Comments on: Showing random images in SharePoint 2007 using jQuery

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:37:58 +0000

Thanks to Twitter I was able to find a solution: var a = $("div.[id^=WebPartIDHere] table.ms-summarystandardbody td.ms-vb2 a:random");

Now to figure out how to display metadata columns from the list view ;)

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:25:59 +0000

"as far as I know every Web Part you drop on the page gets a unique ID. Using that ID you should be able to limit the slideshow to a single list."

Oh please tell me how to incorporate the unique wep part id :( I'm pretty sure that it has to be part of var a = $("table.ms-summarystandardbody td.ms-vb2 a:random"); but I cannot figure out how.

By: Servé Hermans

Servé Hermans — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:38:15 +0000

Even old posts are useful! Thanks for sharing.
One addition that might be useful as well could be the following article: http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/johnson_bert/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=20#EntryTabs

Bert uses the ddwrt function Random() and XSL to randomize and limit the results of a dataview or content by query web part. Great stuff as well.

Thanks for sharing!

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:08:43 +0000

All you have to do is to edit the Web Part and in the Appearance group, set the value of the Chrome property None. That should make the CEWP 'invisible'.

By: PS3

PS3 — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:54:50 +0000

Hi, Thanks for this post. I do little UI modification for the sites that work on and not a developer. I have done exactly the step you mentioned and was able to see the Image getting changes..but how do i hide the Content Web part…? Even after i delete the tile it shows as untitled in the page. Thanks for your help.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:00:18 +0000

@Praveen: I think I understand what you need. What I'm missing is the things that you've already tried and the things that you're stuck on.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:52:49 +0000

And i also need to say that am on WCM Publishing portal site development, and i had went with PageLayouts with custom content types. Using this Page Layouts the article pages will be created with Fields called Image,Title etc..

And for my landing page i need to have this webpart with Image rotation where the end user clicks shouls navigate to the Article Page if they likes the Image :) along with little description next to the image.

Hope i made you clear. Really your site shows me new way of easier approaches for developers.
Really like your site very Much.

Thanks.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:43:35 +0000

Hello Waldek,
Many thanks for the Quick reply !
And i need to have a webpart which should display images only randomly with the some set of interval from a custom list definition as well should navigate to the page where that actual image resides for click on the image.

Pls help me out since i had tried all the approaches in your site where this all are getting the images from Picture Library i believe.

Many thanks in advance.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:17:27 +0000

@Praveen: What is your challenge exactly? What have you already tried and at which moment are you getting stuck?

By: Praveen

Praveen — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:27:29 +0000

Hello Waldek,
Will you pls help me out how to get the same Image rotator functionality from a custom list for which am having 3 fields(Image attachment, Title, URL & Text)?
Thanks in advance !!!