That’s all I can say. This is exactly what I’ve been searching for and it worked *beautifully*.

Thank you so much.

I just saw this video that showed how we can join view of sharepoint List.
now, can i join a view of external sharepoint list to a sharepoint library ?

thanks for your help

You’re a lifesaver! I’ve got it now! It’s amazing how non-intuitive that was…Infinite MS wisdom, indeed!

Many thanks for expanding my world.

Tim

1. Setup the Linked Sources with your two lists, make sure you pick join the contents, give it a name, blah blah blah.
2. Create a new dataview, choose your linked source that you just created, show data.
3. I chose a field from my parent list, Insert selected field as multiple view…I do my own styling once the base is setup so I pick one field on setup and add others later.
4. click on the wysiwyg’s first row that it gives you of your parent’s data, at the end of the field.
5. right click, add column to the right.
6. click in that first new column’s row and in your datasource, choose the field you want from your child list (again, I choose 1 field, add others once it’s working). Insert field as a joined subview.
7. The join subview window pops up, pick how your lists are supposed to join, click ok, and from there your child list data should appear in the right column cell that is related to the parent.

In the end, if I recall correctly the problem I was having was all related to the positioning of my cursor when trying to select/add fields to the view. If you’re in the wrong spot, it won’t let you see that join menu, don’t ask me why b’c I can only figure that it’s all by design with MS’s infinite wisdom :)

HTH, let me know if you need other details that I might’ve glazed over too quickly.
Karen.

Struggling with similar issue. I have two lists with 1:1 relationship and a common field (text). Am not understanding how to relate the two “joined” lists such that I can display rows of records with ListA-FieldA, ListA-FieldB, ListB-FieldA…and so on.

Any wisdom?

Tim

Great article! Would I be able to export the web app and use it on another site? If possible, what changes will I need to ensure that I won’t get the ” Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator” ?

Thanks, Ian

Both lists are in the same site and they’re pretty much identical with column names except the 2nd list has a “parent id” field that links it to the first list.

Any ideas what the trick is to that?

environment: MOSS 2007

Thanks for the pointer, the one question I have is how can you get several lists linked in a noral list view?

I joined 2 lists and then clicked show data, but it failed to show data fields. I got the following error message instead.

The server returned a non-specific error when trying to get data from the data source. Check the format and content of your query and try again.

One of the lists has attachments in it. Could that be the reason for failing to show data? Please let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Tharaka