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A GENDA About CQWP Examples Anatomy of a CQWP Samples Requirements & Recommendations Tips & Tricks

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S ITE C OLLECTION

CQWP

U SAGE Announcements / News Rollups Administrative Dashboard Calendar Rollups – Recurring calendar items are an issue Contracts / RFP’s Employees / Contacts Client Profiles – All contacts, contracts, RFP’s, announcements, etc related to one client or project User fields – how are they using

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A NATOMY OF CQWP Display information from all sites in site collection, One “parent” with children or just one site Can display based on list just one list

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Publishing Feature must be turned on Access Level: Must have design access to add web parts to a page Set up Content Types at the Parent Site or Content Type Hub R EQUIREMENTS & R ECOMMENDATIONS

T IPS & T RICKS Format Date: At the top: xmlns:ddwrt= In the Template: Show Rich Text: disable-output-escaping="yes" –

T IPS & T RICKS Create custom slot: If “Due Date” does not work, try “Due Date [Core Task and Issue Columns]” T IPS & T RICKS

For “Yes / No” checkbox: filter by 1 or 0 Discussion Replies: use “ItemChildCount” – ItemChildCount,Lookup Expiration date: _dlc.ExpireDate Managed Metatdata: CQWP allows single and multiple values for filter, but not grouping.

T IPS & T RICKS Quick way to render Names of Fields – Add it to the code above “Display Title” variable to see a list of fields being passed to the web part Show additional fields “CommonViewFields” Body_x0020_content, RichHTML Internal names: oint-internal-field-names-sharepoint-2010/

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