Question

In SharePoint Designer I use some lists as sources and then link them together with an operation GetListItems (I fetch items from multiple lists on different site collections for rollup/aggregation):
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Now something is fine as I managed to get the result: alt text http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/4835/ss20090428101013.png

But the strings that are attached to field result (6;#, 2;#) is… disturbing.
How can I get rid from those attached strings? They are not attached to all fields, but to some (important ones):

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Answer 1

Ahh, well usally that happens – you keep searching for answer, then seek for help and find it yourself.

I used substring xsl function, to strip away those first characters. Messy, if i want to add links to that table, but works.

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By the way, the main question how to rollup content from multiple site collections has been journey to me for several days already. If anyone is in the same situation, I recommend (well because I found myself an answer there) these:

• How-To Rollup two lists in two site
  collections on a page
• Or a better way to use for a single
  site collection: SharePoint
  Customisation Tricks: Use The
  SPDataSource, Luke! (Good links
  inside that article).
• Something I didn’t touch, because I
  didn’t need such an advanced method,
  but maybe someone does: Populating
  data sources in code