UrlBaseName Element (View)

Article
10/20/2016

Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010

Renders the base name of a particular URL.

<UrlBaseName
  HTMLEncode = "TRUE" | "FALSE">
</UrlBaseName>

Attributes

Attribute	Description
HTMLEncode	Optional Boolean. TRUE to convert embedded characters so that they are displayed as text in the browser. In other words, characters that could be confused with HTML tags are converted to entities.

Child Elements

Field, LookupColumn

Parent Elements

Numerous

Occurrences

Minimum: 0

Maximum: Unbounded

Remarks

This element is particularly useful in document library views.

Remember that Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) is case-sensitive; note the lowercase "rl" in UrlBaseName.

Example

The following example uses the UrlBaseName element to construct the absolute URL for a thumbnail image in a picture library.

<DisplayPattern>
   <HttpHost />
   <UrlDirName>
      <HTML>/</HTML>
      <LookupColumn URLEncodeAsURL="TRUE" Name="FileRef" />
   </UrlDirName>
   <HTML>/_t/</HTML>
   <UrlBaseName>
      <Field Name="EncodedAbsUrl" />
   </UrlBaseName>
   <HTML>_</HTML>
   <GetFileExtension>
      <Field Name="EncodedAbsUrl" />
   </GetFileExtension>
   <HTML>.jpg</HTML>
</DisplayPattern>

If the image file has a .jpg extension and is contained in a picture library on a subsite, the example creates a URL in the following form:

https://Server_Name/Subsite_Name/Library_Name/_t/File_Base_Name/_jpg.jpg