No I'm not talking about creating a regular calculated column here. Recently I was asked whether we can have a custom column in our list which displays a icon image and hyperlinks to a web part page with querystring.
Calculated column seemed to be the best choice. Below are the steps I followed:
- Create a calculated column in the list.
- In the formula section add
="http://servername/site/doclib/mywebpartpage.aspx?item=/site/doclib/"&[ColumnName]&".docx"
** Url and querystring should be modified according to your needs**
- Select Single line of text for section "The data type returned from this formula is"
- Open FldTypes.xml located in \Template\XML\ .
- Navigate to the node <field name="TypeName">Calculated</field>
- Navigate to <renderpattern name="DisplayPattern">node
- Now either add a new case statement or add this code to Default node.Refer to the first image above. Add the html in the default node.
- Save and Close the file.
- RESET IIS
- Refer to the second image above of how the output displays. "View in SharePoint" column has a icon which contains the hyperlink
