I want to get the list to show items that by clicking on will open and was expecting to see some sort of option available in the webpart for enabling this but cannot.  Does this have to be coded in XSLT or am I missing something obvious ?

Steve, the webpart displays the content of the view who's URL you specified. If you want other fields to display, you can just change the settings of the view, since that's possible with standard SharePoint functionality. Only for unsupported things (like the snooker-balls in my other article), you need to create your own XSLT.

I think you need to modify the view, so that is displays the field with a link to the item. This is usually only possible for one field of the list (like the "Title"-column).

Robert,

Here's what I'm trying to do... I'm trying to re-use your functionality in a connected web part.  In other words, one list contains URLs and your web part will render the list referenced in the other.

I have looked at the code in the .NET Reflector and there's one piece that doesn't come thru (it's in the SPUtil.GetSPListItemValueParts).  It's one of those <PrivateImplementationDetails> things.  Is it possible for you to provide that for us or could you provider the connected functionality?

Excellent web part. We have a great many uses for it here. We have run into one hurdle however that I was hoping you could get us over. In our environment we require client certificate in IIS. This webpart, along with many other things here, won't work with client cert it seems. I was wondering if there was a way around this? Thanks!

Robert,

After looking a bit more into the code, it looks like this PrivateImplementation has something to do with changing the FieldType into an integer.  

So, I guess, if you have a mapping of field types to integers, that would be perfect.

Thanks again

Shane

In terms of security authentication, we are constantly getting authentication errors when we try to display the contents from one SharePoint Portal Area list (or Document Library) within another SharePoint Portal Server Area.  The problem does not occur when you have the FlexListViewer sitting on a SharePoint Portal Server area page, that is pulling information from a WSS top level site collection.  I assume this is because your code is based purely on WSS security and not portal security?  I found that it quickly locked out my account because it was unable to authenticate, even though a am a local administrator on the box and a SharePoint administrator.  Is it a kerberos issue?  (I have a single portal server with SQL 2005 installed on the same box).

Will there be a fix for this issue?

I am getting a "System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object"-errormessage. This only occurs when a column in one of the list items is blank. If all columns have an entry, it works fine.

I am using a milestone schedule which has a draft, review and final column. In some cases there is only a final in which case draft and review are blank. This throws the exception; when I put dates in the draft and review columns it works,

Hello Bill. We will fix this in a future version (SharePoint 2007 only!). Can't really tell when we have the time though... :(

Thanks...... and thank you for the fine work.

Hi,

I guess I'm trying to use your web part ifor something it wasn't intended for, however I was wondering if it can be made to work for document libraries with sub folders. I'm finding that although I can display the list of documents, the href which is created does not include the sub folder within this link (i.e. ows_FileRef) and therefore fails to open.

Thanks for your help.

P.S. Works great for normal lists and very much appreciated

You are correct: the webpart was never designed to be used with document libraries. However, in some cases it may work. You use subfolders, which are indeed not supported.

By the way: there are several articles that advice - instead of using subfolders - to use properties (columns) to group files or to use more than one document library). You have to decide for yourself whether that's an alternative. However, we have no plans to enhance the document library support for FlexListViewer...

I think it's better to use the DataForm WebPart.

This Webpart you can find only in the SharePoint Designer. For the description follow the link below.

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mypoint/archive/2006/12/08/16743.aspx

sub zero,

Apart from the fact this is about the Sharepoint 2003 version of the FlexListViewer, we acknowledge in this posting that using the dataview webpart (the predecessor of the dataform webpart) is an option.

However, in your posting you need about 2 printed pages to describe how to use this dataform webpart, AND you need to buy a license in order to use Sharepoint Designer.

We feel using the FlexlistViewer can make a big difference, since you do not need to use Frontpage or Sharepoint Designer AND it gives you an out of the box stylesheet to display lists on other sites.

***sidenote***

Perhaps you can translate your posting from german to english? Since this is an english related blog a lot of our viewers are from english-speaking countries and I do think they can / will have some trouble understanding your posting.

What are the licensing requirements for this Web part?

djb,

You can use this webpart freely. However if you want to use it in a commercial software solution, please contact us through the contact form.

