Many times i thought that there must be a way to get rid of this Title column, because it's name does not suit the business requirements most of the time.
so i think best option is to rename the Title column so at least user can feel some good look about that field. Although that is different thing that in code , we still have to refer that field as Title column only.
Is that a best solution? i do not think so. so i though of digging a bit in content types and all and found out one interesting thing.
After digging in this at some extent, i got a conclusion saying that Title column can be considered as a content type column. let me explain you why and that actually gives answer to the post also. Follow the steps mentioned below.
Well here we go :
(1)Go to Your list settings on which you want to hide/remove title column.
(2)Go to advanced settings of that list.
(3)Click on yes at very first option. Allow management of content types.
(4)Once you do this, one more setting panel becomes visible in advanced settings options. check out the figure below.
(5)Now click on that Item content Type.
(6)As you can see here you will find all columns are listed along with Title column.
(7)Click on that Title column. you will see a page similar to this.
(8)Select the last radio button which is Hidden.
(9)save all settings and then go back to list and click on new Item and see... now Title column is no more there....
Make sure that you also remove all reference of Title column from views because it is hidden now but still it will be there in views.
That's it. your job is done.
17 comments:
If we hide the title column,How can we edit an list item
change the view.
add "Edit (link to edit item)" you will have a button for editing the item.
Nice post. Verry helpful (unlike the MS help!)
One side effect is that you always get the headline "ListItem (no title)" in edit forms - how could this be resolved ?
This is AWESOME ! God I was looking for that for a long time !
@Norbert,
you can avoid by removing it from view or use event handler to fill it with some column.
I did remove it from the view but it still says (no title)
Can I have it default to another column? "list item: date field" ?
@Stefanie,
you can add Edit (link to edit item) in view
other option is
you can use event handle and fill title column with some field value and remove that field from view
you can implement same ECB menu by programming only...
What if I want to 'Group By' a column I've created?
create a view with group by of your column.
Thanx a ton for posting this :)
Regards-
Harmeet Singh Bhamra
thanks Harmeet.
This does not seem to work on a calculated column, right? The Options to choose between "Required", "Optional" and "Hidden" are greyed out.
@Till,
yes you are right, this is because its not column in DB its just kind of function and internally sharepoint is just getting in select query so that might be the reason its not possible for calculated column.
good catch :)
Thanks for the detailed post. Was indeed a great help .
You are AWESOME.....
Is there a way to edit title's column in document library?
Please advice :)
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