All Things Code: October 2013

A recent project involved adding the same navigation links to a couple of SharePoint blog sites. The navigation links must appear on the default.aspx, categories.aspx and post.aspx pages. Using a custom list in the parent site, we created a web part using SP Designer. Now, if we need another navigation web part for another set of blogs, we can simply export the web part and make the necessary changes. Below is the content of web part. Included is the xml definition of the view as well as the xsl to create the links.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<webParts>
<webPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v3">
  <metaData>
   <type name="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.XsltListViewWebPart, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" />
   <importErrorMessage>Cannot import this Web Part.</importErrorMessage>
  </metaData>
  <data>
   <properties>
    <property name="InitialAsyncDataFetch" type="bool">False</property>
    <property name="ChromeType" type="chrometype">None</property>
    <property name="Title" type="string" />
    <property name="Height" type="string" />
    <property name="CacheXslStorage" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="XslLink" type="string" null="true" />
    <property name="AllowZoneChange" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="AllowEdit" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="XmlDefinitionLink" type="string" />
    <property name="DataFields" type="string" />
    <property name="Hidden" type="bool">False</property>
    <property name="ListName" type="string">{37683D39-B11D-4E11-8B1C-8C5421EDB458}</property>
    <property name="NoDefaultStyle" type="string">TRUE</property>
    <property name="ListDisplayName" type="string" null="true" />
    <property name="AutoRefresh" type="bool">False</property>
    <property name="ViewFlag" type="string">8388621</property>
    <property name="AutoRefreshInterval" type="int">60</property>
    <property name="AllowConnect" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="Description" type="string" />
    <property name="AllowClose" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="ShowWithSampleData" type="bool">False</property>
    <property name="ParameterBindings" type="string"></property>
    <property name="EnableOriginalValue" type="bool">False</property>
    <property name="CacheXslTimeOut" type="int">86400</property>
    <property name="WebId" type="System.Guid, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089">ef069fb2-2b0b-4c00-ad1f-231d5485f963</property>
    <property name="ListUrl" type="string" null="true" />
    <property name="DataSourceID" type="string" />
    <property name="FireInitialRow" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="ManualRefresh" type="bool">False</property>
    <property name="ViewFlags" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.SPViewFlags, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c">Html, TabularView, Hidden, Mobile</property>
    <property name="ChromeState" type="chromestate">Normal</property>
    <property name="AllowHide" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="PageSize" type="int">-1</property>
    <property name="SampleData" type="string" null="true" />
    <property name="BaseXsltHashKey" type="string">/_layouts/xsl/vwstyles.xsl;#12/13/2011 02:25:36;#0;#/_layouts/xsl/fldtypes.xsl;#03/26/2010 21:24:40;#0;#/_layouts/xsl/fldtypes_Ratings.xsl;#03/14/2012 11:19:12;#0;#/_layouts/xsl/fldtypes_docicon.xsl;#09/07/2011 11:41:41;#0;# 1 100 14.0.6120.5000</property>
    <property name="AsyncRefresh" type="bool">False</property>
    <property name="HelpMode" type="helpmode">Modeless</property>
    <property name="ListId" type="System.Guid, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089">37683d39-b11d-4e11-8b1c-8c5421edb458</property>
    <property name="DataSourceMode" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPDataSourceMode, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c">List</property>
    <property name="AllowMinimize" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="TitleUrl" type="string">/XXXXX/XXX/Lists/Navigation</property>
    <property name="CatalogIconImageUrl" type="string" />
    <property name="DataSourcesString" type="string" />
    <property name="PageType" type="Microsoft.SharePoint.PAGETYPE, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c">PAGE_NORMALVIEW</property>
    <property name="DisplayName" type="string">All Items</property>
    <property name="UseSQLDataSourcePaging" type="bool">True</property>
    <property name="Width" type="string" />
    <property name="ExportMode" type="exportmode">All</property>
    <property name="Direction" type="direction">NotSet</property>
    <property name="ViewContentTypeId" type="string">0x</property>
    <property name="HelpUrl" type="string" />
    <property name="XmlDefinition" type="string">
    <View Name="{E9A835C7-4605-41BD-AA5E-50D9799DE2C9}" MobileView="TRUE" Type="HTML" Hidden="TRUE" DisplayName="All Items" Url="/academic-affairs/AFA/SitePages/Untitled_12.aspx" Level="1" BaseViewID="1" ContentTypeID="0x" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/generic.png">
     <Query/>
     <ViewFields>
      <FieldRef Name="LinkTitle"/>
      <FieldRef Name="URL"/>
      <FieldRef Name="Title" Explicit="TRUE"/>
     </ViewFields>
     </View>
    </property>
    <property name="Xsl" type="string">
    <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl msxsl ddwrt" xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime" xmlns:asp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20" xmlns:__designer="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/designer" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:SharePoint="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" xmlns:ddwrt2="urn:frontpage:internal" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" ddwrt:ghost="show_all">
    <xsl:template match="dsQueryResponse" xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:asp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20" xmlns:__designer="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/designer" xmlns:SharePoint="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" ddwrt:ghost="" xmlns:ddwrt2="urn:frontpage:internal" xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime">
     <div class="AFANavigation"><xsl:apply-templates select="/dsQueryResponse/Rows/Row"/></div>
    </xsl:template>
       <xsl:template match="Row">
      <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="substring(@URL,2,3) = 'a h'">
        <xsl:variable name="link" select="substring-after(substring-before(@URL,'&lt;/a&gt;'),'&gt;')"/>
        <div><a href="{$link}"><xsl:value-of select="@Title"/></a></div>
       </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
       <div><a href="{@URL}"><xsl:value-of select="@Title"/></a></div>
      </xsl:otherwise>
     </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:template>
    </xsl:stylesheet>
    </property>

    <property name="Default" type="string">FALSE</property>
    <property name="TitleIconImageUrl" type="string" />
    <property name="MissingAssembly" type="string">Cannot import this Web Part.</property>
    <property name="SelectParameters" type="string" />
   </properties>
  </data>
</webPart>
</webParts>

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