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How to use DVWP to filter multiple columns in a document library

Posted By: Posted Date: April 10, 2011 Points: 0 Category :C#

I am not new to SP, but newer to developing in SP, so I need some help please.

I am attempting to convert my company away from nested folders on SP. Elsewhere I saw a way to add multiple custom columns to a document library and then use a different web part (I thought the Form Web Part, but that only lets you filter on one column at a time) to filter the document library using those columns.

Ex: I have three columns:

* Market - with the checkbox choices being Employer, Public, Payer, and GovEduLab. A document could be a part of all, some or one of those markets.
* Product - with the checkbox choices being Care Solutions and Behavioral Solutions. A document could be a part of all, some or one of those markets.
* Process - again, checkbox choices being Account Planning, Commissions, Contracts, etc. And again, the doucment could be a part of all, some or one of those markets.

I want to create something that will allow the user to use some kind of "form" to filter find any document that is a Public-Care Solutions-Contract document and only show thsoe documents in the library.

This is what I have been trying to make it look like, but I am not tied to this:

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