SharePoint Explained: Yes/No fields aren’t your friend – Why Choice fields are a better option
It’s time to decide the best way to display your links on a page. If you are using MOSS, you have what I consider five options: Links List, Content Editor Web Part, Content Query Web Part, Summary Links Web Part, and I Need to.. Web Part. It really comes down to how many links are you trying to display?
The question of the day comes from Diane:
Is there a web part that would pull all tasks assigned to me from sites and sub-sites into one aggregated list?
Diane – Yes, you want to use the Content Query Web Part (CQWP).
Put the CQWP on your desired page. Configure the query to “Show items from the following [...]
The question of the day comes from Brian in Switzerland:
There is a Content Query Web Part, but we don’t have it available in our sites. I think that is exactly what we are looking for to accomplish [a specific task]? How can we get it?
Brian – If you are the site collection manager, you can [...]
If you haven’t subscribed to Bob Mixon’s blog, today’s post is worth the price of admission alone. He demos a step-by-step process for creating a rollup using the Content Query Web Part across multiple libraries. It’s not hard, it’s available out of the box, and is one of the most requested features as sites and document [...]
Many times you’ll find the need to display the same document list in multiple places on your site, or even on other sites within the same site collection. That’s pretty simple to do using the Content Query Web Part. To see a screencast demo go to the Video On-Demand page.
Or else you can follow these steps: