HI,
I am hoping that I can have one link webpart which I can use throughout my entire site that will use one source for links. I have a list of links that I would like only to update at one time, and have all the webparts throughout the site reflect those updates.
My first attempt was to use the content query webpart – the problem is that it would only show the TITLE, not the URL. When I put the actual URL in the TITLE column, it would not read the TITLE as a url, just a title. This means users have to click through twice.
In researching this problem, I found some good resources.
The first is a link to change the categories in a content query webpart:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb850574(printer).aspx
The problem is that the webpart now prints the whole URL, and it doesn’t work as a link.
I kept searching and found these instructions for makng the CQWB read the URL
http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/2007/01/teach-content-query-web-part-how-to.html
But it had some caveats (if you get it wrong none of your webparts will work) – and also is a bit beyond my programming capacity. (I am a Site Collection administrator, but the site as a whole is run by our IT department)
SO – I went back to plan A which was to take the list, create a view and load it onto the site.
The problem is, I cannot access the list webpart throughout the site, cannot link to it as a webpart, etc.
SO, I would be back to having a list on every site and subsite, which defeats the whole purpose.
Any ideas here? Has someone done it without changing the programming in the CQWB? The only thing left to try is to use the URL as a content type – I’m trying that next, but not today…
Thanks,
Hopeful
