Edit Any SharePoint Page Bookmarklet

A few days ago I posted a short tutorial on how to make a JavaScript bookmarklet to quickly gain Edit access to various SharePoint pages that typically don't allow you to edit the layout & design (form pages typically).

Using a tip from Path to SharePoint, I whipped up a link that unfortunately didn't play well with Blogger.com and I had to host the link on a seperate page. Well, it had been bugging me that I couldn't solve this problem within Blogger so I did a bit of research and found the source of my problem:

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The 'greater than' and 'less than' signs used in the logic of my bookmarklet caused Blogger to misinterpret the code and break it. The solution I came up with was to redo my code to exclude these symbols so that Blogger had nothing to object to.

And now, I present to you, a link within Blogger.com that will allow you to gain edit access to any SharePoint page (that you're authorized to, of course) by simply clicking on a bookmark.

Edit This Page

TAA DAA!!!

To make this thing work, all you have to do is right-click on the link and select "Add to Favorites" in IE or "Bookmark this link" in Firefox. Then when you're looking at a page that you want to edit in SharePoint, simply click on this bookmarklet and you'll be whisked away to a land of lolipops and rainbows ... err, I mean you'll be able to add/remove/edit webparts on that page.

Enjoy!