Confluence SharePoint Connector 1.2 : Connecting Data in your Web Parts
This page last changed on Jun 03, 2010 by smaddox.
The Confluence SharePoint Connector supports SharePoint's web part connections for the two web parts provided by the connector:
A Simple Example using the Confluence Web PartsA simple scenario is to use a list web part that contains the space key and/or the page ID that can be passed to the Confluence web parts. Below we show an example of this scenario. When viewing the SharePoint page, the user clicks a radio button to choose an item in the list. The list web part passes the corresponding space key and/or page ID to the web parts below the list. Screenshot: Web Part Connections Take the following steps to reproduce the above scenario:
Screenshot: Making a connection Screenshot: Configuring the connection Other SharePoint Web Part ConnectionsSharePoint provides some out-of-the-box web parts that specialise in connections, such as the Filter Web Parts that come with the Enterprise version of MOSS 2007. You can configure such a filter web part to obtain the space key or page ID from different sources and provide one of them to the Confluence SharePoint Connector web parts. Here are some of the filter web parts in MOSS Enterprise 2007:
Technical note: The Confluence SharePoint Connector web parts consume the IWebPartField interface. This is one of the interfaces provided by list web parts and filter web parts. You can create your own web part and have it provide data through this interface as well. RELATED TOPICSUsing the SharePoint 2007 Web Parts ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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