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Sadly there is no built in cross-site list view web part. This seems like a pretty big oversight to me, but there are 3rd party tools that do the trick. However if you want that functionality from out of the box components you have to use a content query web part. Using the content query part is fairly straightforward but there are two things you must remember: The columns you are filtering on have to be site columns If you find some of your list fields aren't available to your itemstyle.xsl, it's likely you'll have to modify the web part's xml. In order to do this complete the following steps. Click the verb menu of the web part and choose to export the part to your file system Open the .webpart file on your file system and find the 'CommonViewFields' property and add your field and its type. Delete the old webpart from your page and reimport the webpart (click Add a web part to this zone then use the advanced settings to import, the import option is in the...

I really like the XML Web Part because of its simplicity - take an XML data source, apply XSLT and have it pretty much whatever you want. I was recently asked to create a jump-to-list-item dropdown box so that you could place the web part on any page and a user could select an item from that list from a dropdown and it would take them to the list item. Here are the steps that it took to create this using the out of the box XML Web Part. Turn on anonymous access on your list ( here's how to do it ) RSS Enable your list and then view the RSS Feed (you can do this through the list's Action menu) Place an XML Web Part on your page Modify the settings of the XML web part by pasting your RSS Feed URL into the webpart's XML Source attribute. Open the XSLT editor and place the following code: <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> ...