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Luis Valencia
Luis Valencia

Reputation: 34008

Hiding Title FIeld in Sharepoint not working

I am trying to do the following to hide the title field from the new and edit form but its still visible.

pls help

 /// <summary>
        /// Adds source list and content type.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="currentWeb"></param>
        private void AddSourcesList(SPWeb currentWeb)
        {
            currentWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;

            #region Add Source content type.
            if(currentWeb.ContentTypes[SponsoringCommon.Constants.CONTENTTYPES_SOURCES_NAME] == null)
            {
                #region Hides title column
                    currentWeb.Lists.Add(SponsoringCommon.Constants.LISTNAMES_SOURCES_NAME, string.Empty, SPListTemplateType.GenericList);
                    SPList sourceList = currentWeb.Lists.TryGetList(SponsoringCommon.Constants.LISTNAMES_SOURCES_NAME);
                    SPField titleField = sourceList.Fields.GetField("Title");
                    titleField.Required = false;                    
                    titleField.ShowInEditForm = false;
                    titleField.ShowInDisplayForm = false;
                    titleField.ShowInNewForm = false;
                    titleField.Hidden = true;
                    titleField.Update(); 
                #endregion

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2345

Answers (1)

utsikko
utsikko

Reputation: 1545

I cannot see the rest of the code, but I had similar problem, and the thing I was missing is to .Update() the List and the Web. So in your case try to update sourceList and at the end currentWeb.

Hopefully, it will help solve your problem.

Upvotes: 4

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