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Editing Data View Web Parts

Editing Data View Web Parts - SharePoint Tutorial

From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Creating Data-Driven Web Pages

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Editing Data View Web Parts

So I'm going to take this standard XsltListViewWebPart and do some customization of it. When you're editing a page in SharePoint Designer, like in most web-editing tools, it's very sensitive to what you have selected in the document and where your cursor is. And if I want to customize the web part that's down here, I want to make sure that my cursor is not positioned in some other section. Now if you've done any web page editing, you might be used to using an environment with a Properties pane or Properties panel, and we have one here in SharePoint Designer. If I go to the View section of the ribbon, I can open it up by selecting the Task Panes section, which is basically all the properties panels that can show up on the right-hand side, and I'll select Tag Properties. Right now, I am showing Data Source Details as well. I'm going to close that because we don't need it right now. So this is the view you'd often see in a lot of web-editing environments and as you click around, what you…

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