Limit amount of Announcements and other areas on front page

I have Sharepoint V2 (WSS) via my SBS 2003 Premium box and I'm trying to
discover how to limit the amount of data shown by each webpart on the opening
page (default.aspx).

I know how to limit the amount of data when you look up each section
individually but on the opening page I'd like to limit the amount of
announcements to say 2 (I currently have 3) and for a areas like General
Documentation to be limited to say about 5 documents at a time.

I've already set Item limit to about 5 but this doesn't appear to afect the
web part on the opening page only the part when you open it.

Thanx for any advice.

Engelbert
Fri Jan 06 05:34:08 CST 2006

The web part of a list uses the view that you selected at the time you moved
the web part to default.aspx. If you didn't specify one it used the view
that was default at the time.

If you amend that default view later the changes are NOT made to the view
used by the web part.

So you have to modify the web part and then specify the View you want to use
(possibly again).

I tend to use two views - one for the main list and one for the web part of
the list. The web part view has then a smaller number of lines.

Engelbert

"u101440" <u101440@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67E3BDA3-78D0-4918-A837-C534112D0DA2@microsoft.com...
>I have Sharepoint V2 (WSS) via my SBS 2003 Premium box and I'm trying to
> discover how to limit the amount of data shown by each webpart on the
> opening
> page (default.aspx).
>
> I know how to limit the amount of data when you look up each section
> individually but on the opening page I'd like to limit the amount of
> announcements to say 2 (I currently have 3) and for a areas like General
> Documentation to be limited to say about 5 documents at a time.
>
> I've already set Item limit to about 5 but this doesn't appear to afect
> the
> web part on the opening page only the part when you open it.
>
> Thanx for any advice.

u101440
Fri Jan 06 05:48:02 CST 2006

Thanx Engelbert. Makes perfect sense now.

"Engelbert" wrote:

> The web part of a list uses the view that you selected at the time you moved
> the web part to default.aspx. If you didn't specify one it used the view
> that was default at the time.
>
> If you amend that default view later the changes are NOT made to the view
> used by the web part.
>
> So you have to modify the web part and then specify the View you want to use
> (possibly again).
>
> I tend to use two views - one for the main list and one for the web part of
> the list. The web part view has then a smaller number of lines.
>
> Engelbert
>
> "u101440" <u101440@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:67E3BDA3-78D0-4918-A837-C534112D0DA2@microsoft.com...
> >I have Sharepoint V2 (WSS) via my SBS 2003 Premium box and I'm trying to
> > discover how to limit the amount of data shown by each webpart on the
> > opening
> > page (default.aspx).
> >
> > I know how to limit the amount of data when you look up each section
> > individually but on the opening page I'd like to limit the amount of
> > announcements to say 2 (I currently have 3) and for a areas like General
> > Documentation to be limited to say about 5 documents at a time.
> >
> > I've already set Item limit to about 5 but this doesn't appear to afect
> > the
> > web part on the opening page only the part when you open it.
> >
> > Thanx for any advice.
>
>
>