Re: Web Part Connection w/ DocLib?

From: John Jansen \(MSFT\) (johnjan_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:10:01 -0700

This is more of a test than anything else. I cannot currently see any of my
own posts, although I do see your responses to them.

I certainly misunderstand my fair share of scenarios as well :-) 

-- 
Thanks!
John Jansen
Microsoft Office FrontPage
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"Mike Walsh [MVP]" <englantilainen@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:eCecWORIEHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> 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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