Tip Rotator Lightning Talk
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This document provides instructions for creating a random tip rotator using SharePoint lists and XSL. It describes how to build a custom list to store tips, add the list to a page using the Display Item Form, and then modify the XSL code to display a randomly selected tip from the list each time the page refreshes. The random tip rotator demonstrates using XSL to dynamically display random content from a SharePoint list.
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- 1. Random Tip Rotator Fun with XSL! Elaine Krause Software Developer, Applied Information Sciences
- 2. ABOUT ME • Elaine Krause • Software Engineer, Applied Information Sciences • We’re hiring! • Contact: elaine.krause@appliedis.com 2 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 4. BUILD THE LIST • Site Actions -> More Options -> List -> Custom List 4 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 5. ADD A COLUMN • Add a Column named TipText (List Tools -> List Settings ->Create Column) • Set it to be a multiple lines of text type column 5 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 6. ADD DATA • Add a few Tips to your list: 6 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 7. • ADD THE PAGE • In SharePoint Designer “Pages”, Add New Page and open it in design mode • From Insert tab in Designer ribbon, choose Display Item Form 7 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 8. CONFIGURE ITEM LIST IN PAGE • In Display Item Form dialog, choose the new list • Choose “Display item form” and uncheck “Show standard toolbar” 8 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 9. SHAPE HTML • In Design view, right click first column and choose Delete Column. Then switch to Code view to finish html edits 9 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 10. CONFIGURE FORM IN SPD • From ribbon, select Paging and choose Display All Items 10 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 11. ASYNCH REFRESH Check Asynchronous Update in ribbon to enable the Refresh Interval link. Then select a Refresh Interval. 11 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 12. THE FUN STUFF: XSL • In SPD, switch to Code View tab. First, find the select: <xsl:for-each select=“$Rows”> • Modify the select so that it doesn’t get all rows but rather gets only one random row. Do this by adding an indexer at the end of $Rows. <xsl:variable name=“Random” select=“ddwrt:Random(1,count($Rows))” /> <xsl:for-each select=“$Rows[position()=$Random]”> 12 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 13. IT’S DONE!
- 14. VIEW THE PAGE! • Save the page and then browse to it in the sharepoint site. • The tip changes randomly on page refresh and by itself if the page is not refreshed. 14 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013
- 15. PLEASE FILL OUT SESSION EVALUATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!
- 16. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! 16 | SharePoint Saturday Austin 2013