Technical Class:

1. Deep Dive into the
Content Query Web Part
Christina Wheeler

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Content Query Web Part
– About the CQWP
– How it’s being used
– Tips & tricks
– How to Customize

4. About me…
• Christina Wheeler
• SharePoint Trainer & Consultant
• B: http://www.thesharepoint411.com
• E: cwheeler76@live.com
• L: http://www.linkedin.com/in/christinawheeler
• T: @cwheeler76

5. Publications
SharePoint 2010 Field Guide
http://bit.ly/Xoxatd
SharePoint 2013 Inside Out
http://oreil.ly/Wtk2UV

6. CQWP
• Used to aggregate content from SharePoint
lists & libraries from within the current site
collection
• Filter by content types
• Add additional columns
• Presentation styling
• Audience Targeting

7. What’s new?
• Dynamic Filters
– SharePoint 2007
• You had to subclass the CQWP to add dynamic filters
– SharePoint 2010
• Filters based off other fields on the page
• Or from a value on the QueryString

8. What’s new?
• CommonViewFields
– SharePoint 2007
• Had to export web part.
• Tweak the CommonViewFields property.
• Reimport to page to pass additional content
fields down to the XSLT for rendering.
– SharePoint 2010
• Now exposed in the CQWP’s Editor part

9. Controlling the Presentation
• Use existing Styles from the style gallery
• Levels are set using the presentation section
in the tool pane
• Create Custom XSL
– Conditional Formatting
– Key Performance Indicators
– Calendar displays

10. Building the Query

11. Building the Query
• PageFieldValue
– Token allows to specify field on page layout and
dynamically replaces value of filter with current page’s
field value
• PageQueryString
– Use URL query string for a value to use in Query
– Example
• Add Query String value to URL (&NewsCategory=Sports”)
and set the CQWP’s query to return pages where the News
Category field is equal to “Sports”

12. Building the Query

13. Building the Query
• Supports filtering over the Enterprise
Keywords columns and the “All Tags” column
– Allows to look for any
managed metadata
tag on a queried item,
regardless of
which metadata field
on the item contains
the tag.

14. Building the Query

15. Building the Query

16. Resources
• SharePoint 2010 CAML Designer
– http://karinebosch.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/caml-
designer/
• Stramit CAML Viewer
– http://spcamlviewer.codeplex.com
• Lightning Conductor Web Part
– http://www.lightningtools.com

17. QUESTIONS?

18. Contact Info
• Email
cwheeler76@live.com
• Blog
http://www.thesharepoint411.com
• Twitter
@cwheeler76
• LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/christinawheeler