SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog?

Seen the new dialog framework in SharePoint 2010? You know, when you want to create a new item in a list, a dialog appears. It’s actually real easy to create a new dialog... you just have to get your hands dirty with some JavaScript.

The quickest way to show this is with an application page:

When you click the button, poof, you get a dialog!

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posted on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:04 PM

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# re: SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? 12/10/2009 9:22 AM Ryan Avery

Andrew, thanks for the great post! I am a SharePoint Business Analyst for my company and not a developer so I can think of a hundred ways to use this, but not actually code it. I can see this being used to bring up non-sharepoint apps. We're trying to make SharePoint 2010 our intranet and central landing page for the company. With this method, we could re-wrap our other .NET apps with the look and feel of SharePoint and then launch them this way. Thanks for the tip.

# re: SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? 2/15/2010 2:58 PM Michael

Thanks for the info! I am hoping you could help me with a small problem I am have with the dialogs. I used your code word for word and it worked great. However if when the button the triggers the code is at the bottom of the page and the users has to scoll to it the the dialog box is display out of site. It almost seems that once the button is past the half way point the dialog box is no longer centerd in the viewable window... Any ideas?

# ModalDialog to a Div 9/21/2010 12:14 PM Bruno henriques

Hi,

I managed to use the modal dialog with a div instead of an URL.
Bu t I can't get a calendarextender to work. it throws a javascript error saying that there are 2 objects with same id.

Any Idea?

Thanks in advance

Bruno Henriques

# re: SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? 9/24/2010 6:08 AM AC [MVP SharePoint]

@Bruno - I'd use something like FireBug in FireFox or the IE Developer Toolbar to find the duplicate ID's & resolve that issue.

# re: SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? 7/27/2011 1:37 PM Jason

Is it possible to attach this pop-up dialog to the document check-out process? I am looking to add the legaleze since these particular docs are being utilized by external users and internal users.

# re: SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? 7/29/2011 11:53 AM AC [MVP SharePoint]

@Jason - Sort of yes. There isn't an event that gets fired when an item is checked out, but you could replace how the OOTB check out functionality works by modifying what's in the ribbon & in the ECB menu, but I think you're looking at something that's a bit involved there.

# re: SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? 10/14/2011 6:36 AM wasi

i have same scenario but i have jsp page which i want to open in dialogue box can you tell me how can get dynamic url like you have mention

option.url = www.bing.com

i want it dynamic url which i cn define in cs page like this '
javascript

function ShowDialog(url) {

var options = SP.UI.$create_DialogOptions();
options.url = "www.google.com";
options.height = 300;
options.width = 600;
SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options);
}

cs page

HyperLink link = new HyperLink();
link.Text = "View";
link.NavigateUrl = string.Concat("javascript: ShowDialog('", SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb.Url, @"orapps.tapal:8080/.../frameset2.jsp?U_id=" + currentuser.LoginName.Replace(@"TAPALWORLD\", "").TrimStart());
this.Controls.Add(link);

but its not working it give error to open model dialogue

your help would be highly appreciate
Thank you

# re: SharePoint 2010 Dev TidBit – Want to create your own dialog? 10/14/2011 10:44 AM AC [MVP SharePoint]

@Wasi - If it's just JS and you're generating it from the code behind, you can write it ot be anything you like. In your sample above, you aren't changing the URL of the dialog... set it to your 'url' parameter.

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