Display Widgets from another page

What you described should work just fine, the part that most people struggle with is creating templates that work properly with inheritance. Another approach is to store all your content in one node in the content tree and simply place webparts on a page template to get that data and display it on many pages.

An example would be you have a list of events. Each event can be categorized into 1 or many categories. They are located in /Events. Then you have your pages. You can place a webpart on that page template and capture all the events that have the same category as the current document by specifying a WHERE clause in the webpart.

Hi Brenden,

it doesn't seems to work, if the web part zone is inside a user control used in the template. AND if I activate content inheritance the content will be displayed via the zonePagePlaceholder.

Maybe I miss an configuration? Any other hint?

Thanks, Juergen

Have you read the docs on content inheritance and how it all works? Its based on templates, child templates and such.

Many Thanks, I already know that documentation. Inheritance solves only a small part of my problem.

I have to create a fly-out menu which shows the second level menu and some content inside every fly-out. We have six main menu items with six fly-outs. Each fly-out has a web part zone, a user control, whatever to show the web parts from another page.

Now I need a solution to edit the contents inside the fly-outs. My first try was content inheritance, which doesn't work, maybe because i placed the web part zone inside a user control. I also researched for a macro or a user control to collect and display the contents from another page. But I didn't find a solution. What I'm currently doing is working which special document types placing them in the tree to define the contents instead of web parts, but this solution is very complex for the users and and the developers.