Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

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re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Thomas Goddard — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:40:57 GMT

Hi,

I am having trouble with something along the lines of the "Content Query Web Part Limitation", that you mention in the post.

I would like to use the Page Field Filter in my Page Layout so that Data Views can pull the "Title" field from the current page and filter a list. This could also potentially be a category that the page is in, which subsequently filters the list data on the page to only show data for the current pages category.

This is proving to be quite a pain in the you know what! I was hoping you could provide some further details on how to set the web part properties or filter parameters based on the current page title.

Your help would be much appreciated and very helpful for many things.

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Bram Kleverlaan — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:33:20 GMT

Hi Tyler,

I ran into the same issue with the content query web part, but I think a found a workaround; I have created a page-layout for an article that should contain a small overview of all other articles in that site. I would like to use this page-layout in several sites, but don’t want to bother the author with the configuration each time he/she creates a new article. My workaround doesn’t require any custom components: I add a content query web part to the page-layout and configure it with the proper layout and query for a fixed site. When the configuration is done, I change the WebUrl of the configured content query web part in the page-layout to:

WebUrl="<%  $SPUrl:~Site/ %> "

If you create a new page based on this page-layout, the page automatically shows all other articles within the same site. Downside of this workaround is that if you reconfigure the content query web part it disappears…

Bram

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Bram Kleverlaan — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:35:48 GMT

Should be:

WebUrl="<% $SPUrl:~Site/ %>"

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Peter Holpar — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:39:33 GMT

Hi,

Nice work, thank you.

Could you tell me, how you protected system pages (e.g. ones that reside in the pages/forms folder, like allitems.aspx) on your site? We are creating a MOSS 2007 based Internet site that uses mixed anonymous and forms based authentication and we do not want these pages to be visible on the public front end server for visitors.

Thanks,

Peter

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Pieter Maertens — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:36:15 GMT

Hi Tyler,

We have fully customized Content Query Webparts for different lists (each content query webpart have it's own ContentQueryMainXXX.xsl file). But the list of tasks have to much items to show on the homepage, so we are searching for a solution to Limit those Items.

But, for ex. you have 20 Items in total, you select you want to show 5 Items Per page, so there will appear an arrow to the next page with the next 5 List Items on it.

So we are searching for a solution like it does with the standard List webparts.

You have an idea? We can't find anywhere on the internet something about this and we guess there will many people get headache off this problem.

Regards,

Pieter Maertens

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Dragan Panjkov — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:08:15 GMT

Tyler,

do you have some workaround for search control, i.e I need searchBoxEx to be inside divs and not tables... Any suggestions?

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Lennart — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:38:02 GMT

Nice article series, very informative.

How would you go about implementing a streamlined WebBased user interface for Content Creation and Approval with the

ordinary Review-Approve workflow. Essentially this would be for

larger sites with multiple Contributors / Editors e.t.c.

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Lindy Gibbons, Cincinnati — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:59:56 GMT

I noticed you have a custom looking search box. I am using SearchBoxEx throughout the site (not the default). It has updated everything except for AllItems.aspx in the lists folder. This still uses the default search box.

It was decided not to update the application.master so some of the administration pages have no styling, but why AllItems.aspx. They have all styling EXCEPT the searchbox I have included in the masters.

Truly appreciate ANY help.

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

sisigi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:46:29 GMT

MS also develop CMS now?

Is official or just supported or volunteers??

re: Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

Computer Forum — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:08:22 GMT

Interesting post, haven't used it yet but after reading this will give it a try. Thanks.