{"id":123,"date":"2008-07-30T10:34:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idubbs.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2008-07-30T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T16:34:58","slug":"web-parts-minimize-and-restore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/2008\/web-parts-minimize-and-restore\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Parts: Minimize and Restore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was working with a client on a list web part on a page &#8211; and changing the view options didn&#8217;t seem to be working.\u00a0 In fact, nothing with the view seemed to be working.\u00a0\u00a0Nothing was displaying\u00a0when I got to the page and we were thinking that the\u00a0filter criteria for the\u00a0web part\u00a0wasn&#8217;t returning the right\u00a0results.\u00a0 But when I went to the list itself, the views were showing results just fine.\u00a0 So, I checked the view that\u00a0was being used, changed to another view,\u00a0edited the current view, etc&#8230;\u00a0 All with the same results\u00a0 nothing.\u00a0 Weird.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In typical SharePoint administrator mode, I started clicking around to see if anything else seemed amiss &#8211; only to notice that the dropdown menu &#8211; which I had up until now not <em>really<\/em> been reading because I was just opening the dropdown to get to the modify option.\u00a0 Oh look, it says &#8216;Restore&#8217; now.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 The web part had just been minimized.\u00a0 Once I restored the web part the last view I set it too magically appeared.\u00a0 Ah, the simple things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t ever use the web part minimize feature.\u00a0 Not to say folks don&#8217;t have a good use for it, I just don&#8217;t generally use it myself so didn&#8217;t even think about it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll usually either have a web part in full view, close it if I&#8217;m saving it for some reason, or more likely just delete it so it&#8217;s not lingering on the page and sucking up memory to load it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, this didn&#8217;t take more than a few minutes to figure out, but I can see where this might easily be frustrating to users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The typical drop down menu options:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/209.95.55.158\/~idubbsco\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/minimize.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124\" title=\"minimize\" src=\"http:\/\/209.95.55.158\/~idubbsco\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/minimize.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not much different from the menu when the web part has been minimized:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/209.95.55.158\/~idubbsco\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/restore.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125\" title=\"restore\" src=\"http:\/\/209.95.55.158\/~idubbsco\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/restore.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just another day in the world of SharePoint.\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Again, nothing revolutionary, just a day-to-day tidbit.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was working with a client on a list web part on a page &#8211; 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