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Web parts for connecting to SharePoint are stored in the Microsoft SharePoint category in the web part catalog. This includes the following four web parts:
| • | SharePoint datasource |
| • | SharePoint datagrid |
| • | SharePoint datalist |
| • | SharePoint repeater |
In this text, you can find information about the specific properties of these web parts.
SharePoint
The following properties can be configured in the SharePoint section. All the web parts listed above have these settings in common.
| • | Mode: determines what the web part will do (what data will be retrieved from the SharePoint server) and therefore which web service should be used |
| • | SharePoint site URL: URL of the SharePoint site; based on the Mode settings, the full URL of the required web service is determined by this option (it is not configured directly) |
| • | Username, password: you can specify the username and password for authentication directly in the web part properties, or you can inherit global values from Site Manager -> Settings -> Microsoft SharePoint; if you want to use Site Manager settings, leave the fields empty |
| • | List name: if you use the Display list items or Display list of pictures options, you must specify the list from which the items should be loaded; in the other two modes, you can leave it empty; please note: the field is case sensitive |
Just these settings should make the SharePoint datagrid display data or the SharePoint datasource to provide them. The other two web parts still need to have a transformation specified.
Transformations
The SharePoint datalist and SharePoint repeater need to have a transformation specified in order to display the retrieved data.
There is a number of pre-defined transformations which you can use almost right-off and of course modify them according to your needs. The transformations are stored under the SharePoint - Transformations document type (can be edited in Site Manager -> Development -> Document types). Their names are self-explaining - they correspond to what they should be used for.
The only thing you need to do to get them to work is edit (
) them and replace the sample server or field names with the real names used on the SharePoint server.
Advanced
In the Advanced section, you can specify (limit) in more detail what you want to be retrieved. These settings are applied only in the “Get list items” mode.
| • | Row limit: sets the maximum number of retrieved items |
| • | Query: filters or sorts returned items; it is similar to WHERE conditions in SQL, but it has totally different syntax based on CAML; for more information on how to construct such queries, search SharePoint documentation or use Google with keywords like “sharepoint query”. |
| • | View fields: specifies directly which fields (columns) of a SharePoint list should be retrieved |
Display
In this section, you can control how the retrieved data will be processed and displayed.
| • | Selected item querystring key name: name of the querystring key by whose presence the items will be selected |
| • | Selected item field name: allows you to specify by which field you want the items to be selected; the default approach is to select items by ID - the web part tries to get query parameters with the name specified in the Selected item querystring key property and uses its value, e.g. .aspx?id=2 will select the item with the value of its ID field equal to 2 if you entered id into the property above; note: the original field name is used here – without the ows_ prefix; the field is case sensitive |
| • | Selected item field type: provides information about the type of the ItemID field; for IDs, you should use the Counter type; for strings, use the Text type; these two should be sufficient for most cases, but you can search SharePoint documentation for other types |
| • | Use dataset: switches between the usage of ASCX and XSLT transformations; if enabled, retrieved XML is converted to a dataset which serves as a data source for a classic ASP repeater; using XSLT, you can convert XML to HTML directly |
| • | Dataset fields: if you want to use the dataset, but you don’t need all fields, you can enumerate the fields which should be included in the dataset, separated by semicolons; this property can be particularly useful if you want to use cache |
Please note: Properties in the Display section are not available for the SharePoint datagrid web part.
Debug
Because it is sometimes hard to tell or remember how SharePoint addresses list fields, we implemented the Show raw response function. It displays all retrieved SharePoint data in its raw XML form. You can look for fields which contain valuable information and can be displayed. Note: if the data is fetched from cache, the response can’t be printed.
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