Tuesday, February 22, 2005

SharePoint Howto: Display list or document library from a parent site within a subsite

Howto: Display list or document library data from a parent site within a different site

"I get asked this one a lot, and thought I had blogged it but it looks like I didn't. The general user scenario is where you have a parent site (http://myserver) that contains a list of information that is relevant to a bunch of subsites (http://myserver/subsite) and you want to display the data from the parent inside the children.

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Step by step instructions for displaying a SharePoint list from a Parent site on a subsite...

Now I wonder if it would work reverse? Displaying a SubSite's list on a Parent site? I guess when I have a few minutes now I'll have to give it a try...

(via The Boiler Room - SharePoint - FrontPoint: Howto - Display list or document library data from a parent site within a different site)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you get it working in reverse?

Greg said...

I was never able to get around to really trying and have since not been in a position to play with SharePoint much...

I wish I could have been of more help,
Greg

Vivian said...

Great that there is a solution! I was going officially insane ;)

Quick q though - do you know if this is possible without front page?

Thanks in advance & best regards,

Vivian

Greg said...

I don't know (about without FrontPage)...

But since the SharePoint Designer is now free, I'd use that instead of FrontPage...