Comments on: 3 Minute Screencast: Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms

By: Marcel Meth

Marcel Meth — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:28:29 +0000

Never mind… I found it. They moved the commands from the menu to the ribbon.

By: Marcel Meth

Marcel Meth — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:39:52 +0000

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?

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Thu, 13 May 2010 14:00:55 +0000

[...] You probably know from reading Laura Rogers‘ posts that one of the great things you can do with the Dataview Web Part (DVWP) is use it to edit list items without ever having to leave your list page. (See Laura’s post: 3 Minute Screencast: Data View Web Part, The Basics – Multiple Edit Forms.) [...]

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:17:53 +0000

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.

By: zafer kadi

zafer kadi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:27:47 +0000

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

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:09:01 +0000

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?

By: David Milliken

David Milliken — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:16:34 +0000

I figured it out.

Thanks

By: David Milliken

David Milliken — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:27:35 +0000

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?

By: paisleygo

paisleygo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:21:18 +0000

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)

By: Mick Brown

Mick Brown — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:08:10 +0000

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?