SharePoint QA
Jerry
Member
I have a primary site and there are several subsites. How do I make webparts, for instance a calendar from the primary site available as a choice if I want to add the calendar to a subsite or add a view of the calendar on a subsite? Currently I can only view the webparts for each site.
Jerry
ewnash
Member
Jerry;
I may be wrong on this (often am!) but I don't think that the site/subsite relationship means much in this context. From the perspective of webparts and cross-site queries I believe that a parent site and its subsites are treated just like peer sites would be in the site collection, so you'd need to use something like a CQWP or a dataview to pull lists across sites.
For calendars in particular there is a brisk third-party market in inexpensive calendar web parts that will query and aggregate events lists and other list types across sites. I use one from KwizCom in my implementation. Good luck!
-Eric
Dave T
Member
Jerry,
I just signed in to ask the very same question. We would like to display different views of the same list on different subsites. The 'master' list sits on the top level site. We can link back from subsite to TL, but we can't display the view on the subsite. As you discovered, the 'master' list is not available as a web part on the subsite.
So I ask the panel, for those of us w/o MOSS and SP Designer, can this be done?
Thanks!!
Dave
ewnash
Member
Dave;
Without MOSS for the CQWP or Designer for the dataview I think that your options are greatly reduced. I think that you may want to evaluate third-party solutions like the List Rollup Web part from Bamboo Solutions. I'm not shilling for them (really!) but I use that web part even though I have MOSS and SPD because it's just plain easier when I need to pull lists across sites and to vary the views. I don't think that you can use it to pull a calendar view across sites (there are other webparts for that) but they can do most everything else.
Jerry
Member
Eric/Dave
Thank you for your responses. I am using WSS 3.0 and I do not have SPD. As a result I have made a Webpart page from the parent site which will be for one of the calendar views which I originally wanted on the subsite; I added the master calendar to the new webpart page and changed the view to the appropriate view; suppressed the tool bar and set chrome to none. I am going to move the document library from the subsite to the parent site and set the permission for the library for the appropriate users and then I will add the library to the webpart page. As a result I will not have any subsites but I will several webpart pages.
Hope this makes sense. Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Jerry
Jerry - In the Case Studies in SharePoint Dashboards presentations, that is one of the approaches taken in a WSS implementation. Because there is no subsite rollup capabilities using default web parts, I recommend flattening the site structure so you can have access to all data anywhere within the site through the list and library web parts.
It's not optimal for large sites with different types of content that should be stored and managed in a subsite, but "you've got to work with what you've got".
Regards,
Mark
Jerry
Member
All
Your advice and direction continues to be very, very valuable.
Again, thank you,
Jerry
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