Comments on: Tips and Tricks: Opening a Hidden Web Part

By: Neville

Neville — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:34:10 +0000

Thanks for the information guys/girls, and the lady’s request was quite a legitimate one. Because exactly the same thing happened to me. I mistakingly hit the close instead of exit edit and wanted to modify my web part….I knew it was not deleted but hidden.

By: Dhyan

Dhyan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:57:53 +0000

This function or facility to manage the page webparts (?Contents=1) is already there since SPS 2003

By: Sharepoint Use Cases

Sharepoint Use Cases — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:22:40 +0000

Quick tips: Managing closed web parts and calendar filtering…

Here are two quick tips: 1. Managing closed web parts A customer emailed me in a panic… He closed a…

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:25:31 +0000

Thank you!

Saved my life!

?contents=1 doesnt work there is no option to open the web parts from there

By: EndUserSharePoint

EndUserSharePoint — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:39:42 +0000

Not sure… did you try it?

By: Daryl

Daryl — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:07:06 +0000

I realize this conversation is almost a year old, but is it possible to re-open a closed webpart from the contents=1 page?

By: Mark Miller

Mark Miller — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:54:35 +0000

Alex — Yes, I had seen your post before. Good tip…

Tobias — Your method works well. In addition to showing how to delete a hidden web part, the intent of my post was to demonstrate how to make the web part visible again.

Thank you both for your input.

By: Àlex

Àlex — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:14:33 +0000

There is another way explained in my blog (http://sharepointxperience.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html).
If you add “?contents=1″ to the url you will access to the maintainance page and you can delete all your closed web parts. For examle: “http://MyMOSSSite/Pages/Default.aspx?contents=1″.

Enjoy it!

By: Tobias Zimmergren

Tobias Zimmergren — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:26:00 +0000

Hi,

The correct way to handle an issue like this (deleting closed web parts) is to go to the Web Parts Maintenance page and delete it from there.

You can easily navigate to the following url: http://yoursite/whatever/default.aspx?contents=1

The important thing to note here is that you simply add the querystring of “?contents=1″ to the end of your URL-string and you’ll get to the WP Maintenance page. From there, you can manage the Web Parts on that perticular page.

Cheers