How to Create a SharePoint Data View Web Part “Rollup” (Screencast)

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1. Peter Allen says:

   November 13, 2009 at 11:07 am

   Laura,

   Great solution and overview on how to do this. This will be very helpful for future projects.
2. Frank says:

   November 13, 2009 at 9:35 pm

   Laura,
   You are the ‘Queen’ of SPD. This looks great and I can use this on some of our department sites. Like to see how it would work using calendars.
3. Bhavesh says:

   November 23, 2009 at 1:25 pm

   I am rendering articles from three publishing sub sites together into one DataView Web Part thru linked resources. All three sub sites have different security.

   If user logs in with access to all three sub sites it works fine. But if user doesnt have access to any one of them, it throws following error:

   “Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource.

   I dont know if i done something wrong in the web part configuration in SP Designer or DataView is not able to handle security trimiing ? is there any way i can render security trimming thru DataView Web Part.

   Any help will be much appreciated.

   Thanks in advance.
4. Chanakya says:

   November 24, 2009 at 1:55 am

   Great collection of videos!!!
   Thanks
5. Patrik Stahl says:

   November 25, 2009 at 7:07 am

   Great screencast again Laura! Thanks.

   This would serve very well in our site but unfortunately I get a “The server returned a non-specific error when trying to get the data source. Check the format and content of your query and try again.” error. Went through your steps one by and made sure I was doing exactly the same things. Slightly frustrating.
6. Jeremy Howard says:

   December 17, 2009 at 8:50 pm

   Excellent! Thank you.

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   [...] How to Create a SharePoint Data View Web Part “Rollup” (Screencast) (End User SharePoint)A common topic that is asked about in SharePoint, is how to roll up information from sub-sites to a top level site, and just generally how to show data from one site on another site.  There are different methods and 3rd party tools that can be used, but here is a simple way to create a roll-up, that you can do yourself, using the data view web part, and a tiny bit of code.  I’m not a developer, I swear!  In this 5 minute screencast, I’ll show you the fundamentals behind creating your own rollup.  This screencast is based on my recent blog post. [...]