Create a multi column layout with the content query tool web part

September 17, 2007   17:55

In your Office Sharepoint Server 2007 site you can display a dynamic view of content on a page by using the Content Query Web Part. This post from Tyler Butler and this one from Heather Solomon helped me on my way.

With the help of these blogs it is not very hard to create a single column presentation of your content. Every single item gets processed by the ItemStyle.xsl found in the Style library / XSL Style sheets section. But if you would like to order your content dynamically in 2 columns you will need to build some extra coding in the ItemStyle.xsl and in the ContentQueryMain.xsl, which is also found in the XSL Style sheets section.

The default templates present our data in a single column:

But for some sites we might want to show our data inside 2 columns:

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