Displaying 4 columns in a data view web part

Hi, does anyone know how to display a list in 4 columns? We have a
long list of cities that I'm grouping by country, by using a data view
web part I've managed to get the list to display in 2 columns, but
that's still wasting a lot of screen space. Ideally we would like the
list to display in 4 columns, any ideas anyone?
Thanks
Rob

Engelbert
Fri Jun 09 04:24:22 CDT 2006

You can display a data view web part if you have four columns to display.

Obviously I'm missing the point of this question, can you give an example
with content now and what you envisage ?

Engelbert

"Rob Watts" <rdw@lubrizol.com> wrote in message
news:1149839438.067987.164030@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Hi, does anyone know how to display a list in 4 columns? We have a
> long list of cities that I'm grouping by country, by using a data view
> web part I've managed to get the list to display in 2 columns, but
> that's still wasting a lot of screen space. Ideally we would like the
> list to display in 4 columns, any ideas anyone?
> Thanks
> Rob
>

Rob
Fri Jun 09 04:43:05 CDT 2006

Engelbert wrote:
> You can display a data view web part if you have four columns to display.
>
> Obviously I'm missing the point of this question, can you give an example
> with content now and what you envisage ?
>
> Engelbert
>
Hi Engelbert, What we have at the moment is something like:

Group USA
New York Los Angeles
Washington Boston
Philadelphia Baltimore
Chicago Cleveland
Group UK
London Birmingham
Bristol Glasgow
Manchester Cardiff
Leeds Liverpool

What we would lke is someting like

Group USA
New York Los Angeles Washington Boston
Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago Cleveland
Group UK
London Birmingham Bristol Glasgow
Manchester Cardiff Leeds Liverpool

In other words one column (or field) of data displaying in 4 coluns on
the screen.

Cheers

Engelbert
Fri Jun 09 05:12:51 CDT 2006

I doubt if you have a hope ...

(unless you create a completely new web page that extracts from the database
or other methods that allow you to get all the cities first and then output
them in four columns)

SPS/WSS itself won't give you a non-programming way of doing this (unless
you create three extra columns (or four) and assign the cities to different
columns)

Engelbert

"Rob Watts" <rdw@lubrizol.com> wrote in message
news:1149846185.669782.25270@j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Engelbert wrote:
>> You can display a data view web part if you have four columns to display.
>>
>> Obviously I'm missing the point of this question, can you give an example
>> with content now and what you envisage ?
>>
>> Engelbert
>>
> Hi Engelbert, What we have at the moment is something like:
>
> Group USA
> New York Los Angeles
> Washington Boston
> Philadelphia Baltimore
> Chicago Cleveland
> Group UK
> London Birmingham
> Bristol Glasgow
> Manchester Cardiff
> Leeds Liverpool
>
> What we would lke is someting like
>
> Group USA
> New York Los Angeles Washington Boston
> Philadelphia Baltimore Chicago Cleveland
> Group UK
> London Birmingham Bristol Glasgow
> Manchester Cardiff Leeds Liverpool
>
> In other words one column (or field) of data displaying in 4 coluns on
> the screen.
>
> Cheers
>

Rob
Fri Jun 09 06:54:46 CDT 2006

Engelbert,

Thanks, I suspected that this would be the case. It's not that
important, it just seems a shame to be wasting so much screen space -
4 columns would be far more elegant - but we can live with 2.

Thanks,

Rob.

Matthew
Fri Jun 09 16:37:57 CDT 2006

"Rob Watts" <rdw@lubrizol.com> wrote...
> Hi, does anyone know how to display a list in 4 columns?
> We have a long list of cities that I'm grouping by country,
> by using a data view web part I've managed to get the list
> to display in 2 columns, but that's still wasting a lot of
> screen space. Ideally we would like the list to display in
> 4 columns, any ideas anyone?

This is really a layout issue, rather than a content issue. Can you just get
the web part to generate a single column of data as would be expected, then
get the browser to render this in multiple columns with CSS?

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/

Rob
Mon Jun 12 02:35:37 CDT 2006

Matthew Kendall wrote:
> "Rob Watts" <rdw@lubrizol.com> wrote...
> > Hi, does anyone know how to display a list in 4 columns?
> > We have a long list of cities that I'm grouping by country,
> > by using a data view web part I've managed to get the list
> > to display in 2 columns, but that's still wasting a lot of
> > screen space. Ideally we would like the list to display in
> > 4 columns, any ideas anyone?
>
> This is really a layout issue, rather than a content issue. Can you just get
> the web part to generate a single column of data as would be expected, then
> get the browser to render this in multiple columns with CSS?
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/

Mathew,

Thanks for that, that definitely looks interesting and I'll look into
it.