An overview of the List Item web part can be found on this page:
http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=86An overview of the features of the
List Item Filter web part:
An overview of the features of the List Item Filter webpart v1.0:
- SharePoint filter web part that displays list items in a dropdown, radio button list, checkbox list or a tagcloud
- The filter web part is a filter consumer, so you can filter the items displayed in the list based on another filter
- Works in WSS and MOSS -> brings filtering to WSS
- Works with all other web parts that consumer SharePoint filters
- Values are displayed based on the options/datatype of the selected field
- Multi valued columns (lookup/choice/person) are displayed as multiple items
- Values in a calculated field can be used as filter provider
