FlexListViewer

http://blogs.infosupport.com/porint/archive/2006/08/15/9865.aspx

Have you ever wanted to have a list presented on a page, which resides in a site different from where you have the list?
I believe the list and view are one of the big selling points of Sharepoint. I like them very much. On the contrary, I do not like the Content Query Web Part. Out of question.

Our site is of multi-lingual. We use the Variations technique. Though there are many points of it that I am not happy. This, I believe is one of the biggest shortcomings.
If you say to your users that they have to manage a separate list for each different language, they would laugh at you.

FlexListViewer is my saviour. It allow to have a view displayed in the other site than the one the list belongs to.

Better even, the source code is available. There was a small point of it that does not really fit to our need. We are in the usual, stagin -> internet facing setting. We prepare pages in the staging, and the Content Deployment pushes them to the internet facing site. The out-of-box FlexListViewer, the view URL needs to be a full URL, starting with http://hostname. But in our case, that changes, in the course of deployment. So, do not want to really specify any host.

Thanks to the developper, who made the source available. I modified it so if the specified URL starts with “/”, it assumes the host it is on.