Text Above Tabs – Content Type

[Carrie Wheeler]

I want to display the content type name above tabs in my newform. I have tried using {ContentType} but it shows just as this and not the name of the content type. The field ‘Content Type’ does show in my fields list and ‘ContentType’ does show as the FieldInternalname. Is content type not supported in the Text above tabs? Or perhaps I am using this option incorrectly?

[Alexander Bautz]

Hi,
The content type name is not accessible directly in NewForm, but if you are using SP 2013 / 2016 you can add this HTML to the “Show this text above the tabs”:

<div id="contentTypeName"></div>

And then add this to your Custom JS

jQuery.ajax({
    url: _spPageContextInfo.webServerRelativeUrl + "/_api/web/lists/getById('"+_spPageContextInfo.pageListId+"')/ContentTypes('"+GetUrlKeyValue("ContentTypeId")+"')",
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
        "accept": "application/json; odata=verbose",
        "content-type": "application/jsom;odata=verbose",
        "X-RequestDigest": document.getElementById("__REQUESTDIGEST").value
    },
    success: function (data) {
	    jQuery("#contentTypeName").html(data.d.Name);		
    },
    error: function (err) {
        // console.log(err);
    }
});

Alexander

[Carrie Wheeler]

This code is working perfectly to bring in the name of the content type. It was wrapped in the curly brackets originally but I used your tip on another post to put in the “default” and it is now all sorted out. Thank You!!

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