So, let’s imagine that you’ve built out a web site using Office SharePoint Server 2007. Your web pages, documents, and images are stored in SharePoint libraries. Content types define the schemas of discrete items, and sub-sites are used for organization and navigation. Now, the question is: how do I aggregate interesting slices of this information on places like my web site’s home page?
Well, we have a great web part for doing just that right out of the box, and it’s called the Content Query Web Part. This web part allows you to show items from your site based on a query, or set of rules, that you define. You can control what part of the site the web part looks for content, what types of items it returns, and it lets you filter, sort, and group those results. And, it lets you control how the items are rendered, so you can make these aggregations match the look and feel of the rest of your web site, both in what content is shown as well as how it’s styled.
So here’s the nice piece from George Perantatos.
Heather Solomon has a nice article building further: http://bit.ly/xfgcM
And here’s he Google salvo: http://bit.ly/dO4Tsp