Hi,

this Webpart is very useful - thank you. But in some columns, like "people and groups" the content isn't displayed properly. For example: If the list field contains usernames, the FlexListViewer shows something like 2,#username. Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks for the help!

Thanks for this useful web part.

I am struggling to display a list with custom html rendering.

Has anyone tried to use custom xslt file yet?

Your help would be appreciated. Thanks!

After upgrading SPS2003 with SP3 we have a problem with the flexlistviewer.

The problem is that after a few minutes the session closed and a error displayed.

Is this a known problem and can it be solved ?

How difficult would it be to adapt this functionality to a discussion board?  I tried out-of-the-box and got the following error:

Error occurred: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).

Details: System.FormatException: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx). at System.Guid..ctor(String g) at Core.SPListUtil.GetSPListItemValueParts(SPView view, ListViewField listViewField, SPField field, Int32 itemId, Object fieldValue) at Core.SPListUtil.GenerateListViewObjectModel(SPView view) at FlexListViewerMOSS.FlexListViewer.RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter output)

at System.Guid..ctor(String g) at Core.SPListUtil.GetSPListItemValueParts(SPView view, ListViewField listViewField, SPField field, Int32 itemId, Object fieldValue) at Core.SPListUtil.GenerateListViewObjectModel(SPView view) at FlexListViewerMOSS.FlexListViewer.RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter output)

Rob,

You can download the sources at http://www.codeplex.com/isdemos.

If you come up with a solution, feel free to send it to me and I'll spread it through the community :)

Regards,

Bart

Bart:

Thanks.  I was able to make some changes to your code and I got it working.  I'd be happy to share - just let me know the best way to get the files to you.

Thank you for a fantastic webpart.

Hi Bart & Rob,

Has this fixed been rolled into a FlexListViewer release?  If not, Rob are you able to supply the code changes necessary?

Thanks,

Chris

Chris, the sources are no longer maintained by us.

I don't think Rob merged his changes into the codebase on codeplex, so he will need to supply them to you. (if he wants to share it).

Hello

I am tryint to access site from another server which is in my local domain, it is giving me following error, please advise

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Cannot access the view of the list. Are you authorized?

Details: The Web application at http://portal/Lists/Issues List/AllItems.aspx could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application.

Failed to get value of the "Attachments" column from the "Attachments" field type control.  See details in log. Exception message: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx)..

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Failed to get value of the "Attachments" column from the "Attachments" field type control.  See details in log. Exception message: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx)..

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.  

Stack Trace:

[SPException: Failed to get value of the "Attachments" column from the "Attachments" field type control.  See details in log. Exception message: Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx)..]

  Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.BaseFieldControl.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +1661

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

  System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1061

antonio,

What's your question?

Bart

Antonio, you error occurs when you have another webpart (hidden or otherwise) on your page. To fix the "Failed to get value of the "Attachments" column from the "Attachments" field type" error, you need to hide the other "part1" span in the other webparts.

At the bottom of page, simply add this script

var y = document.getElementById('WebPartWPQ2'), child;

  while(child=y.firstChild)

{

   y.removeChild(child);

}

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Sorry I haven't checked back on this site in some time.  I went ahead and uploaded the code changes I made as a patch on the codeplex site (http://www.codeplex.com/ISDemos/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx) - not sure if that was the right way to do it or not.  Anyway, it is currently being evaluated.  I'd be happy to post the code somewhere else if there is a better place.

Thanx Hitender, your code helped me a fixen a poorly post.aspx page.

Is the FlexListViewer-webpart still available?  If so where can I download it from?

thanks,

jurg

Hi, I have to modify a property of the flexlistviewer dinamically, any ideas of how to do that?

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Awesome web part!

Hello,

thanks for the post.

I'm using this FlexListViewer-webpart.

and an facing a problem which I need to ask you.

its about the user rights! the admin and the users with reading rights can have access to my FlexListViewer-webpart but if a user has no right to read the content of FlexListViewer-webpart the page where this web part is located disapears!!

when I remove the web part I have access to the page but not with having the web part on the page.

Do you have any idea or solution for this????

Thanks a lot

i am not able to display a url filed in the webpart. it gives an "unable to cast system.string" error.