The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is a pretty powerful beast. It allows you to do multiple site queries and aggregate the results.
BPOS is an insanely feature rich platform. Exchange, SharePoint (MOSS Standard!), presence, instant live meetings – it’s a lot of functionality that I would sorely, sorely miss if I had to live without it. My business would be severely impacted without it. Could I find replacement functionality? Probably, but I think I would have to cobble it together from a variety of other vendors, complicating my life. BPOS has so far proven itself to be stable and reliable. For the right kind of customer (like my company), BPOS is worth strong consideration.
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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 Fredric in Sweden:
I have one library with a lot of documents regarding different companies. I want them all in the same folder. I also want to display the content under a site called Customers where I can have one document library for each company. From what I’ve seen [...]
The question of the day comes from Carol:
How do I display a calendar on multiple sub sites so that they are linked to the parent site? I have used a Content Query Web Part but that only gives me a Link to the Title of the Meeting. I want to display a filtered view of [...]
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 [...]
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