SF2010, create a list of child sites?

Question

I want to have a list of all child sites on a page something like this:

• Project 1
• Project 2
• Project 3

Where I worked before I ended up making a custom web-part to do this, and I'd rather not make a list that has to be manually updated.

Is there any way to do this in SharePoint Foundation 2010 automatically without having to make a custom web-part?

EDIT: This is exactly what data I want, but, I want that list view shown as a web-part, on another page. Can we do that without getting custom?

http://[YourSite]/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx?ShowSites=1

Answer 1

The Data View Web Part (DVWP) has a DataSourceMode="Webs" that will return a data set containing all of the sites in the Site Collection. It's custom in the sense that you do the work in SharePoint Designer, but there's not server-side code.

Another option is to use my SPServices jQuery library and the GetAllSubWebCollection operation from the Webs Web Service. Here you'd just drop some script either into the page or in a CEWP.

Answer 2

You should check out a dataview web part. You can create a dataview web part using the GetSite method for the SiteData Web service. This will pull a list of all sites within the site collection for you.