Re: Web part connections versus calculated column

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From: ptm (ptm_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:50:02 -0700

Thank you for the authoritive answer Steven, I was starting to think it was such a dumb question no one would answer it and after trying to link the web parts a thousand ways feel better about the wasted time.

Follow up. All the "help" data indicates that I should be able to sort rows in one Web Part with a connection to another. Even though the menu item indicates "Filter or Sort" my results are only the "Filter" capability, and no sorting takes place.

Are my expectiations of Web Part Connections once again too high? If I could use the "concatenate function" on a lookup column I would have a solution but the program won't let me use that function with the column.

Thank you for the help. It was certainly a definitive answer!!

"Steven Collier [MVP]" wrote:

> Can't be done.
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> Steven Collier
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> SharePoint Portal Server MVP
> "ptm" <ptm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:48840995-FE93-4E77-8CBD-2AFF2D37827E@microsoft.com...
> > Please redirect if there is a more appropriate discussion group
> > It should be really simple to lookup a value in one column of a webpart by
> reference to a common value used in two web parts but I'm going around in
> circles. Creating the web part connections works fine but the technique to
> pull in the other columns value has me stumped. If I were to use a
> calculated value instead of working with web part connections what is the
> naming protocol for another web part within a formula?
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