Comments on: SharePoint Vertical News Ticker

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:31:10 +0000

@Dave

Thans for that – I’ve tried it all but with nothing has worked.

To try to resolve this, I followed this approach with your code for the simple news ticker: http://sptwentyten.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/insert-javascript-into-a-content-editor-web-part-cewp/ . The results were confusing – when I add the text file to the CEWP as a link, and then test the link I see the page with the scrolling box, but when I then refresh the SP2010 page, its just a static block of text.

Is there some way that SP2010 is blocking the javascript?

By: davecavins

davecavins — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:04:14 +0000

@ Simon I have not tried to implement this solution in SP2010 yet. But here are a few things to check.

Make sure you list name matches what is defined in the script on line #9
Make sure you are referencing the JavaScript files correctly. If the links are wrong nothing will work.
Add an alert to the script after line 51 just to verify it is firing properly.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:26:17 +0000

I’ve tried to use this in a SharePoint 2010 site, but it just comes up as a blank box.

Sorry – Don’t really know what I’m doing – thought this would just paste and work.

Any suggstions?

By: Pramod

Pramod — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:09:32 +0000

the only issue with the code is it jumps when it tries to add the first record back to the list. I tried a lot of stuff like changing duration, distance, using size of the container, but they just fail to work. Please let me know if you have found a solution or have a new code.

By: A Better Annoucements Ticker | Dave Cavins

A Better Annoucements Ticker | Dave Cavins — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:09:23 +0000

[...] while back I did a post about how to make a vertical news ticker, in the comments several people pointed out problems with the code so I decided to write a better [...]

By: davecavins

davecavins — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:30:17 +0000

@Hank AJAX is not something you need to install on the server. This script uses some techniques that could be refered to as AJAX but it should work fine on your server without anything being installed.

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:45:04 +0000

Does this require AJAX? I am also a novice developer – and I do not have AJAX installed (our application team refuses to install it).

Is there a Non-AJAX version?

Thanks

By: Walter

Walter — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:21:33 +0000

OK, I was using jquery-1.3.2.min.js rather than jquery.js which caused the issue with the scrolling… but I still have an issue with some of the text associated with the 1st announcement being displayed “behind” the scrolling text..

Mouseover doesn’t appear to stop the scrolling; which is pretty “jumpy” as noted before.

By: davecavins

davecavins — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:12:10 +0000

@ Lisajo48 The ticker.js script is from here

By: Lisajo48

Lisajo48 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:08:50 +0000

I checked the jquery link and it opens the script OK so I don’t think it’s that. But, to be sure I saved the file to a doc lib and updated the link in the CEWP accordingly. I did the same for the ticker.js script which I’m assuming is the EasySlider1.7 (he updated 1.5 so I used it): I downloaded the EasySlider, found the .js file amongst the others, uploaded it to a doc lib, and updated the link in the CEWP. No change resulted. I get what looks like a table/frame structure in the CEWP, but no content. There was also mention of putting the code on the server (assuming SP WFE). If so, where? ?Would that make the difference for me? Again, I apologize for my newbie questions but your help would be greatly appreciated. Or, maybe some one else who’s used your ticker could answer these questions too?

By: davecavins

davecavins — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:30:29 +0000

@ Lisajo48 try linking to a local copy of jquery just to be sure that is not the issue. Also make sure the link to the ticker.js script is right on line #2.

By: Lisajo48

Lisajo48 — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:55 +0000

Hi,
I’m a novice developer and light on coding. I pasted the code above into my CEWP, added an ‘s’ to the link for google since I’m working in a secured environment (this has worked fine for other CEWP source code additions) and it is on the page. The only problem is that there is no content in it. I checked to confirm that the list it is looking to is ‘Announcements’ which is the same as mine. Why am I not seeing the existing content in my announcements list? What am I missing? Thanks!

By: davecavins

davecavins — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:21:59 +0000

@tecrms Been busy with school but I plan to do it in the next few weeks.

By: tecrms

tecrms — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:07:00 +0000

Are you still planning to rewrite?

By: tecrms

tecrms — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:44:38 +0000

Looking forward to it!