SharePoint List View (Calendar) Webpart Cross Site/Web Rendering with No Code Hack

These scenarios more likely to happened when working on restricted environment such as no custom development and the SharePoint Designer is only tool available.

For instance,

"Calendar list cannot be shared across other site collection or subsite with Calendar view mode"

Or

"This webpart is only work on current website context and when it used on other website the information is not the same"

If above sound familiar then this little non-coding hack maybe useful to you.

Here the pre-requisites:

• SharePoint Designer (2007 or 2010 depend on your environment)
• Basic Html editing skill.
• A new minified masterpage.
• A new page inherit from new minified masterpage.
• SharePoint Page View Webpart.

Some of you may already aware what have to be done with above pre-requisites. You are right, we are going to create a new webpart page without any branding and loaded with Page View webpart (Iframe).

Here the steps:

1. Create a new masterpage without any branding but leave the main place holder.

2. Create a new webpart page and point it to newly create minified masterpage. This page has to be create on website that you wish to share. e.g. http://yoursharepointsite.com/pages/calendar.aspx

3. Insert the Calendar webpart into page just created in step 2.

4. You are almost there, go to the page that require the Calendar webpart to render and insert the Page View webpart. e.g. http://yoursharepointsite2.com/pages/pagerender.aspx
5. Point the newly inserted Page View Webpart to http://yoursharepointsite.com/pages/calendar.aspx.
6. Walah, done.

Limitation

• The website which consume the content is assume to have same access permission to source website, otherwise credential is require for login.