While working on some modifications to the SharePoint 2010 blog site template
I ran across an interesting problem. I was trying to duplicate the functionality
of a particular web part; in this case, the Posts web part which outputs a
formatted display of list items on the Category.aspx page of a blog site. The
default web part was listed in the contents page (reachable using the
"?contents=1" query string parameter) as a basic XsltListViewWebPart, which
meant that I should be able to drop the Posts web part from Lists and Libraries
in the web part gallery, set the view, and get the desired results. If only it
were that simple.
No matter which view I picked, all the web part showed was a standard list
view with rows and columns, not the nicely formatted view with the calendar page
image, title link and summary information that I was after. Since it was a stock
list view web part I knew it was using a view to fetch the data and then
transforming it in XSL but there didn't seem to be any way to force it into
using the correct view. Assuming that the view itself might be hidden from the
drop-down selector, I turned to PowerShell to see if I could find out what was
going on. I began by iterating through the web parts on the page to find the one
I wanted and writing out the view ID...
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