SharePoint Blog Category Pagination

Quick and easy.  That is what it sounded like.

It’s Friday about 3pm, a department manager wants ‘something’ added in his department site.  They want to post information for another group to view.  They want to categorize the content so the users can easily sort through the various postings.  They wanted a blog.  For the sake of brevity I won’t go into more details on what, why, etc. related to the choices, just the interesting tidbits.

I quickly created a SharePoint Blog site under their SP 2007 department site, did the few obligatory things to make it nicer and fit the theme and the department and let it go.    The department manager was happy, the end.

4-ish pm – he is back. Gee, we notice that when we select a Category from the QuickLaunch and the posts display, there is this little “1-10 >” thing down on the very bottom…and we don’t like it.  We want to see everything posted in that Category on one page, we don’t care how long it is or if we have to scroll down for days.

OK, I will take a look…there must be a setting in the Blog settings somewhere.  Nope, can’t find it anywhere.

I look at the page, it is … Lists/Categories/Category.aspx, so I decide to open it up in SharePoint Designer (SPD).  If I try to modify the view in ‘design’ mode it hangs SPD.  Nice touch. Did I mention it was late Friday afternoon?  After much searching around in Code mode, I find what I am looking for – that is the tidbit controlling pagination.  I knew it had to be a page or item view limit somewhere in there. 

Here is what you do to adjust pagination:

Go and find the <ListViewXML> tag (in the Category.aspx or other page where pagination control is desired), search there for the section of code that looks something like this:

/Query><RowLimit Paged="TRUE">10</RowLimit><

Notice that “Paged” is equal to TRUE and has a value of “10″.  You can set the value to whatever number of blog posts you want to display.  I suspect that you could just set “Paged” to “FALSE” if you want to display every post from any chosen Category.  I plan to try that out very soon…but the critical knowledge has been gained and shared.

Enjoy your SharePoint Blogs!

UPDATE: I tested out setting Paged to “False”, which works fine, as long as you remove the number from the RowLimit (example above displays “10”).  If you leave a number in there, SharePoint will display that number of posts without pagination at the bottom to get to the additional posts.  Your code should look something like this:

/Query><RowLimit Paged="FALSE"></RowLimit><

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