SharePoint 2007 Document Library ViewSelector

Question

Here I find myself again wondering why certain things work and some just don't.

I was wondering how I could display the View Selector on a document library WebPart? The Site settings AllItems.aspx page of the document library has it, but it seems impossible to set it on the actual page WebPart.

Is this something that can be achieved when adding the Doc Lib WebPart or in the views that I missed? I don't want to have to copy the AllItems.aspx WebPart to each page that needs it, but if that's what it takes.

Any help would be appreciated. And no I don't want to create a new page for each view and create a dropdown selector to navigate between these pages. SharePoint has it built-in, there has to be a way to enable it for the 'frontend' WebParts too!

Thanks!

Answer 1

I realized that the internal functionality of sharepoint was actually to create separate pages for the views. This is really not what I had expected, but had to work with it.

Answer 2

Not sure if having the view selector is your goal or an attempt to get to your goal.

You might already know this and it may or may not apply to this question, but you can add any ListViewWebPart (the web part that displays content for lists and document libraries) to any web part page, customize the web part and configure the view used for that web part, all through the web UI.

Answer 3

Document Library Explorer is a web part that can be used on pages instead of the standard list view web part. It is a commercial product that I have written and actively maintain.

Among many other features, it has the ability to show the view selector on the toolbar.