1. Content Query Web Part
March 2013
Peter Serzo
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4. Outline & Agenda Simple Query/List Outof the Two Lists box
Overrides
Outof the
box
Multiple Files
One Source
Design
XSLT
Debugging

6. CQWP – Tour of
out of the box
features

7. CQWP – Tour of out of the box
features
RSS Feeds

8. CQWP – Tour of out of the box
features
Audience Targeting

9. CQWP uses 3 xsl files:
ContentQueryMain.xsl
ItemStyle.xsl
Header.xsl

10. CQWP - Simple

11. CQWP - Simple Business Case 1:
Simplywant todisplaycontentsof Announcementson
Home Page in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

12. CQWP - Query Business Case 2: Need to pull from 2 different lists: the
Archive listand Regular list

13. CQWP - Query Overrides – Need towrite CAML
Utilize the ListsOverride Property
• <property name="ListsOverride"
type="string"><![CDATA[<Lists><List ID="3FAD4E57-6DF2-
49EF-862E-6A0A671F2772"/><List ID="9B2BAD6C-EF0F-
42B6-A5E7-90DB92EAA12C"/></Lists>]]></property>

14. CQWP – What other Overrides are important
<property name="ViewFieldsOverride" type="string"><![CDATA[<FieldRef
Name="Title" Nullable="True" Type="Text"/><FieldRef Name="PublishingRollupImage"
Nullable="True" Type="PublishingPageImage"/><FieldRef Name="FileRef"
Nullable="True" Type="Lookup"/><FieldRef Name="Headline" Nullable="True"
Type="Text"/><FieldRef Name="PublishingStartDate" Nullable="True"
Type="DateTime"/><FieldRef Name="ArticleHasComments" Nullable="True"
Type="Boolean"/>]]></property>
<property name="QueryOverride" type="string"><![CDATA[<Where><Eq><FieldRef
Name='Regional_x0020_Focus'/><Value Type='Choice'>Asia Pacific and
Africa</Value></Eq></Where><OrderBy><FieldRef Name='PublishingStartDate'
Ascending='False' /></OrderBy>]]></property>

15. Use U2U CamlDesigner for Query Overrides

16. CQWP – Multiple Files Business Case 3
Customer has several subsitesand wants to load a fileon
oneand have it show upon the others.

17. CQWP – Multiple Files Review
Create 3 Subsites 1.
2. Create Customcolumns
3. Create ContentType (Movies)
4. Create Document Library 
Add Content type
5. Add CQWP
6. Set Parameters

18. CQWP - Design Business Case 4:
Customer wants a custom design for the web part
called Feature Movie.
And they want to pick the feature movie.

19. CQWP - Design
You need SharePoint Designer!

20. Debugging XSLT
Justwriting this because I always seem to be looking for it.
This shows you what properties/fieldsand thevalues of these
fields in thexsl when you are trying to render in a content
querywebpart oradataview webpart.
<xsl:for-each
Property Name: <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
Value: <xsl:value-of select="." />
<br/>
</xsl:for-each>

21. CQWP – Limitations and SQL Server Gotchas…
• Site Collection Silos
• Large Amtof Metadata in a List
• How manyon a page
– Use Query Overrides