_request(
    p_url => 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql'
    ,p_http_method => 'POST'
    ,p_parm_name => apex_util.string_to_table('q:format')
    ,p_parm_value => apex_util.string_to_table(utl_url.escape(l_param)||':json')
dbms_output.put_line(substr(l_c, 1, 4000));
end;
/ Edited by: Prabodh on Oct 13, 2012 2:04 PM

How do I set the content type ?

Hi
I have to upload a file from my Java Application to a remote servlet.
I have used the HTTPConnection class to connect to the remote servlet and made it call the POST method explicitly.
How do I set the content type of the file I am uploading from my Java apllication?
I tried to change the content type in the doPost method. by giving
req.setContentType("multipart/form-data"); in the doPost.
It still doesnt work..
Is there any way to set the content type in the Java application?
Thanks in advance

What class is your req variable? If your using a HttpServletRequest, then there is no method req.setContentType("");
In the HttpServletResponse this is for telling the web browser or receving medium what kind of mime type to expect.
And what package is the HttpConnection class from?
I think more precise info is required before this question can be answered.

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