Use the List View Web Part
There are two ways to add a
list view web part to a page. The first is to click the Existing List
button instead of the Web Part button in the Insert ribbon. The second
is to select the Lists and Libraries category in the web part selection
pane. Both options show you the list of all the lists and libraries
available in the current site as web parts. The only difference is that
clicking the Existing List button hides the categories, showing you
only the web parts that belong to the Lists and Libraries category.
By selecting one of the
lists or libraries and adding it to the page, you actually add a List
View web part to the page. After you add the web part to the page, the
page displays the items in the list or library that you selected. What
view is displayed by default depends on the type of list.
If you want to change what
information is displayed, you can do this by using the same method you
use to edit a view in a list or library. To edit the view the web part
is displaying, you hover over the web part with your mouse. Doing this
exposes a check box that allows you to select the web part in the web
part’s title row. When you check the check box, you see the List Tools
ribbon or Library Tools ribbon, with the List or Library tab available.
To modify the view shown in the web part, you follow the same
instructions as in “Modify a View” .
Note
The
view you will be modifying does not exist in the list but instead is
configured in the web part. So even if it looks like you are editing
the default view of the list itself, you needn’t worry: You are only
modifying the view of the web part and not the view used in the list.
In addition to changing
the view, there are additional settings you can configure for the web
part, using the web part’s settings pane.
When you’re viewing the
editing pane for a list view web part, you can select from the list of
views that were created for the list or library different views for the
web part. You can also create a view just for the web part by clicking
the Edit the Current View link if you want the web part to display a
view that was not created in the list or library. This has exactly the
same result as editing the view using the method described earlier.
You can also select the
toolbar type for the web part. This setting defines whether the web
part displays a summary toolbar (that is, a link at the bottom for
adding a new item to the list or creating a new document in the
library), no toolbar, or a full toolbar. A full toolbar is used only
for picture libraries and surveys because they do not have ribbons.
