What is a content query web part?

ContentByQuryWebpat referred as Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is used to display content using query/filter from another site or sub site within the same site collection. With the CQWP, content display as per the requirement, branding and context can be controlled.

What is content query web part in SharePoint?

Content query web part is a web part available in SharePoint used to display the data from the SharePoint site and subsite, within a site collection in SharePoint 2013/2016/Online.

How to use content query web part?

You can add the Content Query Web Part (often called CQWP for short) to a SharePoint page by going into Edit mode (Site Actions > Edit Page), then click the Insert tab and choose Web Part. Click the Content Rollup folder and select Content Query Web Part.

How do you display list columns in Content Query web part?

To display custom fields in a Content By Query Web Part

1. Add a Content By Query Web Part to a page:
2. Edit the properties in the Web Part file to display custom fields.
3. In the .
4. Map these internal column names to the columns’ Title and Description that are present in the XSLT transformations.
5. Save the .

When to use content query web part ( cqwp )?

Share Point 2013 has several out-of-the-box web parts and the most widely of these are Content Query Web Part (CQWP) and the Content Search Web Part (CSWP). These two web parts are used for querying and search crawl indexed data from a share point site.

What’s the difference between CSWP and cqwp?

The difference between the two Web Parts is the technology that the Web Parts use. The CQWP queries a database, whereas the CSWP queries the search index. Here’s an example of how these Web Parts behave.

When to use web part and web part?

You can use both Web Parts to display content based on information from your site navigation. For example, when a visitor goes to a page, the Web Part on that page automatically issues a query that contains information from your site navigation. The search results are displayed in the Web Part.