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SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Vanessa L. Williams
July 2012
Beginner
504 pages
10h 54m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 21

Rolling Up Content to the Home Page

In This Chapter

arrow Publishing Web Parts to the home page

arrow Showing the site hierarchy

arrow Using a Data Form Web Part to create content from scratch

I like to think of this as the “How to Get Your Data Out of SharePoint” chapter. Getting your stuff into SharePoint is pretty easy. You create a site, upload some files, enter a few tasks, and you’re on your way. Things get tricky when you want to start displaying your content outside the current site.

In this chapter, I show you how to publish Web Parts, publish content to a page, display a site’s hierarchy, create custom displays, and use the Data Form Web Part.

Publishing Web Parts

SharePoint’s publishing sites provide three very important Web Parts that display content:

check.png The Content Query Web Part allows you to display content from anywhere in your site collection; it’s useful for rolling up content to a home page or creating an archive view of content.

check.png The Summary Link Web Part allows you to manually ...

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