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15 Jan, 2009

How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint  Bookmark and Share

While browsing End User SharePoint Forums I stumbled upon an interesting questions from idosp:

How does one go about setting up an Archiving “list” on a SharePoint OOB blog? Where all the Nov 2008 entries display? Dec 2008? Jan 2009, etc.? Can this be done with OOB?

Indeed, most blog engines allow you to display a list of blog posts grouped by month. Unfortunately out of the box SharePoint blog sites do not give you that ability. Here is a simple solution (no codding required :) ) on how to overcome that limitation.

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1 | Top Blogger Web Part – No code required | End User SharePoint

May 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

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[...] I took a different path and created a "non-code“ required web part to solve this. This web part is similar to my Blog Posts Archive web part. [...]

2 | Dirty secrets of Data View Web Part revealed - Sharepoint Use Cases - SharePoint Blogs / SharePoint University

June 4th, 2009 at 8:19 am

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[...] about Data View Web Part and there are numerous solutions I posted here which were created with it (Blog archive | SharePoint Lists and Libraries, Outlook Style | KPIs), however Laura taught me something new. [...]

3 | Mats

June 17th, 2009 at 6:58 am

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Hi,
Can’t get this one to work out as I expect it to….

I get:

“Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator.”

Any suggestions?

Br
Mats

4 | Toni Frankola

June 17th, 2009 at 7:00 am

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Mats, are you using default English language SharePoint blog site or something else?

5 | Attiq

July 16th, 2009 at 7:52 am

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Hi
I am getting exact same error as Mats. I am using default English Template.
I see that we can edit the XSL in property panel but not sure what to change.
Any Suggestion please ?
Thanks
Attiq

6 | Toni Frankola

July 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm

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@Attiq: Can you save your site as template (.stp) and email it to my-firstname.my-lastname@gmail.com?

7 | ChrisBaird

August 28th, 2009 at 10:33 am

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Toni: Any tips on how to add a 2nd filter value? I would like to only show the number of approved blog posts per month (vs all posts, as is the default for the webpart).

8 | Toni Frankola

August 28th, 2009 at 11:23 am

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Not a problem. This is a standard Data View Web part.

Add this one to your page and then learn more about creating custom filters for it:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101030411033.aspx

9 | Chrisbaird

August 28th, 2009 at 11:36 am

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That makes sense — how about when you can’t use sharepoint designer? I’m forced to edit solely through the browser :(

10 | Toni Frankola

August 28th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

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You cannot do it without SPD. The only option would be to hire someone to do it for you.

11 | chrisbaird

August 31st, 2009 at 9:39 am

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Turns out I can use SPD — I’ve tried adding a simple Approval Status = Approved filter through the Common Data View Tasks menu. Once added, it kills the webpart — I get data view error from the server in SPD’s Design view.

12 | Toni Frankola

October 11th, 2009 at 11:22 am

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@Chris: Can you post the actual error… you are probably misusing a column or something.

13 | Dirty secrets of Data View Web Part revealed | SharePoint Use Cases

April 12th, 2010 at 4:57 am

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[...] about Data View Web Part and there are numerous solutions I posted here which were created with it (Blog archive | SharePoint Lists and Libraries, Outlook Style | KPIs), however Laura taught me something [...]

14 | Top Blogger Web Part – No code required | SharePoint Use Cases

April 12th, 2010 at 4:57 am

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[...] and created a “non-code“ required web part to solve this. This web part is similar to my Blog Posts Archive web part. Check these [...]

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