In this article we explore XSLTListViewWebpart provided in SharePoint 2010. It handles view rendering for lists that can document libraries as well as announcements. As the name suggests, it uses a XSLT, in other words it transforms for HTML rendering. The XML data is obtained by a Query and XmlDefinition, as explained later, that is converted into HTML using XSLT. It, by default, applies styles (View Styles) as provided by SharePoint.

The following are the few properties that must be considered when using this webpart:

  • WebId
  • ListId, ListName
  • ViewGuid (because of this and SPD, I spent many a sleepless night)
  • RenderContext of a toolbar (Reflection help is needed to set it, another factor for sleepless night :))
  • XmlDefinition and XmlDefinitionLink
  • Xsl and XslLink
  • AsyncRefresh
  • DisableColumnFiltering
  • EnableSorting
  • ChromeType
  • AutoRefresh
  • AllowPaging, PageSize
  • DisplayName, DisplayTitle
  • ShowToolbarWithRibbon
  • SuppressWebPartChrome

You can either use SharepoingDesigner (SPD) or your skill :) to define the XsltListViewWebPart definition declaratively.

Attributes set on the element WebPartPages:XsltListViewWebPart like AutoRefresh, AsyncRefresh, AllowEdit, AllowConnect, AllowHide, SuppressWebPartChrome, UseSQLDataSourcePaging, Title, AllowMinimize and ListUrl

<table style="width: 100%">

<tr>

<td class="ms-descriptiontext" valign="top">

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%">

<tbody>

<tr>

<td style="padding-top: 4px" class="ms-sectionheader" height="22" valign="top">

<h3 class="ms-standardheader ms-inputformheader">

Employee Information

</h3>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="ms-descriptiontext ms-inputformdescription">

Employee Name and Role/Designation .

</td>

<td>

<img alt="" src="/_layouts/images/blank.gif" width="8" height="1">

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>

<img alt="" src="/_layouts/images/blank.gif" width="150" height="19">

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

</td>

<td class="ms-authoringcontrols ms-inputformcontrols" valign="top" align="left">

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">

<tbody>

<tr>

<td class="ms-authoringcontrols">

<table class="ms-authoringcontrols" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">

<tbody>

<!-- End Right_Text -->

<tr>

<td class="ms-authoringcontrols" width="99%">

<asp:Panel ID="RowLevel_list1" runat="server" Direction="LeftToRight" HorizontalAlign="Left"

ScrollBars="Auto" Wrap="False">

</asp:Panel>

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

Code

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(SPContext.Current.Web.Url.ToString()))

{

using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())

{

SPList list = web.Lists["Tracker"];

XsltListViewWebPart XsltListViewWebPart1 = new XsltListViewWebPart();

XsltListViewWebPart1.ListId = list.ID;

SPView lstview = list.DefaultView;

XsltListViewWebPart1.Toolbar = "";

StringBuilder xml = new StringBuilder();

xml.Append("<View Name='" + list.DefaultView.ID.ToString("B").ToString().ToUpper(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) + "' TabularView='FALSE' MobileView='TRUE' Type='HTML' Hidden='TRUE' DisplayName='' Url='" + Request.Url.ToString() + "' Level='1' BaseViewID='1' ContentTypeID='0x' ImageUrl='/_layouts/images/generic.png'>");

xml.Append("<Query><OrderBy><FieldRef Name='ID'/></OrderBy></Query>");

xml.Append("<ViewFields> <FieldRef Name='LinkTitle'/><FieldRef Name='Edit'/><FieldRef Name='Role'/></ViewFields>");

xml.Append("<RowLimit Paged='TRUE'>20</RowLimit>");

xml.Append("<Aggregations Value='Off'/>");

xml.Append("<Toolbar Type='None'/></View>");

XsltListViewWebPart1.XmlDefinition = xml.ToString();//lstview.GetViewXml();

XsltListViewWebPart1.AllowClose = false;

XsltListViewWebPart1.AllowConnect = false;

XsltListViewWebPart1.AllowEdit = false;

XsltListViewWebPart1.AllowHide = false;

XsltListViewWebPart1.AllowMinimize = false;

XsltListViewWebPart1.AllowZoneChange = false;

XsltListViewWebPart1.ChromeType = PartChromeType.Default;

RowLevel_list1.Controls.Add(XsltListViewWebPart1);

}

}


Shown below is the XsltListViewWebPart Web Part that lists employees.

Web Part lists