To add a custom column to a SharePoint Web Part, do the following.
Navigation
- In SharePoint, navigate to the Task List or Process Instance List Web Part.
- On the Web Part window, click the Arrow button, and then click
Edit Web Part. The Arrow button appears only when you move the
pointer over the Web Part window.
The navigation for this task varies, depending upon your SharePoint version and the SharePoint settings in your local environment. For more information, see the documentation for SharePoint.
- In the Web Part properties, click Data Sources.
Instructions
- On the Custom Data Sources Configuration Window window in the Configured Data Sources list, select the item you want.
- Click the Add button
(
). - Modify the values in the
following fields as required:
Field Name Definition Internal field name An identifier for the data you want to display from the data source. SharePoint users do not see this text.
Display field name The column name you want to appear in the SharePoint list.
Render as Link? When selected, specifies that the column appears in the SharePoint list as a hyperlink.
For column data to render as a link the data type must be String or blank. If Render as Link is selected and any other data type is selected, the Render as Link option is ignored.
Url If a column value is rendered as a link, specifies the URL for the link.
- Click the Update button (
).
