Custom fields & Missing Fields in Content Query Web Part

11. April 2009 12:31 by sashashev in reskining, web parts  //  Tags: ,   //   Comments (0)

I was trying to format the layout of the Custom Query Webpart similar in fashion to instructions found at http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/CustomItemStyle.aspx.

The problem was that no matter what I did in CQWP based on the announcements list the title and image appeared but the body text was not showing up.

After reading a few articles including http://martijnmolegraaf.blogspot.com/2008/12/configuring-and-customizing-content_20.html I realised that body was a custom field and so I needed to export the webpart.
Edit the exported webpart file with all my custom fields.

The line to edit looked like

<property name="CommonViewFields" type="string">
PublishingRollupImage,Image;Created,DateTime;Body,Note;EncodedAbsUrl,Computed;FileDirRef,Lookup;
</property>

Note the name followed by datatype.

Then import the webpart back in and use it as you would any other CQWP.

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