Re: Help: Can not add a listing to the portal area?
- From: "Ed125" <ehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:18:00 -0300
TPHAN :
Did you suceed with this ?
Please let me know, I was rather buisy but I could finally get it to work
Regards
Ed
"TPHAN" <TPHAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje
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> Hi Ed,
>
> Thanks for your reply. It is good you've experienced what I am
> experiencing, and even better you are sharing your findings.
>
> In brief, I'd like to try whether it is possible to make a custom list
> created in one area available in another area as a web part. Say, I
> create a
> custom list in area A and display it using a web part. I want to make
> this
> custom list/web part available in area B, So I can use this custom list
> in
> area B without recreate it again and display it in a web part. When I
> edit
> the custom list, it will change in both area A and B. This will make the
> portal site construction a bit easier and reduce maintenance.
>
> From your post, it seems the only way to do above is to create a data view
> web part over the custom list by FP2003. Can you give me the steps to do
> it?
> You also learned a trick not to unghosted the page, can you point me to
> that
> original link/source? so I can learn/try it myself.
>
> Thanks.
>
> "Ed125" wrote:
>
>> Hi ,
>> I've been trough this myself,
>> The only "magical and incredible smart" thing that the procedure of
>> "Select
>> a portal area for this list ..." does when you are sitting in the "Modify
>> Columns and settings" page for the list, is to create a listing pointing
>> to
>> the list in the "Portal listings" of the targeted area(s), something you
>> can
>> do by hand in 30 seconds.
>> So, there is no whay to make the list itself available in the subarea
>> (for
>> showing it in a web part, for example) unless you :
>> - Of course, recreate or copy the list in the subarea
>> - Save the list as a template in the original area and then create it in
>> the
>> subarea based on tis template. You can also use the "include content"
>> option
>> when creating the template. However, the newly created list based in the
>> template in the subarea, is a completly and new independent list :
>> conclusion - duplicated manteinance of the data it contains (unless I'm
>> wrong with this, maybe you'd better try it yourself)
>> - The option supposed to solve this issue : In the subarea, use frontpage
>> to
>> create a Data View Web Part that points to the list that actually resides
>> in
>> another area (or anywhare). Howhever, you will have to use FP and
>> "unghost"
>> the area page. But there is also a workarround for the ghosting stuff :
>> Create de DVWP in a temporary web part page, and then export the WP and
>> import it to the destination area or page. This procedure won't unghost
>> the
>> page. However, it's kinda tricky and me myself could never get it to work
>> properly.
>>
>> Regards
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>
>> "TPHAN" <TPHAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió en el mensaje
>> news:6BE94191-1604-4119-B2D1-A547030B1112@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi Hollis,
>> >
>> > I will take your advice to check out the log file, and may be open up a
>> > new
>> > thread for answers. I will keep you posted any findings. Can I
>> > contact
>> > you
>> > by your email? It may not be convenient for you to come back digging
>> > out
>> > the
>> > threads.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your guide and have a good weekend there.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Hollis D. Paul" wrote:
>> >
>> >> In article <8DE7E928-1A0E-4E51-973B-9F4B6BD749F0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> >> =?Utf-8?B?VFBIQU4=?= wrote:
>> >> > Can you tell me where the SPS install logs are? and what to look
>> >> > for?
>> >> > and
>> >> > what might be the cause for this?
>> >> >
>> >> > I've already had a SPS site running. Is there any way/steps I can
>> >> > back
>> >> > up
>> >> > what I have now and restore it after reinstalling the SPServer?
>> >> >
>> >> You might want to post this as a new thread. I am not really the
>> >> expert
>> >> on
>> >> these kinds of SharePoint details. That being said, I looked in
>> >> ...\Program
>> >> Files\SharePoint Portal Server\Logs and there is a log named
>> >> SPS_SiteCreation_Dark Corner.log and the date is about right for my
>> >> last
>> >> clean
>> >> install of SPS. Yours will have the name of your portal, rather than
>> >> Dark
>> >> Corner (I thought SPS was very murky at the time I created the
>> >> portal.)
>> >> That
>> >> might be the one to look at.
>> >>
>> >> You do not lose your databases when you re-install SPS. There is
>> >> supposed to
>> >> be a way to provision a new portal from your old databases, but I
>> >> wound
>> >> up
>> >> attaching my old databases to the new portal. So, it created the 4
>> >> new
>> >> databases and I attached 3 of the old databases. It works, but seems
>> >> messy.
>> >>
>> >> Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
>> >> Hollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> Mukilteo, WA USA
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
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