multiple instances of a web part in one site
I'm a newbie to the SharePoint world so if this is a really amateur question, you know why. I am currently tasked with setting up the SharePoint site for my department. I have tried to put two instances of the Links web part on the top level of my site. It will allow me to do this but when I make a change to one of the web parts the change also occurs in the other Links web part.
Is there a way to get around this? Is this behavior common to all the web parts? All level sites?
Thanks for the help
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That shouldn't be happening. How are you making changes to the web part? Are you possilby changing the list instead of the web part?
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Shane
I have been making some changes and I am now working with a pair of Contacts web parts. They have the same behavior I had with the List web part. I had one Contact web part with my team members in it. Now I want a seperate Contacts web part with cutomer contact info. When I said add web part I then selected the Contacts web part from the list.
I now see that this was wrong. I needed to create a new COntacts web part and then I add it. That appears to make them unique and I can add names as required to either list.
I guess I just needed to keep poking around. Hopefully it will all make sense before I pull what little hair I have left out.
Thanks for the response,
Larry
Larry,
You are confusing "web parts" and "lists"
A "web part" is a mechanism to display data, while a "list" is like a small database - a mechanism to store data.
What you did, is have one list (links, or contacts) and two web part displaying the same list - same data.
If you want two different sets of data - the easy way would be to create another list, and add a web part to look into that list.
Another option is to create a field in the list by the name (for example) "show in web part 1" of type boolean, and then configure the two webparts that show the same information to show based on that field (this method is known as a filter).
I hope I made my point clear. let me know if not.
I must thank Ishai for this explanation.it helped me also.
Cheers
leo
Ishai Sagi wrote: Larry,
You are confusing "web parts" and "lists"
A "web part" is a mechanism to display data, while a "list" is like a small database - a mechanism to store data.
What you did, is have one list (links, or contacts) and two web part displaying the same list - same data.
If you want two different sets of data - the easy way would be to create another list, and add a web part to look into that list.
Another option is to create a field in the list by the name (for example) "show in web part 1" of type boolean, and then configure the two webparts that show the same information to show based on that field (this method is known as a filter).
I hope I made my point clear. let me know if not.
