Posts tagged Content

Render Content Query Web Part output as UL and OL lists rather than tables

The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is an extremely powerful web part used for displaying content that can be pulled from multiple sites. However the default HTML rendered by the CQWP is full of nasty tables. A requirement was to use the cross site querying benefits of the CQWP but to be able to render the output from it as unordered (UL) lists. Lists have a number of benefits including accessibility, semantic correctness and the ability to more easily target with CSS / javascript.

Sharepoint uses XSL style sheets to sculpt the HTML that is rendered by the Content Query Web Part (CQWP).  We therefore need the web part instance to use modified XSL style sheets.

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Sharepoint Content Deployment illustrated from start to finish

This article shows a start to finish process for setting up Content Deployment in a Sharepoint  environment. Content Deployment can be useful in a number of situations including:

  • sharing information between sharepoint applications
  • deploying from a staging environment into a live environment
  • pushing content from an internal sharepoint intranet farm to an external sharepoint internet facing farm More >