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About Data Views

By using Microsoft FrontPage, you can add Data View Web Parts— known as Data Views— to your Web site that display data by using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLTs).

When you use FrontPage to create or edit a data-driven Web site running on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, you can add Data Views that can extract data from a variety of available data sources, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML) files, Web services, SharePoint lists, and OLE DB–compliant databases such as SQL Server, DB2, and Oracle.

You can also customize Data Views to create custom displays of your data in WYSIWYG format by using the Formatting toolbar. You can also perform more advanced customizations by using the Data View Details task pane:

• Style    Choose a formatting style from a gallery of predesigned list view styles. You can also add a toolbar for site visitors to perform custom filtering on the list.
• Filter    Specify criteria to display a subset of the data in the Data View.
• Sort & group    Display items in a particular order and optionally group them on a Web page beneath collapsible headings.
• Conditional Formatting    Set conditions for the data in your Data View.

Windows SharePoint Services, which is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, provides the component-based platform required for FrontPage data-driven functionality.