Here I am showing you how to create a simple data view web part to display data from SharePoint list. It has filter and grouping enabled.

I am taking the example of a Task list here. I am creating a data view to display data from this list to a data view web part.

1. First of all you have to open your web application in share point designer. Open the page where you want to insert data view.

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2. Click on Insert -> Share point Control -> Data view.

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3. From the Data source library select the list you want to add to data view web part and click on Show data.

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4. Select the fields you want to insert to data view web part.

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5. Drag the selected Item to your page web part zone.

6. Click save You will get the data view as shown below.

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7. Right click on the web part and click on show common controls.

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8. From the pop up select Data view properties.

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9. Please select the filter and grouping options.

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10. Go to Editing tab and select the options you want.

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11. Alternatively you can select paging properties in the Paging tab.

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12. Check in your changes and open your page in browser.

13. Now you can see your Data view web part with filters,groups,Edit,Delete and Insert options.

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