2013-08-28

While exploring SharePoint 2013, I came to know that the CallOut Popup displayed only for the following Lists:

  • Document Library
  • Assert Library
  • Images Library
  • Pages Library
  • Task Lists

And the CallOut Popup did not display for these Lists:

  • Custom Lists
  • Announcements Lists
  • Calendar List
  • Discussions List

A gentleman had query on Linked In group as follows:

Any solutions to get the Callout Popups in Announcements List?

I was not able to find the exact answer but did find a post on Learning Sharepoint (. Sorry to say that I was not satisfied with the given answers because of few reasons:

  1. It retrieves all the announcement list item information and append in another div tag and from there you are able to view the callout Popup.
  2. It works only with one announcement list at a time. We need to change the list name for each Announcement list.
  3. Code using ListData.svc. There is a problem:

If there a space within the List name – let’s say My Announcement – we need to pass the list name without space like MyAnnouncement while passing with ListData.svc (What exactly I faced).

I then decided to create some solution and was able to do that. I have created a solution (I have attached wsp file also ):

  1. Created as SharePoint-Hosted Solution.
  2. Just deploy and it will  for every announcement list.

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Ajeet Kumar Singh