Sharepoint: How do I filter a document library view to show the contents of a subfolder?

Question

A number of business areas I work with use a folder structure to organise their Sharepoint housed documents (not ideal I know, but we're stuck with it).

I would like to use a web part page to present a number of views of their document libraries based on the subfolders that the documents appear in, but this is proving more difficult than I had thought. Has anyone overcome this problem in the past?

Answer 1

What kind of document library information do you want in the view? How do you want the user to filter the view?

In general the most powerful way of creating views in sharepoint is with the data view web part. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA100948041033.aspx

You will need Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer.

You can present different views of you folders using the data view filter and sorting controls.

You can use web part connections to filter a dataview. You can use any datasource linked to say a drop down to filter a dataview. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/177076/how-to-tie-a-dropdown-list-to-a-gridview-in-sharepoint-2007

Answer 2

Have a look at the content by type web part - http://codeplex.com/eoffice - probably the most flexible viewing web part.

Answer 3

I don't know of any out-of-the-box way to achieve this. As you say, this is not how SharePoint lists are intended used. It might work to create a custom site column displaying the path to the document, as this might be used in a filter. Have never tried it, though.

Answer 4

Hi John I am also having the sam erequirement as yours. I want to show subfolder content in Listview web part. If you found any solution please let me know.

Thanks in advance :)