No-code solution for calendar view of SharePoint news items

Question

MOSS provides you an excellent option to create a "news" site in your portal. It adds some "Archive" functionality, but it is very limited - a list of all articles published in that particular site.

My users would like to see something better, a real archive of published articles, browsable by publishing date.

What I've tried so far, is creating a "Calendar" view in the http://portal/publishingsite/pages/ library. It works, but when you click a link in this calendar, it opens the "dispform.aspx?ID=123", not "mytestpage.aspx".

Is it possible to create a custom page using SharePoint designer where I can put a calendar (best if it can be browsed as easy as a typical calendar view in a list) and that links to pages in "page display mode" not in "SharePoint list item display mode"?

Maybe you have seen an easy-to-install and easy-to-maintain page archive feature for MOSS?

Answer 1

Hy, have you tried one of the templates available at:
Microsoft SharePoint templates

There i saw some pretty good calendar implementations.
(Try the TimeCard Registration).

I'm not sore if it's reusable,but i'm confident that it's a good starting point.

Good luck :)

Answer 2

Check this out:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/179c74de-525c-4236-83cf-91861e9a7aee

It looks a little danger-esque to modifying MS template files in the 12 hive, but you can clearly see a 'DataItem.DisplayFormUrl' in...

<a onfocus="OnLink(this)"
  href="<%# SPHttpUtility.HtmlUrlAttributeEncode(DataBinder.Eval(Container,"DataItem.DisplayFormUrl",""))%>

Change that and you may be good to go.

You could also perhaps consider customizing dispform.aspx:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/sharepointdesigner/HA101191111033.aspx

I suspect, however, that - if you only want to do this with Designer - it's not gonna fly :(

You could look into XSLT for a Data View... but unless you're willing to dish out a little cheddar I don't think you'll find something which is up-to-par with the Calendar view.