Getting webparts to show up in different areas

[Soiboy]

I have a document library under Home and want it to also show up in another area. I change the settings>location to include not only home but the other area, click ok, and it stays only available in home. Same for a message board, will not show up in another area.
After I save these changes, it reverts to only home.

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

Do you mean it will not work when you want to add a listing to it on multiple areas? I am not sure that you can actually display it as a "webpart" on more than one place. What you can do is to add a listing to the Document Library to sub areas and it will show up as a link.



Regards,
Thomas

 

[Soiboy]

This is what I am doing.
I add a web part via the interface: edit page> modify shared page> add web part> browse
I am in a subarea called engineering lets say.
I add a document library using this technique.
I then edit the settings of this document library and choose select a portal area.
The engineering subarea of course is already checked. I also check 'home' and I can add this document library shows up to both the home area and the engineering subarea.

If I create a document library in the home area and try to also add it to a subarea using the same technique it fails. It gives no error, it just cannot be added to the subarea and remains unchecked when I go to edit settings again.

This is true for discussions, document libraries etc.

Is there a fix or workaround for this bug?

 

[Thomas2000]

Hi,

I tried what you did on one of my portals.

Added a document library (webpart) on the Home area, modified settings and columns chosed to also display the listing in a sub-area and just to make it easy it is available for the Audience All Portal Users. When I go to the subarea I do have a listing to the document library there which I made available in the Links for you and audience is All Portal Users.

I also did it the other way around and added a document library to a sub-area and then I chosed to also display a listing to it on the Home area page it it shows up there aswell (as a listing).

Have you checked so that the listing you want to appear on the subarea is visible for the Audience All portal users or any other audience you might have created and want it to be displayed for them.

Too bad you can't really add screenshots here would be easier to show what it looks like than trying to explain it in words.

You can move around the listings on your portal by going to manage Portal Site link, there you will get a kind of Map structure where you can see where all listings are displayed and you can move them around.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[Thomas2000]

Hi again,

I just thought of another thing. As you know there are several webparts that you can "physically" add to multiple areas (like the Links for You, News For You webpart etc) and It does seem like those default webparts are handled in a different way than if you create your own for example Document Library webpart. Those seem to be area specific and only adding listing to other areas will work...at least that works on my portal.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[Soiboy]

Thanks, Thomas,
I will try some of your suggestions and let you know.

And yeah, pictures are pretty standard fare in message boards these days.
Maybe we should start our own?