Cool. A list viewer for sharepoint to display a list from another site.
ps. If you are interested in a web part that can display data directly from a sql
server database, check out my Sql
Query Grid web part. Its very simple as far as web parts go, but it has been
invaluable to our team sites. We have the ability to drop in a web part, type in a
query, and display the data in a list without having to do any coding.Excerpt:
Displaying the contents of a list that resides in a different site, is not a standard
out-of-the-box feature of both WSS v2 and SPS 2003. It can however be accomplished
in several ways:
Use FrontPage to add a DataViewer-webpart. Although it’s a standard SharePoint-webpart,
the only way to use it on a page and configure it, is by using FrontPage. Jan Tielens
explains this is his article. Biggest disadvantage of this method is that the page
you edited using FrontPage gets unghosted. You can read more this effect in this MSDN-article.
Todd Bleeker published a list of the biggest disadvantages of unghosted pages.
>> A small trick to get around this problem is to use FrontPage to add the DataViewer-webpart
to a temporary (test) page, export the webpart by using the Export-function of the
webpart’s menu, delete the temporary page and import the exported webpart (dwp) to
the page you needed to see the list.
Use a third-party webpart that has similar functionality as the DataView-webpart,
but doesn’t require the use of an editor as FrontPage to add it to the page. There
are several manufacturers that provide this type of webpart like CorasWorks and BrightWorks,
but there are also some free (usually less advanced and less easy to configure) webparts,
like Carlos Sanz’s csegRollUp.
Use the FlexListViewer-webpart!
FlexListViewer-webpart is able to display any type of list and can be easily configured,
just by configuring the address of a view of the list.
FlexListViewer-webpart:
display lists of other sites without using FrontPage.
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