Data redundancy, can I share source data.

[hamking01]

I'm trying to create a contact list(1) of all employees. Each department's team site also wants a contact list(2) but only of department members. If I add the contact list(1) to the department it'll display all employees. I can create a contact list(2) of dept. members, but this would be very redundant and hard to manage. Can I create a master list that'll be displayed on company page, and dept. pages retrieving data from master list but sorting out pertinent info. This would seem like a required function, but I can't figure out how to do it. Could anyone help? Thanks

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

Well via Frontpage you can link lists on different sites, and you might be able to use views and filters on the Dept. level site (list).

Check out this blog

http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault/archive/2004/08/08/2238.aspx

it has links to lots of SharePoint resources, you might be able to find some useful links there.

Regards,
Thomas