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Hi All,
I am using a CQWP to display selected contacts on subsites from one master contact list on the parent site. Each subsite is for a different project and is named according to the project number. In the master contact list I have a custom column called Projects
that is populated with the various different project numbers that an individual contact is involved with.
The CQWP on the subsite filters the results based on the Projects column of the master contact list. As it stands I have to manually input this job number into the CQWP's properties. What I would like to happen is for the project number (the subsite name)
to automatically be input to the filter value.
The closet I have come to reaching my desired behaviour is by adding a column to the Site Pages list called Title and setting the filter value to [PageFieldValue:Title]. This still doesn't get the automatic behaviour I require because I still have to input
the project number into the Title column manually, but it is quicker than editing the CQWP properties.
What I need to achieve is either a way of automatically populating this column with the subsite name or find a way for the CQWP to pick up the subsite name and filter its results accordingly.
I have found this article http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/Subclassing-the-Content-Query-Web-Part-Adding-Dynamic-Filtering which seems to be along the lines of what I want to achieve, but it is by no means a walk through and while I'm not completely
unfamiliar with coding, I don't know enough to implement it without help.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been working on this for weeks on and off!
Thanks in advance,
Dan

Hi,
I believe the "Description" field type is Multiple Lines of Text. Sorting doesn't allow in this field type. In order to do the sorting, you would require to create additional column like single line of text column (note that it supports only 255
chars and require to truncate the data if more than 255) and update the data using event receiver or workflow. and do the sorting with that column.
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