I'd like to start off by saying I'm very new to Sharepoint, so I'm sorry if I'm asking something very obvious. I've done quite a bit a googling and can't find an answer to my question. This leads me to believe that maybe I'm asking the wrong question. So, here goes:
We have a Sharepoint webpage that currently contains 3 Web Parts (2 lists and a text filter). The text filter can be used to filter the two lists. I've been asked to provide the following functionality:
- A user must be able to open this page from an http link (easy)
- The Text-Filter must be automatically filled-in and applied, thus immediately filtering the two lists
This seemed pretty straight-forward to me: Pull a parameter from the page's URL and feed it into the filter. I found and added a Query String (URL) Filter and I managed to pull the parameter from the URL, but I can't feed it to the existing Filter!
Sure, I can pass the value to the two lists (effectively coding the same filter two different ways) but that seems wrong. So, my question boils down to this:
Is it possible to set a Text Filter's value from a Query String (URL) Filer?
Am I asking the wrong question? Am I looking at this problem in the wrong way? Any help is much appreciated, thanks.
