The following is a desirable scenario in many SharePoint projects:

• You have two related Lists, such as for example Customers and Orders.
• The latter contains a Lookup Column pointing to the Customer of each and every Order.
• On the Display Form (DispForm.aspx) of each and every Customer, you'd like to show all its Orders.

How can you achieve this? Let us find out in this article.

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SharePoint's XSLT Data View Web Parts do support incoming Web Part Connections, but they are a fragile bunch. Connecting a Filter provider Web Part to List View Web Parts is straightforward. Connecting to a List-bound XSLT Data View can be a tad more tricky depending on circumstances, but still fairly easy. Connecting to an SQL-bound Data View requires a few Serious Setup Steps. This walkthrough helps you through it.

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One reason for FilterZen's popularity is its range-filtering capabilities.

Think about the out-of-box filtering and search capabilities of SharePoint: drilling down into a specific sub-range, whether in date-time terms ("show me data between March and August") or in numeric terms ("show me sales between 100 and 500"), if you don't want to Modify your List View everytime you want to see certain data sub-ranges, then neither the built-in Advanced Search nor the built-in Column header drop-down filter menus will take you there.

FilterZen made this possible, but until today this involved a number of redundant manual set-up steps. The more steps there are, or the more repetetive those are, the more there is scope for mistakes and omissions. As we saw how popular range filters are, we decided to save you even more hassle and time and further streamline the process for you...

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