Thursday, May 28, 2009
3 Minute Screencast: Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms
Continuing with Laura Rogers series, this screencast is to supplement her Multiple Edit Forms article.
Author: Laura Rogers, Birmingham, AL
Laura Rogers is currently a SharePoint Administrator at HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama. She has ten years of experience with Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration systems. This includes four years in SharePoint implementation, training, and customization. Laura has been a MCSE since 1999, with her most recent certifications being MCSE 2003 + Messaging, MCTS in MOSS and MCTS in WSS 3.0 Configuration. She also wrote a chapter in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by Bill English.
View all entries in this series: LauraRogers - Data View Web Part Basics»
Entries in this series:
- New Article Series: Laura Rogers on Data View Web Part Basics
- Data View Web Part, The Basics - Insert a DVWP on Your Page
- 6 Minute Screencast: Insert a Data View Web Part onto a SharePoint Page
- Data View Web Part, The Basics - Folders
- 3 Minute Screencast: Use DVWP to display all files, even those stored in folders!
- Data View Web Part, The Basics - Add a Hyperlink
- Data View Web Part, The Basics - Keep it Clean
- Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms
- 3 Minute Screencast: Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms
- Live Online Workshop - Data View Web Part Solutions: Part 2
- 5 Minute Screencast: SharePoint Web Services for Non-Developers
- 3 Minute Screencast: Merging SharePoint Document Libraries
- 2 Minute Screencast: Permissions Dashboard
- 4 Minute Screencast: Join View of SharePoint Lists
- Get it Together: Groups and Totals in the Data View Web Part (Screencast)
- SharePoint: Open Links in a New Browser Window (Screencast)
- How to Create a SharePoint Data View Web Part “Rollup” (Screencast)
- SharePoint: "New" Icon (Screencast)
- Display a SharePoint List on Another Site (Screencast)
- Customize the "no items" Display Text in SharePoint (Screencast)
- SharePoint: Displaying Calculated Column SUMS in a View (Screencast)
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That was great thanks Laura, never really thought of using it like that but it could come in handy.
Completely unrelated question: What package are you using to record your videos?
I have been trying to use the fun dvwp styling – that you can do in SPD – but I have been consistently running into 2 roadblocks
1. First I try using the UI to filter
If I insert the list view webpart onto my page – and then filter it and get it close to how I want it to look (grouped etc…) then go into SPD and “convert to xslt” I get the following error
“The server returned an non-specific error when trying to get data from the datasource.
Check the format and content of your query and try again.
If the problem persists, contact the server administrator”
2. Then I try creating the DVWP in SPD
I create a DVWP straight on the page – without using the ui – style it like I want it, and then go to the rendered page and export it – then try to import it back onto the page I want it on…
I get the
System.ArgumentException: The specified view is invalid.
Any tips on how to debug-troubleshoot what it is that is breaking the thing?
3. And further – once I have the webpart – does anyone know how to alter the code – so I can switch which list it looks at? (in case I want to use it in another site with the same type of list)
Hello Laura,
I’ve created a DVWP per your instructions (thank you) – I have a number of entries in the DVWP and would like to limit how many are visible at one time. Like on your “Permissions” DVWP – lets say you only wanted to see 6 at a time. Is there a way to do this?
I figured it out.
Thanks
Hello Laura,
I am trying to follow the same procedure, but instead link 3 lists instead of just two. I am getting the same error as paisleygo:
“The server returned an non-specific error when trying to get data from the datasource. Check the format and content of your query and try again. If the problem persists, contact the server administrator.”
Any idea why? From what I understand, this should be possible, but is it not supported?
Hey Laura I’ve been following your posts and they are great, but I have a question can we like insert and edit at the same data view like if data view has zero rows an insert form shows up.
thanx alot
This was helpful for making a listed easily editable by folks who have a hard time with technology. Thanks for posting.
One thing I’ve found that is problematic is that alerts setup on this list fire for every item in a found set demonstrated on the page – even when only one item is updated. This nulifies the value of the alert because we have to sort through a ton to find, for example, just one that was edited.
I recreated Laura’s steps just fine using SharePoint Designer 2007 and WSS 3.0. However, when I tried to reproduce these steps in SP 2010 and SharePoint Foundation. I inserted the fields of my lists with “Multiple Item View” and then tried to get the get the menu item that allows me to inserted “Edit, Delete, and Edit” items from the Common Tasks menu.
In SPD 2010 the Common Tasks menu has been cut down dramatically. WHere did all these menu choices go? How can I change the various properties of the DVWP that has been inserted in Mulitple Item View?
Never mind… I found it. They moved the commands from the menu to the ribbon.