Display document library from parent site

Question

Hi,

i have to programmatically create a page in different sites including a webpart linked to  the document Library "Images" of their parent site.

The problem is that this following code doesn't work :

XsltListViewWebPart ImagesListWebPart = new XsltListViewWebPart();
ImagesListWebPart.ListName = curWeb.ParentWeb.Lists["Images"].ID.ToString("B").ToUpper();
ImagesListWebPart.ViewGuid = curWeb.ParentWeb.Lists["Images"].DefaultView.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper();
ImagesListWebPart.ChromeType = System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.PartChromeType.None;
 manager.AddWebPart(ImagesListWebPart, "NorthId", 3);

Of course, i get a "List not found" Exception, because i can't refer to a list (or document library) which is contained in the parent site.

Do you have any solutions ?

Thank you

Answer 1

Hello,

You cant add the list view webpart from the parent site programatically,

this also cant possible with the UI also.

you can add the list view webpart from the current site only,

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Answer 2

Hi,

If you want to display list from parent's site, you can refer to this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SfpgoEUlIw 

You should first export the web part to the web part gallery in the top-lever site of current site collection, and then you can use the web part to the subsites under this web site collection.

If you want to complete it programmatically, you can get further help in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010programming/threads

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Xue-mei Chang

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