#SharePoint Featured Content Slider Digitally Remastered for #SP2010

davecavins — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:01:01 +0000

So I rewrote this web part to work a little better in SharePoint 2010. I made a few minor changes and improvements. If you can think of other improvements put them in the comments.

Whats new

Added an order field to the List template to allow more control of the display order. In the list template this field is setup to require unique values.
Re-wrote the CSS to include some new CSS3 enhancements. If you are using a newer browser the slider will look better.
Tested across muliple browsers. See screenshots below.

The Code

Here is the XSL needed to add the web part to the page.



	
	
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CSS (contentslider.css) – This file will need to be referenced in the page for it to work properly
Javascript (contentslider.js) - This file will need to be referenced in the page for it to work properly
List Template – Change the file extension to stp once you download this file.

For instructions on how to set everything up please see my previous post. Questions or suggestions? Leave them in the comments.

Here is what you get

IE7

Internet Explorer 7

Google Chrome

FireFox

Mozilla Firefox

Dynamic Drive’s Featured Content Slider in Sharepoint

davecavins — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:39:56 +0000

I have used Dynamic Drive’s Featured Content Slider on a couple of recent projects and wanted to see if I could get it working in SharePoint. There were several key requirements:

User can easily add items
Users can choose a style for each item
Expired Items must not show
Each item will have a Title, Body and a customizable “read more” link.

Here’s how I did it.

First I created a custom list to store the slider items. These are the columns I used:

Title – Single Line of text
Body – Multiple Lines of text
Link URL – HyperLink
Expiration – Date and Time (expired items will not be shown)
Image – Picture
Style – Choice (we will use this column to allow users to choose the style of each item)

On the page I used a DataView WebPart to display the Title, Body, Image and Link URL columns. Using Sharepoint Designer I setup filtering on the expiration date. To do this in design view right click on the data view webpart and bring up the “Common Data View Tasks ” box and choose Filter. In the window I set the conditional statement so that items would only be shown if the expiration date was greater than today.

You can find a basic tutorial on using the DVWP here

Once we have the data we want showing on the page we need to get it into the right format. For the Content Slider to work properly the page needs to refernce an external JavaScript file and a CSS style sheet. Additionally the Slider itself has to follow this pattern:


Content 1 Here.

Basically the whole content slider has do be wrapped in a div with an ID of ‘slider1′ each of the items must be wrapped in a div with the class ‘contentdiv’. For more explanation on this visit Dynamic Drive

SharePoint uses xsl to style the data view so we have to go into the code view and add the nessecary Javascript, CSS and div elements to make everything work. Here is the xsl I used to get everything working in the page



	
	
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For information on how to write xsl stylesheets read this post on Heather Solomon’s site. Basically using tags like this:
allows you to insert various peices of data from the list. In the xsl above I am wrapping each item with the nessacary div to make the slider work. Inside each div I am inserting the title inside an h1 tag, the first 330 characters of the body in an a p tag, and the Link URL formatted as a Hyperlink.

To make everything look good I had to customize the CSS that comes from Dynamic Drive. The code is below.

.sliderwrapper{
position: relative; /*leave as is*/
overflow: hidden; /*leave as is*/
border: 0px;
width: 100%; /*width of featured content slider*/
height: 231px;
}
.sliderwrapper .contentdiv{
visibility:hidden; /*leave as is*/
position:absolute; /*leave as is*/
left:0;  /*leave as is*/
top:0;  /*leave as is*/
padding: 0px;
background:#fff;
width:100%;
/*width of content DIVs within slider. Total width should equal slider's inner width (390+5+5=400) */
height:100%;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity:1;
opacity:1;
color:#fff;
font-size:x-small;
}
.contentdiv img{
height:205px;
width:270px;
margin:10px;
border:1px solid #ccc;
}
.contentdiv h1{
color:#eee;
font:normal normal large Georgia;
margin:0px;
padding:5px 0 0 0;
line-height:20px
}
.contentdiv a:hover, .contentdiv a{
text-decoration:none !important;
padding:0px;
}
.contentdiv p{
line-height:19px;
padding:0px 10px 0px 10px;
}
a.readMoreLink {
color:#555;
padding:4px;
background-color:#fff;
}
a.readMoreLink:hover {
color:#555;
text-decoration:none;
padding:4px;
background:#fff url('link_bg.gif') repeat-x bottom center;
}
.pagination{
width: 100%;
/*Width of pagination DIV. Total width should equal slider's outer width (400+10+10=420)*/
text-align: right;
padding: 3px 1px;
font-size:x-small;
background:#fff url('link_bg.gif') repeat-x bottom center;
border-top:1px solid #ccc;
}
.pagination a{
padding: 0 4px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #666;
background:#fff;
}
.pagination a.selected{
color: #fff;
background-color: #666;
}
.pagination a:hover{
color:#fff;
background:#666;
text-decoration:none;
}

In the XSL stylesheet each item is wrapped in a div, the class name for the div is pulled from the ‘Style’ column in the list. The make the styles work I added the following CSS to my stylesheet

.Red_Style{
height:230px;
background:#671818 url('red_bg.gif') repeat-x top center;
}
.Blue_Style{
height:230px;
background:#3A5E97 url('blue_bg.gif') repeat-x top center;
}
.Green_Style{
height:230px;
background:#4E8822 url('green_bg.gif') repeat-x top center;
}

All I am doing is changing the background image and color for each style. Because the div wraps each item it would be possible to also change font colors, font size, image position and more but I just wanted to keep it simple.

The only drawback with using the dataview webpart is that this webpart cannot be easily moved from one site to another.

Dave Cavins » content slider

#SharePoint Featured Content Slider Digitally Remastered for #SP2010

Whats new

The Code

Here is what you get

Dynamic Drive’s Featured Content Slider in Sharepoint