Re: hiding installed webparts from webpart virtual server gallery

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From: Philip Wheat (Pwheat_98_at_yaTAKETHISOUThoo.com)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:57:45 -0600

Question on this - are you referring to a WebPart or a Server Control?
If you're not needing to use all of the plumbing that a Web Part gives
you (it sounds like it with the term "static") then using a standard
Server Control might be a better solution (or at least an easier
managed one.)

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:14:54 -0500, "Oisin Grehan"
<oising.SP@AM.iol.ie> wrote:

>Hi Dustin,
>
>I think you've missed the point. I don't want to remove the WebParts, I only
>want to remove their entries in the Virtual Server gallery. I've created
>several new templates with "static" webparts, e.g. they do not live within a
><WebPartZone> container. These webparts are not for general use by site
>admins, so they should not appear in the gallery, but they still need to be
>installed, since they are in use in the templates.
>
>For background information, read up on static webparts. I am no sharepoint
>newbie, I've been using it since early betas. So, to reiterate my question
>to any sharepoint experts there, notably MSFT people, how can I remove the
>WP entries from the gallery without disabling their use statically with
>templates?
>
>If the answer involves hacking WSS sql tables, fine, I don't mind. Anyone?
>
>- Oisin
>
>
>"Dustin Miller [MVP]" <dustin-s-p-a-m@sharepointexperts.com> wrote in
>message news:Xns94A67AECEE983spedustin@207.46.248.16...
>> "Oisin Grehan" <oising.SP@AM.iol.ie> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm not afraid of getting the hands dirty, so do your worst [MSFT]
>> > respondents; I've already hacked this beast to ribbons as it stands, so
>> > bring it on... :-)
>>
>> If it's in the VS gallery, it must've been installed after WSS itself was
>> installed, in which case, couldn't you use STSADM to remove the WPPack
>from
>> the virtual server?
>>
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