How to add a list views web part to a page?

Hello,
I have web parts on a page that are "List Views". The show links as menu from a custom list of links on a page. However, I don't know how the developer added them to page and how they work. I like to add other list views
that list links from lists.
Paul

Hi,
Your query is to configure a webpart in a page which will display all the links to lists (within the site)? If this is the requirement you can configure a dataformwebpart and configure the Data
Source Mode as CrossList.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks!

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Updating List View Web Part property in page

I have a List View web part (In the page > Add web part > App > document library name). I need to update the TitleUrl property of this web part through C# code.
The SaveChanges() method below works for my visual web parts, but not for the List view webpart. I get an error saying: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation
webpartManager = myPage.GetLimitedWebPartManager(System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PersonalizationScope.Shared);webPart.TitleUrl = titleURL;webpartManager.SaveChanges(webPart);
I did a casting as below
XsltListViewWebPart listViewWebPart = (XsltListViewWebPart)webPart;listViewWebPart.TitleUrl = titleURL;webpartManager.SaveChanges(listViewWebPart);
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An exception of type 'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' occurred in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll but was not handled in user code
The error description is as below
> at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[]
> arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor) at
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> System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags
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> index) at
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Hi Ahamed,
According to your description, there is an issue when you try to update the TitleUrl property of a List View Web Part.
For a better troubleshooting, I suggest you do as the followings:
1. Debug your code step by step and make sure every object and variable is valid.
2. Here is a code snippet about update web part property programmatically:
SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;
SPFile file = web.GetFile(HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString());
SPLimitedWebPartManager manager = file.GetLimitedWebPartManager(PersonalizationScope.User);
System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart webPart = manager.WebParts[this.ID];
((UpdateMeWebPart)webPart).Message = “Test”;
try
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
manager.SaveChanges(webPart);
finally
web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = false;
Here is a detailed article for your reference:
http://jeremyknight.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/programmatically-update-web-part-properties/
Best Regards
Zhengyu Guo
TechNet Community Support

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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to add the Note board web part to a page with PowerShell.
The name of the Note Board web part is SocialCommentWebPart.
I recommend to use the powershell code below:
$pageUrl="http://sitename/SitePages/test.aspx"
$SiteURL="http://sitename"
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$web=$site.OpenWeb()
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Best Regards,
Linda Li
Linda Li
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I am experiencing an usual issue in our development SharePoint 2013 environment. I have been troubleshooting it for a couple hours, so thought it is time to post a message here.
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Ok, I have come up with a solution. I edited the XSLT for the web part on the page. I did the following:
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2.   Create the library outside of the variants.
3.   Add all the columns you require for the library. It is very important all the columns are there before you move on.
4.   Create a French and English view.
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7.      Edit the page in SharePoint Designer 2010.
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Hi,
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<File Url="FullPageLayout\XXXFullPageLayout.aspx" Name="Default.aspx" Type="GhostableInLibrary" IgnoreIfAlreadyExists="FALSE" ReplaceContent="TRUE" Level="Published">
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<![CDATA[
<WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2">
<Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
<TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ListViewWebPart</TypeName>
<Title>Latest News</Title>
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</WebPart>
]]>
</View>
For simplicity, let's assume that we are working with instances of OOB list definitions, such as Announcements or Document Library. So far so good. And now the question...
In my understanding if you want to do something as simple as limiting the number of items returned, or specifying a custom view criteria (filter/sorting/grouping, whatever) or just remove the toolbar, you have to go as far as provisioning an ENTIRE LIST
DEFINITION, defining your custom View in it (which declares the toolbar type, row limit and View) and then reference this new View by its BaseViewID. Is that correct?
Is there really no other, simpler way, of 'provisioning' and referencing a new view, to an existing list instance, along with the
Module -> File -> View element? I see a couple of logical options:
1) I would imagine such metadata could be stored in the web part and not the actual list. i.e. the web parts sends a CAML query to the list, based on the View metadata stored in it.
2) As we know, when you Edit page and configure the View for a List View Web Part on the page, that view is stored as a new hidden view in the actual list (i.e. if you have two list view web parts that reference that list, you will have two additional hidden
views). Then why can't we provision such (hidden) view along with the List View WebPart when we declare it and create the page? It could be created on first access of the page, or during the page
provisioning.
Another option could be the XmlDefinition property of the XsltListViewWebPart, but
apparently it is being ignored. I have also tried using the 'CustomSchema' property of the ListInstance, but it totally makes no sense because:
a) You cannot define more than one view in it, i.e. you have to override the OOB view that comes with the definition (lol?!)
b) You are supposed to overwrite the entire list definition, instead of simply upgrading parts of it
So, let me elaborate: if I want to have a <View> (ListViewWebPart) in my Page and this view to have some custom criteria, I have to provision an entire List Definition, is that correct? This is crazy.

