SharePoint List Web Part Shared by Sub Sites
Recently I had a requirement where a SharePoint list needs to be available for all sub sites created within a site collection. Consider a scenario where in an organization you have multiple departments having SharePoint sub site for each department and they all want to share an ‘Action Items’ list across all sub sites and main site. Requirement is as follows: • ‘Action Items’ list must be available at each sub-site level. • On the main site when a user log in, user should be able to view Action Items assigned to him. Solution: To achieve this we can have a single list created at parent level and the web part of this list can be reused in subsequent sub sites. Thus by doing this we can have all the data stored in the single list, which can be viewed differently in sub site level as per requirement. • Create a custom web part for that list view, this custom web part supports a tool bar so files can be uploaded and maintained in a single library, but viewed and maintained from any site in