Create SharePoint Buttons on Administration Page

January 23, 2014 · updated March 24, 2014

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A long time ago I wrote a SharePoint administration page and had used the “Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls” dll to create Ok and Cancel buttons at the bottom of the page. Well I recently had a customer who wanted to use it but only had WSS and the page was erroring out when they tried to load it instead I ended up using another solution from Karine Bosch which is below.

Link to original article: http://karinebosch.wordpress.com/sharepoint-controls/buttonsectionascx-control/

To include a ButtonSection control on an application page you have to use the following syntax:

<wssuc:ButtonSection runat="server" ShowStandardCancelButton="true">  
    <template_buttons>  
       <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server">                 
           <asp:Button id="SubmitButton" UseSubmitBehavior="false" runat="server" class="ms-ButtonHeightWidth"   
                       Text="OK" OnClick="SubmitButton_Click" />  
       </asp:PlaceHolder>  
    </template_buttons>  
</wssuc:ButtonSection>

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Add also a directive at the top of the page:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="ButtonSection" Src="/_controltemplates/ButtonSection.ascx" %>

Code for the OnClick event of the individual buttons needs to be written within a

protected Button SubmitButton;          
 public void SubmitButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)  
 {  
     // TODO: must save the changes proposed on the page  
 }

There are also a number of attributes you can set on the ButtonSection control:

ShowStandardCancelButton: if you set this property to true, a Cancel button is automatically added to the ButtonSection control. This cancel button will redirect the user to the previous page in the browser history.
- ShowSectionLine: set this property to false if you don’t want a section line to be added above the buttons. The default value is true.
  - BottomSpacing: in case of long pages it is possible you want to add a button section at the top of the page and one at the bottom of the page. If you put a button section at the top of the page, you can set this property to a value higher than zero to add extra blank spacing between the button section and the controls that follow.
    - SmallSectionLine: if you set this boolean value to true, the section line will be 1px high; if set to false, the section line will be 2px high. The default is false.