Creating a dashboard on the site collection level that show all the latest items from its subsites’ lists

Question

I have a team site collection inside SP 2013. And this team site has 10 sub-sites of type team site.

Now I want inside the site collection home page to show the latest items for all the subsites’ lists by adding App part of each sub site's list. Now I edit the home page of my site collection and I try adding APP Parts, but seems the subsites and their lists are not available in the menu . and only the direct site collection assets can be added as a web app, as follow:-

So can anyone advice on this please , on how i can add App Parts for the subsites inside the site collection home page?

Answer 1

You need to use one of the following:

• Content Search Web Part
• Search Web Part
• Content Query Web Part

The two search web parts are a bit easier to use as far as customizing the queries as there is a designer you can use. You can also change their looks. Content Query Web Part requires some XSLT knowledge to get the most out of it.

You will add the search webpart to the page then edit the properties and you will see a button to change the "Search Query" where you can scope your query to one or more sites and content types.

Microsoft has a few tutorials on configuring these search web parts - like this one: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Configure-a-Content-Search-Web-Part-in-SharePoint-0DC16DE1-DBE4-462B-BABB-BF8338C36C9A

Answer 2

Only own lists and libraries are available in APP Part. You can not add list/library as APP part from other site. The good thing is there are workarounds for this. Check the below link

Displaying SharePoint Online 2013 lists to parent or sub-sites