Re: Persist user information using only out-of-the-box web parts

Your list of caveats doesn't suggest that FrontPage 2003 is out of the question, so I'll jump in and suggest FrontPage 2003 and the Data View Web Part. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/frontpoint/ for a blog written by the guys that developed that web part, and experiment with it as much as you can! Custom lists and the Data View Web Part will do everything you need -- In fact, your example is one that's taught in the SharePoint Bootcamp (link in my signature). :)

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Dustin Miller
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I am looking for a simple way to persistent a couple of pieces of user
information (LoginID, ProductID, max. 4-5 pieces of information) on a
WSS site. The end result is to produce a series of hyperlinks to a old
backend database like this:

Show All My Problems - http://server/query.cfm?loginID=[loginID]
Show All My Current Project Problems -
http://server/query.cfm?loginID=[loginID]&productID=[ProductID].
Using the standard XML web part, I tried to use a simple XML file,
like this
<UserData>
<LoginID>57</LoginID>
<ProductID>104</ProductID>
</UserData>
Then use an XSL to render the dynamic links into HTML like this:
Show All My Problems - http://server/query.cfm?loginID=57.
Show All My Current Project Problems -
http://server/query.cfm?loginID=57&productID=104.
This works fine for a single person.  I wanted to have each user only
change the XML portion of the web part, customize the userinformation
to him/her. Thus, he would do this once, and we would persist the
user's data in the XML portion of the web part.

My limitations that I am working with:
Current web pages, html pages, aspx etc and standard out of the
box Web
parts only.
(basically anything I can do with the current SP interface)
Can't create a custom web part (real easy to retrieve the user
information in the tool pane).
Can't change server configuration to enable serverState
(don't have access to the server)
Links generated will be over 260 characters, so I can't use the
links
web part.
User specific data is not sensitive data, others could see this
information if they had to (thinking of a SP List)
Does anyone know of an easy way to embed user information into a team
site somewhere?

Thanks in advance.
Tom



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