SharePoint and the magic of query strings
One of typical requests from users is the ability to have a page open in a certain state, where things automagically appear and happen by themselves. Throughout my travels, I have come by many of these magic strings of text that we put into the url bar and something amazing happens, some of these not even accessible - at least easily - through the user interface. My goal with this post is to lay down some of these bad boys, who they are and what they do. Old but gold, open the "Web Part Page Maintenance" Query: ?contents=1 Result: opens a page with all the web part instances, effectively allowing us to manage (close, delete, etc.) web parts and very useful to troubleshoot problematic web parts Go into the current page's edit mode If - for whatever reason - you need to open a page in edit mode, you can add this one. Query: ?ToolPaneView=2 Result: page opens automatically in edit mode Open a view in quick edit mode We can open up a view already in qui...