There’s another place you can customize how your list displays.  From any Web Part Page you can add a List View Web Part for a list that exists on the current site.

·         Open the page in Edit mode

·         Click on a Web Part Zone’s “Add a Web Part” button

·         Select the list or library you wish to display and click Add

This will add a new List View Web Part to the page.  You’ll notice that the list is displaying in a view that matches the AllItems view.  What is really happening is when you create your first List View Web Part, an unnamed copy of the default view is created and associated with the LVWP.  You can actually see the hidden view from PowerShell.

The nice thing about having a separate view is that the LVWP also allows you to modify the view right from the page that hosts your List View Web Part.  To update the view:

·         Choose Modify Shared Web Part from the LVWP’s edit menu

·         This will bring up the Web Part Task Pane.  From here you can select and exiting view to use or click on “edit the current view” to fully customize the view.

·         The Edit View page should look familiar, it uses the same List View editing form I talked about in my last post