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Document Summary List Widget

Written by Tyler Shuck | Sep 24, 2025 3:33:47 PM

Documents Summary List Widget

For Foundation Site Installations that are not Hive, please refer to widget documentation here.

Purpose

Displays the latest documents from a specified Document library on the existing site or from all sites.

Features

    • Display documents from a specified Document libraries.
    • The number of documents to display in each category can be controlled
    • Documents displayed are security trimmed based on specific site user’s SharePoint permissions
    • When tabs are displayed can support max of 4 tabs (as long as the term has been defined on the site and applied to the documents):
      • Most Recent – displays the latest documents added or modified by any user.
      • Most Viewed – displays the list of documents most view on the specified SharePoint library.

Details

    • Widget Name: DocumentsSummaryListWidget
    • AvailableWith:  Release 5.5  and above.  This article is specific for the Hive version of the DocumentSummaryWidget, for earlier version of this widget please visit here.
    • Content App Type: N/A
    • Content Type: N/A
    • Content App Name: N/A
    • Library Name: Documents
    • Recommended Images Sizes: N/A
    • Dependencies: SharePoint

Content

N/A

Properties

Displayed Title/Title Title that displays at the top of the widget
Select list columns Columns to retrieve for each document example: DocId,ParentLink,Title,Author,EditorOWSUSER,LastModifiedTime,SecondaryFileExtension,SiteName,SPWebUrl,SPWebUrl,SiteTitle,OriginalPath,Path,ViewsRecent
Icon Associated document icon, if available:  For 5.5  Hive, None is appropriate
Function to call before binding the UI events Name of the function called after the UI has been rendered to the screen
Document Library Name SharePoint library to pulls documents. Defaults to Documents
Tabs to Display N/A used in 5.0 and earlier widgets not Hive
Newest Files to Display N/A used in 5.0 and earlier widgets not Hive
Recent Files to Display Number of files that display in the Document Summary List
Popular Files to Display N/A used in 5.0 and earlier widgets not Hive
Newest Information Text N/A used in 5.0 and earlier widgets not Hive
Recent Information Text N/A used in 5.0 and earlier widgets not Hive
Popular Information Text N/A used in 5.0 and earlier widgets not Hive
Number of Days N/A used in 5.0 and earlier widgets not Hive
Only Look on Current Site  N/A used in 5.0 and earlier widgets not Hive
Callback Method N/A for this widget:  Name of the function called before the view has been rendered to the screen to edit properties of the view

Views

View Name:  Documents Summary List - Hive (5.5 Hive Install) View Description:  A horizontal slider list of documents, complete with document title, document type, author and date View Preview:View Name:  Documents Summary List Tab - Hive (5.5 Hive Install) View Description:  A vertical list of documents that are filtered by tabs View Preview:
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