Comments on: Quote of the Day Web Part, Reprised – Part 2

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:27:58 +0000

@Dan: Do you mean registering at the EUSP.com site to download the WP?

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:01:34 +0000

(thanks!)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:00:49 +0000

Waldek – the jquerry source in this dwp give a pw challege:

(taken from the EUSP dwp download "quote of the day")

Is there another one to call (that doesn't have a password challenge?)

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:05:23 +0000

@Jeff: No problem. I hope my answer will help you make the choice.

By: Jeff Dalton

Jeff Dalton — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:06:44 +0000

Thanks for getting back to me, Waldek! I figured that was the case and I was stuck if I wanted to keep it simple.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:14:24 +0000

@Jeff: unfortunately that's the downside of using a List View Web Part for it. Another approach, that would be more suitable for lists with many items, would be to use SharePoint Web Services to retrieve the random quote. It would be more complex though.

By: Jeff Dalton

Jeff Dalton — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:49:54 +0000

The quote of the day stuff works great, however if the list is large (365 entries) the list view shows all the items very quickly before getting transformed by the code down to a single item. Changing the view limits the entries being selected. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!