How to: Display Data on an Office Live Small Business Public Web Site

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You can display data that is stored in a list in a Microsoft Office Live Small Business application or workspace on your public Web site, so that visitors to the Web site can view the data. When you change information in the list, the information displayed on the public Web site is updated as well. To display that data, you must first do the following:

  • Create or chose a list view
  • Share the view in a public Web site
  • Add the Display Data module in a public Web site

If you don't have an existing view of a list that you want to use, you can create a new one. For more information, see How to: Create a View Based on a List.

Note

It is not possible to display data for the lists that are included with Business Contact Manager.

To share the view with your public Web site

  1. On the left navigation bar, click Business Applications.

  2. Either select an application or click Workspaces, and then browse to the list that you want to share.

  3. On the actions bar, click Settings, and then click Share Data. The Share this list with your public Web site Web page appears.

  4. ** Important **  Only one view of a list can be shared at a time. If you receive a message that a view for this list is already being shared, you can click Edit to share a different view. If you do so, however, you will disable sharing for the view that is currently being shared, and you should remove that view's associated data sharing module from the Web page or update the module to be associated with a different view. If you do not remove or update the module, the Web page will not appear as expected.

  5. In the Select the view of the list to share with your public Web site list, select the list view that you want to share.

  6. Select the Display data on my Web site check box, and then click OK. The View successfully shared area of the page appears.

  7. Click Finish.

To add the Display Data module to the public Web site
  1. On the left navigation bar, click WebSite. The Page Manager page appears.
  2. Click Edit next to the name of the Web page on which you want to display the data. The Web page opens in Edit mode.
  3. Click Modules and then, in the Modules list, click Display data. The Display data dialog box opens.
  4. In the Select the view of the list that you want to display list, select the list view.
  5. In the Choose how you want to display the data list, select a layout.
  6. In the Provide a message that introduces the data you are displaying text box, type a descriptive message that visitors to your Web site will see, and then click OK.
  7. Drag the module to the zone where you want to display it.
  8. Click Save. The data from the shared view appears on the Web page in the layout that you selected.