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How to Display SharePoint Blog Post Archives

Toni Frankola - January 15, 2009

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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10 Responses

  • Mats June 17, 2009 at 6:58 am

    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

  • Toni Frankola June 17, 2009 at 7:00 am

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

  • Attiq July 16, 2009 at 7:52 am

    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

  • Toni Frankola July 22, 2009 at 1:12 pm

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

  • ChrisBaird August 28, 2009 at 10:33 am

    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).

  • Toni Frankola August 28, 2009 at 11:23 am

    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

  • Chrisbaird August 28, 2009 at 11:36 am

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

  • Toni Frankola August 28, 2009 at 12:11 pm

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

  • chrisbaird August 31, 2009 at 9:39 am

    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.

  • Toni Frankola October 11, 2009 at 11:22 am

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

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