Hi Hristo,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to know if you can use <view> tag in the list view web part to define the row limit of list view web part.
Per my knowledge, you can define rowlimit element in the view element for list view web part directly not necessary to modify the entire list definition.
View Element:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ms438338(v=office.15).aspx
Also, if you want to do more customization, you can still orverride the xslt.
More reference:
http://www.glynblogs.com/2011/04/overriding-the-presentation-of-an-xslt-list-view-web-part.html
http://unorig.com/2012/08/15/format-a-list-web-part-with-xslt/
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Nice, can you point me to the solution please ?
I'm trying to do this but I get an error :
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Hi,
I understand that you want to hide list view group headers, based on your description, I can suggest as follow:
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<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("HideHeaders");
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var elements = getElementsByClassName(document, "td", "ms-gb");
var elem;
for(var i=0;i<elements.length;i++)
elem = elements[i];
elem.childNodes[3].style.display = "none";
elem.removeChild(elem.childNodes[4]);
elements = getElementsByClassName(document, "td", "ms-gb2");
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elem.childNodes[3].style.display = "none";
elem.removeChild(elem.childNodes[4]);
elements = getElementsByClassName(document, "tr", "ms-viewheadertr");
for(var i=0;i<elements.length;i++)
elem = elements[i];
elem.style.display = "none";
Written by Jonathan Snook, http://www.snook.ca/jonathan
Add-ons by Robert Nyman, http://www.robertnyman.com
function getElementsByClassName(oElm, strTagName, strClassName){
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var arrReturnElements = new Array();
strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
var oElement;
for(var i=0; i<arrElements.length; i++){
oElement = arrElements[i];
if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)){
arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
return (arrReturnElements)
</script>
More information:
http://edinkapic.blogspot.in/2008/06/hiding-list-view-group-headers.html
http://spjsblog.com/2011/08/30/remove-group-label-in-grouped-list-view/
If you have any questions, please reply me.
Thanks,
Qiao Wei
TechNet Community Support

How to Hide some Rows in a List view Web Part using JavaScript ?

How to Hide some Rows in a List view Web Part using JavaScript ?

Here is the code that worked for me:
var Elements = document.querySelectorAll('div[id=WebPartWPQ3] table[class=ms-listviewtable]>tbody tr .ms-vb-lastCell.ms-cellstyle.ms-vb2')
for(var i=0, n = Elements.length; i < n; i++)
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Missing views dropdown on list view web part.

I asked this before, and it got moved to "admin" with no replies. I really need to know this. I think it may be appropriate for design and customization, because I think that's what the solution may require. It doesn't appear to be an "admin" issue.
Any help will be gratefully received. I am very frustrated by this. The "View:" dropdown list on the right side of the list view web part for my document libraries is not available. The truly weird thing is that in a few cases, it is there, but I can't tell any difference between those web parts or DLs and the ones without the views drop-down. I have defined several public views for each document library. There are no "closed" web parts on the page (which was one suggestion I got).
I can't figure out why the views menu sometimes appears and sometimes does not, when there appears to be no way to control it. Can anyone enlighten me or suggest how I can make it appear? My users are threatening to demand a separate web part for each view (there are hundreds). I may have trouble using SPD on the client's site.

That works if the Web Part was Closed, but does not help if the user deleted the Web Part.
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For this example, I am using a document library called Public Documents and my View is allitems.aspx, but this should work for any list or library.
Here are the steps for bringing back the View dropdown:
1.       Navigate to the list or library that is missing the View dropdown
2.       Go to Site Actions > Edit Page > Add a Web Part . In the Lists and Libraries section, check the box next to the Public Documents library and click the Add button.
3.       Within the new Web Part, go to edit > Modify Shared Web Part and change the Toolbar Type to “Full Toolbar”. Click the OK button.
4.       Click the link to Exit Edit Mode and you should have the Full Toolbar for the list/library displayed, but it is still missing the View dropdown menu.
5.       Go to Settings > Create View .
6.       Choose Standard View .
7.       Name the view, check the “Make this the default view” box, select the columns to include, and click the OK button.
8.       Voila, the View dropdown menu is back on the site.
9.       To completely clean it up, for a list, open in SharePoint Designer and delete the allitems.aspx view from the Forms folder. For a library, you can go to the Actions menu and select Open with Windows Explorer . Open the Forms folder (you may need to show hidden files to see this folder) and delete the allitems.aspx view. If you do not have access to SharePoint Designer and you are working in a list, you will need to delete the link on the Quick Launch and add again to point to your new view name.
10.   If the View you deleted was the default for the list or library, it may remove the link from the Quick Launch. It can be added again by going to View All Site Content , selecting the appropriate list or library, going into its Settings menu, and modifying the Title, description and navigation settings to show on the Quick Launch.

ECT List View Web Part displaying incorrect data when View Item

I have a External Content Type which pulls data from a stored procedure. The stored procedure has 1 parameter - the users logon id. The data retrieved is a list of meetings with start date time, end date time, location, subject, etc. From this ECT there
is an External List which displays all data correctly.
There is 2 pages within the site and its subsites that have list view web parts which display a subset of the info from the external list. When the user clicks a specific meeting to display the complete info on the meeting, the wrong information is displayed,
it always displays the info for the 1st meeting in the list. So, I displayed the BDC Identity field on the list and this field is identical for all the rows since the key for the ECT is the username and hence not unique.
I've spent all day trying to finding a way to resolve this and have come up empty. I've tried to find a way to make the BDC Identity field to be unique, using Business Data View web part, Data View web part, and nothing.
The user needs to be able to click the My Meetings url header on the above pages to see a full list of their meetings so I need the external list. Any ideas how to make the BDC Identity field unique or how to get the View Item on the List View web part to
work correctly?

Sorry, I do not understand what you mean.
I resolved the non unique BDC Identity problem by simply adding the row # to the Username in the stored procedure so the BDC Identity fields on the list records are now unique (although they're really long ie. __bk44003500070057003700560027000200140037003700f600360096001600470056003300,
__bk44003500070057003700560027000200140037003700f600360096001600470056004300 etc). Not sure how it generates the BDC Identity?
I still see the same behaviour when you select a meeting to display the details. It always displays the 1st record in the list.
I added code to the DispForm to display the ID when the page loads and the BDC Identity from the record and verfied that they do match.
I can add another parameter to the stored procedure and just return the row # in that field. What do you mean by make the identifire as Identity in operations?

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