Display one row of list in a subsites main page (sp 2013 on office 365 host)

Question

Im trying to find a way to display information from one row in a list in a subsite

the senerio is that we write many proposals for work and we have one site that keeps information to all proposals and sub-sites for each individual proposal

I would like to display each individuals proposals entry in the main page of that sub-site but It doesn't seem like there is a good out of the box way to do this

I have full access to the site so I can use Sharepoint Designer but i'm just not sure how to start (SharePoint is new to me)

(bonus points if your answer allows me to format the text a little :) )

Answer 1

The Content Query Web Part will display content from a list in a parent site. You can filter it using a field on the page. You will need to create a page layout that includes a field you can use to filter by - this will be using SPD. You will then need to create a page using that page layout for each subsite and add the correct filter value to each one. You can either add the CQWP to the page layout or add it as a web part to each page.

You will then filter the CQWP using PageFieldValue: FieldName.

That said, it seems to me that if you have a sub-site for each proposal then you may actually be better creating a roll-up at the parent level and storing all the proposal details in the sub-site?