Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

840 Part IX: Maintaining a Server in Windows SharePoint Services
You can add a Web Part to a page, personalize it extensively, close it, and then
later add it back to the page with the personalization intact. To bring back a closed Web
Part, select it from the Web Part Page gallery and drag it to the designated position.
When you first create a Web Part Page, there are no Web Parts within this gallery.
To truly delete a Web Part from a page, you must click the Modify My Page
menu (or the Modify Shared Page menu in Shared View) and then click Design This
Page to add the Delete command to the drop-down menu of the Web Part. To delete
a Web Part from the Web Part Page gallery, perform either of the following steps:
■ Add the Web Part back on to the page, click the arrow on the right side of the
Web Part title bar, and then click Delete.
Or
■ Browse to the Web Part Maintenance page, select the check box to the right of
the Web Part, and click Delete. Make sure you are in the view you want, either
Personal View or Shared View. A note at the bottom of the page displays
whether you are in Personal View or Shared View. If the Web Part Page is
stored in a document library, rest your mouse pointer on the title, click Edit
Properties on the Edit menu, and then click Open Web Part Page in maintenance
view. If you are viewing the Web Part Page, you can navigate to the
Web Part Maintenance page by appending ?Contents=1 to the Web Part Page’s
URL—for example, http://woodgrove/sites/Financials/default.aspx?contents=1.
You can alternatively specify the view from the query as well, by adding Page-
View=Shared or PageView=Personal when used with contents=1. This will take
you to the correct view—for example, http://woodgrove/default.aspx?Contents=1&PageView=Personal.
Gallery
Tip The Web Part Maintenance page is an extremely useful page if you are
having persistent problems with a Web Part or a Web Part connection. Also,
if the Web Part that the user closes initially is bad and does not allow the
page to render, the only way to delete the offending Web Part by using the
browser is to use the Web Part Maintenance page.
This Web Part Page gallery is typically managed by a site collection administrator,
who decides which Web Parts are displayed in the gallery and thereby determines
which Web Parts are visible in the team site gallery for sites in the site collection.
There is only one gallery for each site collection. Site collection administrators
can use the Web Part Gallery page to add or remove Web Parts from the list
of Web Parts available for use or to upload new Web Parts.