Re: Web Part Connection w/ DocLib?

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From: Mike Walsh [MVP] (englantilainen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:55:34 +0300

> I don't think you completely understand his scenario,

that doesn't surprise me a bit (I indicated as much in my messages)

you are "allowed" to jump in whenever you want, please do.

I'm quite used to being corrected around here :)

Thanks for posting detailed instructions. I'll try them myself and maybe
just maybe I'll understand the question next time it comes.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland

"John Jansen (MSFT)" <johnjan@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:OgeKMIOIEHA.3248@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Sorry Mike, I'm jumping in again.
>
> I don't think you completely understand his scenario, but since it was a
key
> scenario for FrontPage, I guess I'll try to help out. I thought this was
a
> KB article, in fact, I thought I wrote it, but I can't find it right now
so
> I'll check on its status.
>
> Dave,
>
> 1. Open your site in FrontPage
> 2. For simplicity, create a new page
> 3. Drag the Document Library folder from the Folder list onto this page
> (this should create a Data View of the Doc Lib)
> 4. Drag any one of the XML files onto the page below this View (should
> create a data view of the XML file - you can add and remove and format
this
> view anyway you like)
> 5. Right click the first Data View and choose "Web Part Connections"
> 6. Provide Data To
> 7. Web Part on this Page
> 8. Modify View Using Parameters (NOT FILTER, MODIFY)
> 9. Map the "Name for use in Forms" field to the "Input File" field (this
> will make it so that the XML file used as the input to your XSLT will
change
> when you click to fire the connection)
> 10. Finish the connection creating a hyperlink on one of your fields
> 11. Save and preview in browser
>
> When you click each link you created in the connection wizard, the XML
from
> that file should show up in the second Data View you created.
>
>
> --
> Thanks!
> John Jansen
> Microsoft Office FrontPage
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> "Mike Walsh [MVP]" <englantilainen@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:uWoe%23AmHEHA.308@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I'm still not sure if we're talking about the same thing but I'll answer
> > the
> > question anyway.
> >
> > You click the right top side of the (custom list) web part and select
from
> > the options Connections, then one of the choices is "provide row to" and
> > you
> > select the doc lib web part. The it throws up which field in the custom
> > list
> > web part (you pick one from the drop-down) then the same for the doc lib
> > web
> > part - select one there and Finish. That's got the connection setup.
> >
> > Now these connections work when there are suitable fields in both parts
> > (but
> > not I've discovered with the Office web parts, those only seem to work
> > with
> > each other) but with info coming from a database (grabbed with FP 2003
> > Data
> > View) it's fine (and that as John Jansen recently told my is XSLT) so
I'm
> > hoping it works with the kind of web part you have in mind. I took the
> > example of a local (custom list) web part and a doc lib web part because
> > it's easier to explain / always works and you said you had a doc lib to
> > play
> > with.
> >
> >
> > Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> >
> > "dave" <dsloat@mathsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:6c459720.0404091007.4876e4ef@posting.google.com...
> >> Thanks for your help. I don't follow step 4. How do I "amend the
> >> custom list web part so that it connects to the doc lib web part
> >> specifying the common field - first in the custom list web part then
> >> in the doc lib web part"? Is this done through "modify shared web
> >> part"?
> >>
> >> Let me try to explain what I'm trying to accomplish more clearly. I'd
> >> like to have a page with a document library (containing xml files),
> >> and an XML webpart (or something like it). When a user clicks on a
> >> file in the document library I would like to be able to apply an XSLT
> >> transform to the file and display the results in the other webpart.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Mike Walsh [MVP]" <englantilainen@mvps.org> wrote in message
> > news:<ukCFN4jHEHA.2668@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> >> > This shouldn't be a problem. Always assuming I understand the problem
> >> > correctly.
> >> >
> >> > 1. You have your existing document library. It has fields from which
> >> > you
> >> > select one as your selection criteria.
> >> >
> >> > 2. You create a custom list containing a field of the same type as
that
> >> > field from 1. and containing the possible values of that field in 1.
> >> >
> >> > 3. You create a web page and drag both web parts (the web part of the
> > doc
> >> > lib and the web part of the custom list) onto your page.
> >> >
> >> > 4. You set up the doc lib web part to be in the view you want to use
> > here.
> >> > You then amend the custom list web part so that it connects to the
doc
> > lib
> >> > web part specifying the common field - first in the custom list web
> >> > part
> >> > then in the doc lib web part.
> >> >
> >> > Now you have radio buttons for your custom list selections. Choose
one
> > and
> >> > you get your selection from the doc lib web part.
> >> >
> >> > Normal stuff, so what did you really mean ??
> >> >
> >> > Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> >> > WSS FAQ at wss.collutions.com
> >> > Please reply to the newsgroup
> >> >
> >> > "dave" <dsloat@mathsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:6c459720.0404090603.32fbdded@posting.google.com...
> >> > > I would like to create a web part that displays a summary view of
> >> > > certain documents stored in a standard document library. Ideally
> >> > > this
> >> > > web part could be included on the same page as the document library
> >> > > such that selecting a file in the document library would load the
> >> > > summary view for that file in the web part.
> >> > >
> >> > > Is there a way I could define a view in the document library such
> >> > > that
> >> > > there would be some field that could act as a link to the other web
> >> > > part? Any other ways to get the document library to communicate
with
> >> > > another web part?
> >
> >
>
>

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